December 2010
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An Arachnid Alphabet
E - Euscorpius flavicaudis
On three continents
crawling, carrying children
like clones, translucent
now, but in six days darker,
small, but as fearsome as bees.
New Scientist: coolest animals of 2010. →
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Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Not So Carnivorous After All →
“These oddball dinosaurs have been the subject of much speculation” says Makovicky, “but until now, we have not had a reliable way to choose between competing theories as to what they ate.”
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D - Dolomedes fimbriatus
The surface tension,
so easily disrupted,
is a dinner bell,
a klaxon call to spring forth,
to thread hooks and cast lines out.
Happy Cephalopodmas! →
May you hold utter madness at bay on this holiest of days.
Wait, what’s that? I hear them on the stair! They’re coming! It won’t be long, now!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Antony and the Johnsons (32)
Elliott Brood (24)
Ennio Morricone (20)
My Brightest Diamond (14)
Dead Man’s Bones (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dracula orchids, goblin spiders. →
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C - Cyrtophora citricola
Maintain the grid, boys!
Secrete the cells in perfect
symmetry until
we’ve made this patch of jungle
our steel-wool metropolis.
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WatchWonderful doc.
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Loss of Arctic ice may promote hybrid marine... →
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B - Brachypelma smithi
O! Hang the red knees,
the urticating hairs tossed
like tiny harpoons!
In your palm’s well would I curl
sweetly, your nightmare kitten.
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Old news is sometimes good news. →
Beautiful new spider species discovered last winter. Perhaps it will make the Alphabet.
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A - Araneus cavaticus
Jointed bandy legs
to coax the thread in spirals,
to weave together
worlds by sunrise devoured,
and by sunset forged anew.
“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle...”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca 