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It can be a little alarming to look out over a meadow at morning and see all the spider webs, made visible by droplets of dew. Right now, hardly a bush nor clump of wild grass isn't crowned by the bizarre, double layered web of the Bowl-and-Doily Spider (an insect is knocked out of the air by the tangle of webs above, then falls into the bowl below, where the tiny spider is waiting). When the dew evaporates, the webs disappear -- you'd never even know they're there!
Credit: Michael Schramm/USFWS
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
- Edwin Way Teale
What is social networking?
Our level of interconnection has become highly efficient. Due to the world wide web, and to sites like the one we all love and use every day, sociality is now something hardly recognizable with our old analogic parameters. Distant people get in touch so easily, make friends, sometimes fall in love with the simplicity of a couple of clicks.
But it's only apparently something light-weighted. So often those friendships get more important and firm than physical ones, so often those loves are so powerful and overwhelming to decide destinies.
Why this boring preamble? Yesterday my distant friend Vanesa has decided to left Flickr. Not a major concern, 'cause we talk every day since we met, outside of Flickr; but this fact brought me to realize how these modern-day-weapons of communications and sharing rules our lives, and condition - in good and bad - our daily behaviour patterns.
Maybe you're true, Vanesa. And I'm still using the source of all pain.
الملكة رانيا خلال مشاركتها في قمة "الويب" 2022
لشبونة، البرتغال / 2 تشرين الثاني 2022
Queen Rania at the Web Summit
Lisbon, Portugal / 2 November 2022
© Royal Hashemite Court
A familiar building for Calgarians, with an interesting twist... Sometimes you get lucky with just the right timing...
The Nursery web spider is a common spider of grassland and scrub, and is often seen sunbathing among Brambles and Stinging Nettles. The adults are active hunters and do not spin a web to catch food, instead using a quick sprint to capture flies and other insects. The female carries her large, round egg-sac in her fangs. When the young are about to hatch, she builds a silk sheet among the vegetation to act as a tent, sheltering them until they are old enough to leave on their own.