Hodgepodge

A few interesting items culled from the web.

Do I really need to preface this story with a note about how rife the internet is with errors? Probably not. But I'm still surprised to see that nearly 900 websites include the following quotation:

"Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

So what's the rub?, you might ask....well, it is attributed to a Harold Thurman Whitman. This particular Whitman doesn't exist! The real author of this quote is Howard Thurman.

Yikes.

On to our next story:



What you see above is a spiderweb made by a spider under the effects of that oh-so-safe drug caffeine. That's right! No wonder I'm always so jittery! Source Source 2 Amazon.com Listing of Original Source

It's the end of the semester and you might be able to tell that I'm beginning to go stir-crazy!