Tuesday, September 08, 2009

David Bowie Gets a Spider Named After Him


From CBC News, a German spider specialist named a large, yellow, hairy spider from Malaysia after David Bowie. Story here.

5 comments:

Octopunk said...

I am sooooo jealous. I still think the best legacy would be to invent a word that became part of everyday language, but this comes in a close second.

Catfreeek said...

So cool, but I wish they had posted a picture of the spider.

Jordan said...

I'm on a work-related Ira Levin kick, so I got down my old original 1972 hardcover of The Stepford Wives and read it last night. (It's only like 145 pages long.)

Anyway Random House says this on the flap:

"It is one of those rare novels whose very title may become part of our vocabulary."

Score! That's got to feel great; both doing it, and getting it right beforehand like that. It's like when Steve Jobs actually holds up a machine and says, in so many words, "this device will change the industry," and then it actually does.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Jordan have I told you that I love you lately?

Jordan said...

When we finally meet, it'll be like McClane and Al at the end of Die Hard!

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