such a lovely and delicate web was there to greet us
a welcoming art installation created by a spider
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‘the bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.’
-william blake, poet
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blake suggests that as birds create and live in nests, and spiders create and live in webs, so humans create and live in friendships. it suggests friendship is as complex, natural, and beautiful as the first two.
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photo credit: thank you, cws
the trojan room coffee pot – action shot
the trojan room coffee pot was a coffee machine located next to the old computer lab of the university of cambridge, england, which in 1991 provided the inspiration for the world’s first webcam.
to save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty, after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up, providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network. after the camera was connected to the internet, a few years later, the coffee pot gained international notoriety as a feature of the fledging world wide web, until it was retired in 2001.
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“a watched pot never boils…. but it does develop paranoia”
― josh stern
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credits: cambridge university
as the cousins
find ways to stretch their line
they hang on tight
to see just how far they can go
and still be connected.
even the one who resists
cannot escape their web.
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“all things are connected like the blood that unites us.
we do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it.
whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”
– chief seattle
I didn't have my glasses on.... 