Happy 2010

Happy 2010, originally uploaded by gu@n.

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6 legs spider

spider with 6 legs, originally uploaded by gu@n.

Spiders are invertebrates, which means they don't have backbones. These small creatures help plants reproduce by pollinating them. They also help recycle dead trees and animals back into the earth. They are also a vital source of food for birds, fish, and small mammals. Without invertebrates, like spiders and insects, many other living things would not survive.



Spiders are not insects. Insects have three body parts and six legs.

Spiders have eight legs and two body parts, the abdomen and the thorax.

Spiders have silk spinning glands called spinnerets, at the tip of their abdomen.

Not all spiders spin webs. Spiders belong to the Arachnid family.

There are more than 30,000 species of spiders.

Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.

Most spiders have either six or eight eyes.

Most spiders have fangs, through which venom is ejected.

Opiliones are commonly called shepherd spiders, harvest spiders or harvestmen.

The term harvestmen or harvest spiders was a result of them being seen only during harvesting time. They are also referred to as daddy long legs but should not be confused with similarly named spiders, the Pholcidae.

Opiliones are not spiders and have no spinning organs, fangs or venom glands and are harmless to man.


Spider bites can be quite painful, and a select few can be fatal.

Fear of spiders is called Arachnophobia. It is one of the most common fears among humans.

Tarantulas shed their furry skin as they grow, leaving behind what looks just like another tarantula.

Spiders eat many types of harmful insects, helping to keep your garden free of pests.

Spiders are creatures that have 8 legs, have no wings or antennae. They have 2 distinct body parts called the thorax or head and the abdomen. Spiders have an exoskeleton, meaning that their skeleton is on the outside.

Spiders have as many as 8 eyes, but some spiders have only 6 eyes and several spiders have fewer or even none. All spiders have fangs through which venom is ejected. The tip of the abdomen has silk spinning glands called spinnerets by which a spider can spin a web. However, not all spiders spin webs.

Most spiders are very nearsighted. To make up for this, they use the hair on their body to feel their way around and to sense when other animals are near.

Webs get dirty and torn, so lots of spiders make a new one every day. They don't waste the old one, though--they roll it up into a ball and eat it!

Young spiders resemble adults. Only their size and coloration differ.

Male spiders are usually smaller than female spiders.

text by http://www.tooter4kids.com/Spiders/facts.htm

House of Franz Kafka

house of franz kafka

In house No. 22 Franz Kafka lived for a short period and also wrote parts of his works.
A small inscription on the right shows his name.

You may walk the Golden Lane freely and without entrance fee after 04.00 p.m.
BUT all the shops will be closed then, and so you may see the buildings only from outside.

On the other hand, you are able to take pics with an almost empty street.

butterfly effect

The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position. Quantum chaos is the study of the butterfly effect in semiclassical physics and quantum mechanics.It is a common subject in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

text : wikipedia

Beating up the Villai 打小人

Beating up the Villai 打小人, originally uploaded by gu@n.

打小人是一種流行於香港、广东民間的巫術儀祀。希望藉由此種巫術儀祀來驅逐、報復所謂的「小人」。

打小人就其目的而言可分為事前預防的消極性巫術與針對特定人士的積極性巫術，就其儀式則為模擬巫術與接觸巫術之混合。
委託人委託特定的拜神婆、喃嘸佬利用剪成人型的紙，紙上則視需求書寫特定人士資料或不寫任何資料，利用鞋子或其它物品毆打紙張來達到委託者之目的。
整個打小人儀式可分為八個部分：
奉神：利用簡單的香燭供奉天地神明。
稟告：將委託人之姓名、生辰八字等寫在百解靈符上。若欲打特定小人，則將特定小人之姓名、生辰八字、照片、衣物等可以代表特定小人身份之物書寫或放置於小人紙上。
打小人：利用各種象徵物如委託者或施術者之鞋、宗教象徵武器甚至是香枝或香煙等毆打、傷害小人紙。小人紙分為小人紙、男人丁、女人丁、五鬼紙等。
祭白虎：若在驚蟄日打小人則須祭白虎。以黃色的紙老虎代表白虎，紙身畫有黑色斑紋，口角則畫有一對獠牙。祭祀一般是使用小塊生豬肉沾上豬血，放入紙製白虎口中（餵紙老虎），當老虎吃飽後便不會再傷害人。而拜神婆亦會以肥膩的生豬肉抹在紙老虎的嘴上，使紙老虎口中充滿油水，使其不能再張口傷人。有些地方祭完白虎之後會將紙製白虎燒掉或用銅劍將紙製白虎的頭切掉。
化解：將一切污衊、災害等以撒芝麻、豆子等小物體或燒紙船、百解靈符等以消災解厄。
祈福：以紅色的貴人紙為委託者祈求貴人幫助。
進寶：將元寶、金銀紙等焚化供奉鬼神。
打杯：「擲筊」，將兩個半月形，一面平坦、一面向外彎出的木塊擲出。兩塊平坦向上則為陽杯，向下則為陰杯，一下一上為聖杯。出現聖杯表示儀式完成。