The Venus flytrap (also Venus's flytrap or Venus' flytrap), Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the United States. It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids— with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value.
We were listening to Rock the Casbah from The Clash and we felt like dancing.
I took my shirt off, spinning it around like a helicopter when the accident happened.
I'm a big fan of The Clone Wars.
Last month I've been watching the first three seasons and studying the Wookieepedia.
This week I'm starting Season 4. Here's an interesting trailer.
My favorite Clone Wars Lego set is 9515 - the Malevolence. I've been looking for this set for a decent price at Toys'r'us and El Corte Inglés but to no avail (I've found no prices below €140). I think I'm getting mine at ebay.co.uk for £79.99.
Meanwhile watch this set review at Brick Show TV. This guy is a genius, no doubt.
«Would you like to learn Polygon? Piet Hein has constructed a game that can be practised with equal joy by the chess expert and one who is merely able to hold a pencil.»
Politiken magazine, December 26, 1942
In this match I had the red pieces. The white ones belonged to... a ... prehistoric dinosaur!!!
«The game was invented by the Danish mathematician Piet Hein, who introduced it in 1942 at the Niels Bohr Institute. It was independently re-invented in 1947 by the mathematician John Nash at Princeton University.»