CityRag Style Post #1

• Have you ever seen the very first picture taken from the surface of Mars? Here it is, taken July 20, 1976.

• The World Conservation Union's 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released today informs us that the most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered" and one step away from global extinction.

• For the first census since 1871, unmarried people over 15 outnumber the marrieds. Plus, there are more couples without children than with.

• Two weekends ago we discussed whether spiders would ever build large webs together instead of individual ones. We stoner concluded that this wasn't in their nature after transporting spiders from their webs onto others' and watching them scurry away as fast as they could. Okay, the exercise was also dubbed as USF: Ultimate Spider Fight. Well, turns out, under the right conditions, spiders do make giant scary webs together.