Yesterday, someone mentioned the out-of-print Douglas Adams book "Last Chance to See," a nonfiction recounting of his world tour of searching for critically endangered animals. I went and looked up the conservation status of all of the animals in the book . . .

Ten later, I had sixteen Wikipedia tabs open: the Yangtze river, the Three Gorges megadam, historical Chinese dam failures, Chinese hanging coffins, etc. etc. etc. Meanwhile, I was texting pictures of coconut crabs and giant isopods to all my friends.

This thing lives on Earth, and in no small number:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

Peace

Ty