Our strange world

That eyeless pink whalebone eating worm, Osedax mucofloris, is giving me the creeps: "A further mystery surrounding the worm is that only females have been found, but in similar Pacific varieties the male actually lives inside the female existing only to fertilise eggs. " (Thanks to Bill for finding of this article: http://deepseanews.blogspot.com/2005/10/bone-eating-snot-flower.html).
So, my blog has revealed something already: upon hearing about this, friend Saad from Paris sent me his blogsite, and kaboom... there's Saad in mid gig on keyboards (and bass too?). I'd forgotten you played, Saad. And now everyone's coming out of the closet with their own established blogs that few have ever seen (Alan!). Well, great.
Time for a picture. Here's another of Ed Burtynsky's, from China: