Neil Young Gets His Own Spider - Neatorama

62-year-old rocker Neil Young has been honored with his own species, a trapdoor spider named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.

An East Carolina University biologist, Jason Bond, discovered a new species of trapdoor spider and opted to call the arachnid after his favorite musician, Canadian Neil Young, naming it Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi.

"There are rather strict rules about how you name new species," Bond said in a statement.

"As long as these rules are followed you can give a new species just about any name you please. With regards to Neil Young, I really enjoy his music and have had a great appreciation of him as an activist for peace and justice."

The new species was found in Alabama in 2007. Link -via Geek Like Me

(image credit: Reuters)

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Keep on rocking in the free web. I'm sorry, that was terrible.

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A creepy animal named after a creepy animal. How fitting.

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I want a species named for me. That'd be awesome.

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I like Neil Young's music too, but this seems kind of dopey to me. I prefer the old days when men in bushy white beards picked Latin phrases or obscure Greek myths. Just seemed more timeless than some dude who just happens to like Neil Young.

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Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi?

Reminds me of that Channel 9 sketch on "The Fast Show"...

Buono estente.... Trap Door Spider... Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi... Boutros Boutros-Ghali!

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Kit Kat and other chocolate stuff.

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While I'm not a coffee person, I will say that Carr Valley Bread Cheese is AMAZING. Throw it in a frying pan (srsly) until it gets a little bit of a crust, and eat it warm with some plum jam on top. You have no idea how good that is. Mmmmm...

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Leipäjuusto (bread cheese) is made from cow milk. Sometimes, but very rarely, it can be made also with reindeer milk but it is Lapland speciality.

I have never heard anyone dipping leipäjuusto in coffee; it sounds more like extremist :) normally the cheese is eaten with cloudberry jam or warm caramel.

EDIT: actually wikipedia states that it can be also served with coffee but it could be swedish invention.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leip%C3%A4juusto

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During Christmas when there were Christmas cookies everywhere I was completely addicted to dipping chocolate chip cookies in my morning coffee. I don't know that's weird but it was heavenly...

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Cookies. But I guess that's not really "weird" since it's basically the same as dunking Biscotti. If I'm out of creamer I sometimes add some ice cream to my coffee, but I guess that doesn't really count as dunking.

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Thanks for the link! Looks like I'm going to have to track down some more stuff made with reindeer, since they seems to have a special bond with coffee.

Also, I second dipping Kit Kats and cookies in coffee. Mmm mmm mmm.

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As a kid, I worked in a retirement home where one elderly couple put butter in their coffee instead of cream; a holdout habit from the Depression.

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Nothing really weid.

But Oreos + Coffee= AWESOME

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I tend to eat like crap when I have marathon study sessions, so my favorite "snack" while I'm studying is usually coffee + cheez-its. I don't dunk them in the coffee, but it does make 'em taste a lot better for some reason.

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Come to think of it, cheese in general just tastes better with coffee.

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At a party I tried the combonation of surf clam sashimi with onion dip, and it went surprisingly well.

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Cubans dip cuban bread into their cafe con leche (cuban coffee with milk). I hate soggy bread so I don't.

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I used to work with this guy who ate olive loaf sandwiches every day for lunch and he'd dip it in his coffee before he took a bite. I guess he was edgy and ahead of his time, and I should have seen that instead of sitting there being grossed out by it, huh?

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Young guy at work today was drinking a large Dunkin' Donuts & eating beef jerky, literally chewing the jerky while swilling coffee. That ain't right.

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Cinnamon or Cardamom, both good but use sparingly. I also recommend using with a filter, not a press.

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I have acquired a taste for mixing chai tea with my coffee. It makes for a whole lot of flavour in one mug.

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I put cold rice in my coffee once. There was only one bowl left and I needed to microwave both, so I thought "why not?"

Yeah. Don't do that.

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I once worked at a cafe for a few weeks. It was inside of a flea market that went out of business a few months later. One of the "fleas" used to come in and ask for his coffee and then proceed to put Parmesian cheese in the coffee.

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I like tea.

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