And speaking of Interweb distractions, I stumbled on this complete online version of Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion (scroll down a little).  If you’re wondering, Muybridge is the guy who settled, once and for all, the question “Do all four of a horse’s feet hooves leave the ground when it hits full speed.”  He figured this out by setting up a series of cameras along a race track, and firing them in sequence, so that he had a picture of every moment of a horse’s stride.  The verdict?  They sure do leave the ground.

The interesting thing about Animal Locomotion is that while half of the book is devoted to animals in various states of motion, the other half is people (and everybody knows people ain’t aminals) in various states of undress, like the above example.  Muybridge was also the subject of an opera by Philip Glass called The Photographer.