Spiders on speed

Too much coffee today? The Wikipedia entry on caffeine has a great picture showing what can result from sharing your morning cup with a drowsy spider:

Caffeinated spiderwebs

Think about this next time you reach for another pot of joe to help you muddle through a particularly complex problem.

Of course, people are different from spiders, so the worst you might experience from coffee is

…restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, cardiac arrhythmia or tachycardia, and psychomotor agitation, gastrointestinal complaints, increased blood pressure, rapid pulse, vasoconstriction (tightening or constricting of superficial blood vessels) sometimes resulting in cold hands or fingers, increased amounts of fatty acids in the blood, an increased production of gastric acid…mania, depression, lapses in judgment, disorientation, loss of social inhibition, delusions, hallucinations and psychosis….”

Then again, how bad can it be for you if your company brews it and your boss encourages you to consume all the free coffee you want?

Drink up!