This happened to my friend while he was using my laptop a while ago. Here’s a video of the little guy in action.
I wish I had a spider on my screen. That’s how bored I am at work. It’s too cold outside for spiders or I’d go looking for one.
Get it a bug already!!
I’ve heard that it’s bad luck to give spiders a bad time. They can haunt you in your dreams and bite you in your waking hours.
I quite like to tease spiders by putting bits of paper in their webs and jiggling it with a twig. It’s hilarious to watch them come out of their hidey-hole (probably excited by the thought of a juicy fly), pick the litter up and throw it away as though they’re exclaiming ‘what the hell is this?!’
Perhaps I’m just easily amused…
The most interesting aspect of this experiment is: who will tire of the game first? The spider or the human? Which species has the better ability to stay focused?
I hates Spiders! I found a spider in my car today and I squirshed it with a kleenex and threw it in King Soopers trash!
{{shudder}}
Heh. Heh. No clear answer yet. It’s 7:20, he/she is ACTIVELY watching as I type this out, and…oh god hilarious, chasing the text across the screen. When I first booted up again, Jearl was not moving. I tried teasing him, and after a few moments, he woke up ( Do Spiders Dream Of Eight-Legged Sheep? 
), and is now his usual scampy self.
How can I get him a bug??? He doesn’t have a web. He has a Web. Which hs browses.
I’d say he’s more focused, I’m more amused. Never know. He might be more amused but I’m having trouble forcing myself close enough to see if he is smirking.
same freakin’ spider
Oh gosh. What are the odds of that??? What’s very cool is that she spins 180 as I move the curson in close quickly, and underneath.
There’s a Master’s Degree in this somewhere. I just know it.
I can see it now. I’ll take my Apple Cinema Display in to the Apple Store because there are ALL of these very tiny sub-pixel sized black dots. The Mac Genius will take a jeweler’s loupe and examine it, then sternly glare at me, exclaiming, " You’re one of those ArachnaSadists, aren’t you? You BASTARD !!! I’ve seen this before. " It’ll turn out to be tiny holes dug into the surface as she’s been striking over and over again.
Q: How many spiders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None, because I fucking hate spiders.
Well, it’s funny in my head.
…And in the morning he awoke to find a delicate spiderweb suspended between the mouse and the monitor. In the center of the web, neatly woven in block letters, was a message. It said:
SOME PIXEL
Spiders are not insects; they are arachnids, like cats and scorpions.
But in a war, they will side with the insects.
That is awesome. Thanks for the cool links. Too bad you don’t have a digital camera, most of them will take some few minutes of recording.
She looks like some sort of wolf or jumping spider: they have that basic body shape, and have very nice vision, since they track their prey visually.
If by “side with” you mean “kill and eat”, sure.
Spiders are our friends!
I was expecting bigger. Our spiders tend to be much larger, and I couldn’t help thinking WHY WHY is he letting a 3-inch spider WANDER AROUND his COMPUTER SCREEN but now I see it and I think it’s kinda cute.
Now I want a spider on my screen!
When I was young, I’d catch moths and throw them onto the web of this gorgeous, huge garden spider in my neighbor’s yard. That thing had enough food to last him years. It was such a cool thing to watch him zip out to the struggling moth and quickly wrap it up with thread.
One of those SOB’s bit/stung me last summer. It was on a bottle of water in my kitchen. Felt like a shard of glass going into my finger. Finger swelled up and I had a sore hard bump for 3 months after the sting. If you get close to the bastards they rear up on their back legs and threaten you. Rather than running away they jump at you. Pissed me off so bad, I called the exterminaters and gassed all the little bastards. These guys are so evil they kill and eat wasps :eek:
- Cartooniverse starts a thread stating that he is teasing a spider.
- He then takes a picture of it for proof and continues to train the spider to attack.
- Level-headed dopers all warn him that IT’S A FREAKING SPIDER, THEY’RE THE ENEMY!
- Cartooniverse ignores those warnings and continues to taunt the spider and update us on what is going on.
- Updates end.
- No one hears from** Cartooniverse ** again… ever.
Oh, and here is another video of a spider attacking a mouse.
Which I think is hilarious. “I don’t care if you’re 10,000 times bigger than me, I’m gonna kick your ass!” 
Of course I’ve never been bitten by one (at least that I know of - I have been bitten by spiders but never felt it - just found the evidence later on).