You’re stuck with ‘em for now, I can’t be bothered.
It’s Sea Monster Week at Tetrapod Zoology.
Caenorhabditis elegans lacks eyes, yet sees, per The Other 95%.
A Neatorama trifecta, as they bring us the giant rubber energy-crisis-solving snake, the Nietzsche Family Circus, and I Met the Walrus.
I’ve been trying to reunite myself with this record, Bush Baby by Arthur Blythe, for a long time.
Museth Myrmecos:
In truth, honey bees are the rats among pollinators. Cute and fuzzy though the bees may be, our heavy subsidy of a single-species bee monoculture is undoubtedly a factor in the spread of invasive weed plants and the decline and extinction of scores of other bee species. Our native bees, fine pollinators in their own right, are having to compete against syrup-boosted truckloads of industrial honey bees at the same time as we bulldoze their habitat for new housing, and they aren’t faring well.
For this reason I just can’t get worked up over “colony collapse disorder“ [click through, this is hyperlinked at the original post-sl]. Yes, I know farmers need the pollinators, and that colony collapse disorder is adding to the already high cost of food. But this problem is not some unforseen tragedy of nature. It’s not even about nature. It’s about a predictable byproduct of industrial agriculture.
Plus, he takes really good pictures of them (and lotsa other stuff too).
Why We’re Powerless to Resist Grazing on Endless Web Data by Lee Gomes for the Wall Street Journal. See, it’s not even our fault.
Comcast paid a bunch of shills to cheer for their guy, and to occupy seats that could may otherwise have gone to journalists or the actual public, at the FCC hearings on net neutrality. Consumerist, Save the Internet Blog (via BoingBoing), ZDNet, Portfolio dot com (via /.), Valleywag.
Mutant Sounds, which I found out about because it won an award, which I found out about because it was geblogkt by Avant Music News. I live in constant fear of the day that you guys (both of you) start reading Avant Music News for yourselves. Until then, he’s got a few best-of-aught-seven lists here and here. But seriously, it’s like Eurypterids never even existed over there.
It’s coming out of your speaker. Lots of Lee “Scratch” Perry on top at press time.
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