April 2010
10 posts
buzzing bee ball
The great adversary of the Japanese-bred European honeybee is the Japanese giant hornet. When a hornet scout finds a colony of Japanese-bred European honeybees, it leaves a pheromone trail, which attracts a squad of other hornets. The hornets come and ravage the colony; a typical squad of 15 or so of these hornets will wipe out a colony of bees in a couple of hours. A single hornet is the size...
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
“Our economy has reached a logical conclusion. The race to make average stuff for...”
– His brilliance, Seth Godin. (Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?)
A beginning, a middle, and an end.
Someone suggested to [James] Joyce that he could avoid legal trouble by publishing an expurgated version of his novel Ulysses, doing away with the passages deemed offensive. Joyce turned to him and replied: “My book has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Which would you like to cut off?”
Thanks to my aunt Jean, for sending me this.