Uh-oh: rise of the doom-bees

Via Boing Boing: Scientists have demonstrated that honeybees can recognize human faces, sometimes for days. Adrian Dyer of the University of Cambridge and his colleagues trained the bees to associate photographs of particular human faces with a sugary treat. Later, five bees were able to pick out the right face from a group of others.

(ROYAL JELLY to QUEEN repeat ROYAL JELLY to QUEEN)

Worst. Christmas. Song. Ever.

As heard while waiting for Goblet of Fire, it's a new song from the Captain & Tennille called "Saving Up Christmas." And yes, it is every bit as wretched as you would imagine. Makes "Muskrat Love" sound like Beethoven's Ninth.

AFI's top 10 movies/TV shows of 2005

AFI can be pretty hit-and-miss when it comes to their all-encompassing "Top 100 Movies In Which the Main Character Must Avoid Being Eaten" or such lists, but their yearly top-10 lists have more hits than misses, it seems....

Movies
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Good Night, and Good Luck
A History of Violence
King Kong
Munich
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana
(And how many of these movies have made it here before last week? Two.)

TV shows
24 (...not this year, I don't think, and certainly not next year)
Battlestar Galactica (...whoa, gutsy call)
Deadwood
Grey's Anatomy (...?!? I'd substitute Arrested Development instead)
House (yuss!)
Lost (hrm)
Rescue Me
Sleeper Cell
Sometimes In April
Veronica Mars (rock!)