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Sorry TC,
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Not all wasps are bad and they are important pollinators too.

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>> ^Fantomas:

Oh yeah baby! Work that Stamen!


Hilarious!

*timeshift indeed!

Thanks yet again Boise

In reply to this comment by Boise_Lib:
Definitely a *quality video.

Cheers dude

In reply to this comment by Lawdeedaw:
Is it sad that I wanted to crush the bird between my fingers? (Can't you tell my mood is foul? Been a long day at work.)

Nice to have a calming vid. : *promote

>> ^EMPIRE:

the honey color is so different from region to region (and obviously in different countries).
a grea-uncle of mine is a beekeeper in his spare time, and every once in a while he sends me a whole honeycomb extracted from a single foundation like the ones they showed in this video. I have a half-eaten one in the kitchen right now, and it's sooo much darker.
Honey is great!


There was a place in Brooklyn where maraschino juice and honey were being made nearby to each other. At some points the bees would produce red-coloured honey. It was a big mystery until they put it together that the bees must be getting at the maraschino syrup while out pollinating.

My tomato plants flowers are opening up, I will have to pollinate them soon manually, as I do not have bees around. 26 inches is the tallest point on the plant. I grew them from seed starting around Christmas time, everything else is well but those tomatoes shot right up ~!

Ya know there is lots actually up, maybe thats why its so quiet.

I wanna do a quote from him:

"I have a friend who's an artist and he's sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'Look how beautiful it is,' and I'll agree, I think. And he says, 'You see, I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you, as a scientist, oh, take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing.

And I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me, too,I believe, although I might not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is; but I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time I see much more about the flower that he sees. I can imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside which also have a beauty.

Also, the processes, the fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting - it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: Does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which shows that a scientific knowledge only adds to the excitement and mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds; I don't understand how it can subtract."

This applies to art vs. science, religion vs. science, basically anything vs. science. Science only adds.

the world needs more humming birds !

hey wouldn't they do the same thing bees do? I mean pollinate . YAY HUMMINGBIRDS.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Hmm, out-Digg Digg Video. nah.

Good points raised about cross-pollination though.

Honestly- I've got about 4 or 5 other sites that I go to to look at Videos, and maybe find interesting stuff that we've looked over. I'm just solving my own problem of not wanting to deal with 5 different interfaces. I honestly thought to myself "it would be nice to see what videos other sites are publishing" .

I played with feeds but always had to click through to the sites to watch the video.

Laziness is the mother of invention in this case. I do believe that aggregators are the best way to find interesting content at the moment. Granted, we are the best - that goes without saying- but I do sometimes see interesting stuff on other sites that would make good inclusions to the Sift.

It might help with quality, or it might not. I think if VS users start looking for videos at Scrape Up to post, it will make this place more like the other aggregators because it will tend to homogenize all the aggregator sites. I think it's bad enough as it is when certain sifters treat their queues as RSS feeds from Digg

Think about it: If the people at I-Am-Bored and Milk And Cookies start going to Scrape Up to upload videos we've already sifted here, and then we have people here grabbing videos from those sites via Scrape Up, and then the Diggers and Stumblers start marking a lot of the videos at Scrape Up, then the content will start to become more uniform at all those sites, including ours. And to me, brothers and sisters, that would make this place boring.

Now one could argue that even without Scrape Up there's a lot of 'cross-pollination' going on already, and I wouldn't disagree with that. I've already seen a number of our popular videos suddenly get front-paged at I-Am-Bored and College Humor, for example. However I see Scrape Up significantly accelerating that process, especially as it grows in popularity.

Now I am not TOO concerned, because this place has enough members who've found their own little niche in which they post videos that are well outside the mainstream. However, even if a few of those obscure videos start getting picked up by the other sites, then I think VS might lose the biggest edge it has always had: Its IMMENSE variety. How many other sites have Dr. Who getting Rick-rolled, Stephen Colbert, Manila's City of Garbage, the history of the string bikini, and beautiful Slovenian caves, all on the front page at the same time? But if even one or two of those got front-paged at other sites because they conveniently found them at Scrape Up, then I think it decreases our competitive edge.

Of course everything I just wrote could be the ether talking and not me.
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Fess up, dag: Are you attempting to out-Digg Digg Video?