Okay, lame title, but I’m running out of clever things to say about bees dying off. I’m hoping that this will be my last post on “Colony Collapse Disorder” in the world of bees.

Colony Collapse Disorder, as I’ve previously reported, is the name given to the mysterious disappearance of bee colonies. One day everything is fine and the next - no bees! Poor bees. Why is this apocalyptic if you’re not a bee? Because bees play an important part in our food supply - it’s not just the honey, it’s the pollination. Without bees, may of our food crops won’t be pollinated and will not fruit properly. We won’t starve but we also will miss a lot of foods we currently eat.
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Having done my share of Jericho-bashing, I’ve still stuck with the show. I’m happy to admit that it has finally improved. It still has occasional cringe-worthy music, but the it’s finally showing people having a hard time getting by and having to make harder decisions than what to drink at the bar after the world has ended. In particular, dealing with the fact that you can barely take care of your own residents and now have a lot of refugees to feed and dealing with there being no legal system to help enforce contracts are both interesting problems.

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Back in February, I wrote about Norway’s Doomsday vault. Not to be outdone, the Brits also have a seed bank - the “Millennium Seed Bank”. It’s operated by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew - nice to see that they’re doing something other than just running an immense, beautiful botanical park which anyone visiting London should make sure to see.

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In the grand tradition of bands like Fleetwood Mac and Pink Floyd, rock stars Spinal Tap will reunite for the July 7th global warming benefit Live Earth. They’ll be performing at Wembley Stadium in London.
Rob Reiner is also putting together a 15 minute reunion film to be aired at the opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Ain’t It Cool News has a second review of 28 Weeks Later… this one is positive with a reservation. It’s also chock full of spoilers, so don’t read it if you don’t want a lot of details on the plot of the film!

Via: Via: 28 WEEKS LATER - Blissful infection or see a doctor and get rid of it?
[tags]28 weeks later, robert carlyle, review, zombies[/tags]

whoissick.org is providing a free web site for tracking sickness using Google Maps. If you’re feeling under the weather, load the site and enter your zip code and symptoms. If you want to find hot zones, go to the search page; you can go back up to 60 days in time and you can select for specific symptoms. The site’s done using Google Maps and is full of Ajaxy-goodness, so with a supported web browser it will update the map in real-time as you select different symptoms, without needing to reload.

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Dark Horizons offers some corrections from Fox about recent reports on Ain’t It Cool News which I’ve ranted about (er, covered) recently.

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The thing about the first Spiderman film was that Spiderman looked like Spiderman. More amazingly, he moved like Spiderman. He web-slinged (web-slung?). While it didn’t follow the original Spiderman stories to the letter, it captured the heart and soul of them and still kept an impressive number of details faithful.

The first X-Men film managed to largely do this as well… I didn’t think it was quite as successful, but at the time it felt like the most faithful comics adaptation I’d yet seen, especially considering how it had to deal with the excessively complicated long-term story of the X-Men. Plus, it managed to make fun of superhero suits.
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There’s no official word yet, but the rumor is that CBS is going to renew “Jericho” for another year of post-nuclear-annihilation angst. Perhaps next year the residents of Jericho will have to deal with nuclear mutants? That would be worth watching!

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Ain’t It Cool News offers up the first review of “28 Weeks Later” that I’ve seen thus far. The review is generally positive - in fact, the reviewer liked”28 Weeks Later” better than “28 Days Later” - the reviewer didn’t like the turn the original movie took when the cast encounters Christopher Eccleston’s military compound… feelings I share.

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