Lexical Compendium
Wait... what is this? Sometimes I come across a word, phrase, idiom, quote, reference, bit of slang, person of interest, etc that either I don't know or I find amusing, interesting, etc. This is a collection of those items so that I can refer back to them in emails, texts, etc.
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Bees?
There is a "Cards Against Humanity" card that simply reads: "Bees?" It's so fatuous that it has become a common expression for me.
Some on the internet believe that this is a reference to an "Arrested Development" episode.
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- Cards Against Humanity Reference ID cards-against-humanity
- Arrested Development clip - perhaps the origin of the card Reference ID arrested-development-clip
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stigmergy
From Wikipedia:
Stigmergy was first observed in social insects. For example, ants exchange information by laying down pheromones (the trace) on their way back to the nest when they have found food. In that way, they collectively develop a complex network of trails, connecting the nest in an efficient way to various food sources. When ants come out of the nest searching for food, they are stimulated by the pheromone to follow the trail towards the food source. The network of trails functions as a shared external memory for the ant colony.
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- Wikipedia: Stigmergy Reference ID wikipedia-stigmergy
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