Links For A Sunday Morning

• The joy of exclamation marks
  Exclamation marks used to be frowned upon. Now look what's happened! We use them all the time! Hurrah!!! But what is it about the age of email that gets people so over-excited?
• Let's Hear It for the Bees
  Flowers of a given species all produce nectar at about the same time each day, as this increases the chances of cross-pollination. The trick works because pollinators, which in most cases means the honeybee, concentrate foraging on a particular species into a narrow time-window. In effect the honeybee has a daily diary that can include as many as nine appointments - say, 10:00 a.m., lilac; 11:30 a.m., peonies; and so on. The bees' time-keeping is accurate to about 20 minutes.
• WhiteHouse 2.0
  WhiteHouse on the web.
• Mowing with goats
  Google is renting goats to mow fields at their headquarters instead of lawn mowers! and PETA On The Google Goats: Let Them Eat Grass (But They Need Perks)
• An analysis of your Masturbation timeline
• WHO fears pandemic is 'imminent'
  The UN's World Health Organization has raised the alert over swine flu to level five - indicating human-to-human transmission in at least two countries. It is a "strong signal that a pandemic is imminent", the WHO says.
  I keep telling...one of these days a flu is going to wipe out a lot of us.
• 100 days of Barack Obama's Facebook news feed
  This Facebook news feed bit is becoming a bit stale.
• Julie & Julia - Trailer
  Plot: The film follows Powell, a government employee who decides to cook her way through legendary cook Julia Child's classic cookbook, 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year's time out of her small Queens kitchen. Powell blogs her daily experiences, gaining a loyal following along the way.
• The Pizza Box of the Future Has Arrived
  Nice.
• Human landscapes from above
  Some stunning pics there.
• The Twitter Approval Matrix
  Our deliberately oversimplified guide to whose tweets are worth following.
• I'm an idiot and have just started listening to podcasts via TEDtalks. Any other recommendations?
  I listen to/watch - The Bugle, Cook's Illustrated, Fresh TV, Design Matters with Debbie Milman, Onion News, The Ricky Gervias Podcast, Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, Start Cooking, WYNC's Radio Lab and of course TED talks.
• Delivering on Change - a set on Flickr
  Pics from the Official White House photostream of Obama's 100 days in office. Some real good ones there.
• moot wins, Time Inc. loses
  This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title 'Worlds's most influential person, is moot'. What TIME doesn't say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time's incompetence.
• Comic - Swine Flu
  Twitter is great for watching uninformed panics unfold live :)