(image) Look, as a reformed Wired editor, I love stories that are totally unpredictable but, upon reflection, make perfect sense. So when I read that cell phone signals are confusing and killing bees, and that may explain the global die-off that is happening in bee populations, I thought “well ain’t that just too frickin’ perfect.” We are almost at the point of no return when it comes to dependence on smartphones. Yet they may well be killing us, eventually, not through cancer, but through our food supply, by way of losing a key element, the bees. Can we fix it? Will we?

Cell Phones Are Killing The Bees: Study (FC) Who the hell could have predicted this? This is just …. too strange and too scary and too…real. If the bees die, we may not be far behind.

Blog: Quick Stat: Google to Grab 43.5% Share of US Online Ad Revenues This Year (eMarketer) That sounds about right.

Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg (Bweek) Beware the ides of China. Just ask Sheryl’s last employer, Google.

Female Bloggers Eager for Brand Sponsorships (MP) If you want to connect to the best of them, talk to FM.

How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US (Yahoo) Wow. Talk about a treasure trove.

Facebook Busted in Clumsy Smear on Google (DBeast) Holy backfire, Batman! I look forward to getting the real backstory here.

This is Your Brain on Banner Ads (DigiDay) Well, these are your eyes anyway.

Blitzen Trapper – Maybe Baby a single from this new sub pop… (Bijan) It’s Friday….

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