How much like a bee are you? Have you been sprayed with any pheromones lately?

It seems that odor might play a significant part in honeybee life and in yours too. There have been a lot of articles written about this.

Could you say that a taser feels like a sting? Tasers are not just for the police anymore. They also come in electric blue, metallic pink, titanium, and black pearl. How sexy is that? Doesn't that just reek of pheromones?

As personal tasers become part of the electric generation's collection of gadgets, we could all become clean slates all of the time. Yep, members of the clean slate club. Attention deficit disorder pales in comparison to blank slate. Bees aren't the only creatures with problems in the adverse learning arena.

Think of the life of a worker bee. Now think of the life of human workers. Now touch your toes...just kidding.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was some hidden "smell" that put people under the spell of the "hive commander"? All you would need do each day would be to obey, no thinking required.

A worker bee works and works until it dies. It never seems to understand that work is its only reward, as the beekeeper keeps taking the honey away from the hive, cleaning up and cleaning them out regularly. Even if they understood, would that change anything for the bees?

The beekeeper would laugh at the silly thought that bees even care.

Software makers would laugh that people might want to get paid for finding software flaws. WabiSabiLabi is a Swiss company that "will sell details on unpatched software flaws". The site is currently offering details on four bugs in products such as the Linux kernel and Yahoo Messenger. No bids have yet been registered, but asking prices for the research ranged between €500 and €2,000. "

The odd thing is that there is some debate about whether this is a moral, just, and fair way to conduct business and life. Isn't it just an honor to be able to help "beekeepers" make honey money? They always say thank you, worker bees for your help.

The thing is, I can't remember when one of these business giants gave away their product.

Do I sound cynical? None of your beeswax.