In keeping with the current interest about swarms, herds and thinking en masse in general driven largely I think by Mark Earls getting his book out on the market about herds, I started thinking about my favorite exhibit of that swarm thinking: Starlings flying. Where I live there is a flock that sometimes fly in such a beautiful pattern that I have to stop and watch them (and then miss the bus). It is for me one of the wonders of the natural world. Not much to do with semiotics though. More to follow on Mark's really interesting thinking.
There are some great films on Youtube like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB42cYu0Agk
Wanted to also point out here, that I am away for the next week. Back on March 19th hopefully not having eaten too much Utah snow. Have a great week while I'm away.