Tired: big electric utilities gouging their customers -- Wired: distributed generation.

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From MIT Tech. Review: Startup: Designer Life:

"Since synthetic biologists engineer genomes from scratch, instead of modifying naturally occurring ones, they should be able to create proteins and cells with novel and complex capabilities. Synthetic biologists say they want to design and build genomes in the same way that electrical engineers make integrated circuits. 'They've been doing large-scale integrated circuits since I was a kid. Now we're trying to do large-scale integrated biological circuits,' says Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church, Codon [Devices]' cofounder and chief scientific officer."

Hmmm. Viruses have much smaller genomes than organisms made of cells. I wonder if Codon Devices has been approached yet by the CIA or Pentagon or any foreign governments.

Washington Post: Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs:

"Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush was being stubborn with his American captors, and a series of intense beatings and creative interrogation tactics were not enough to break his will. On the morning of Nov. 26, 2003, a U.S. Army interrogator and a military guard grabbed a green sleeping bag, stuffed Mowhoush inside, wrapped him in an electrical cord, laid him on the floor and began to go to work. Again.

It was inside the sleeping bag that the 56-year-old detainee took his last breath through broken ribs, lying on the floor beneath a U.S. soldier in Interrogation Room 6 in the western Iraqi desert. Two days before, a secret CIA-sponsored group of Iraqi paramilitaries, working with Army interrogators, had beaten Mowhoush nearly senseless, using fists, a club and a rubber hose, according to classified documents."

We can't claim we didn't know this was going on.

New England Journal of Medicine article: Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Where's the outrage?