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AP: "Experts can now download a genetic blueprint from the Internet and use mail-order materials to assemble a deadly virus, say researchers who made a synthetic polio virus in the lab to demonstrate the threat."  John Robb: "One person with a $50K basement lab could declare war on the world, and make it an even fight." I've seen a spattering of comments about the fiasco at baseball's All-Star game earlier this week. Time for me to weigh in. First, the All-Star Game is total bullshit. It's an exhibition. It doesn't matter. It never did matter, and it's hardly the end of baseball as we know it when the managers, umpires and the commisioner of baseball don't respect it enough to allow it to be played like any other baseball game. No, ladies and gentlemen, the end of baseball as an honorable sport with a rich philosophy came with the Designated Hitter Rule of the so-called American League; and the final nail in the coffin was interleague play. Pitchers were meant to come to bat, so the opposing pitcher could throw at them, and the mystery of the two leagues matters. SJ Merc: "Sales of the Segway, priced at $8,500 each for now, have been anemic."  Heat wave continues. Recuperation continues. Tomorrow it will be four weeks of no smoking. I remarked to a friend yesterday that I was ready to be fully up to speed recuperation-wise, but my body isn't. It's kind of a bummer, I still have a few weeks before my strength is mostly back, according to the doctors and the literature. The heat wave is not a kind thing when one's body is so weak. It's a little cooler today and it will be cooler tomorrow. I wish I could swim, but I can't. Oy. I've been reading a lot, but really getting into Turner Classic Movies. Saw an interview with Howard Hawks, what a great director, and then watched a bunch of his movies. No commercials. What a deal. My favorite movie of the week was Lost Horizon, 1937, directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Coleman and Jane Wyatt. I want to go to Shangri-La.  On this day two years ago, Tom Matrullo did a fantastic brain dump on Napster on Doc's weblog. |
 
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