Tonight was the 2nd time I worked with a guy who looks amazingly like Richard Dean Anderson. If you took RDA from 10-15 years ago and put his current hair on him, you would have this guy.

It's very distracting.

aurelia, I bet it's distracting.

Okay, that was a very Buffy (and Angel) episode of 24, anyhow.

Did anyone recognize two of the terrorists, of the group that was in Iowa? The one who had the girlfriend who called CTU played a member of the Council of Watchers that shut down Giles' Magic Shop in Checkpoint, and if I'm not mistaken, his superior -- the one who called Marwan, to say he thought the girlfriend was going to be a problem, was the guy who played Holtz.

Then there was The Inside promo. And then there was a scene, I think it was the scene where Logan (is it Logan--the guy from division who is now heading CTU) was telling Chloe she was going out into the field and she was refusing, but I can't remember, she sounded very Willowish to me. Then, in that final scene with Chloe and the gun felt oh so much like a Buffy power shot.

I didn't actually see the scenes in The Inside promo, just the "The Inside, coming soon on FOX," part of it. I have to check my TiVo, to watch it. I don't know how I missed it.

The locksmith has come and gone and I have a functioning back door again! Hurrah!

Yeah, Cindy & sumi, I was all go Chloe! I was afraid they were going to off her. She's so going to punch someone when she gets back to CTU.

And, hey!, no one got tortured this week. What's up with that?

Cindy, that was definitely Keith Szarabajka, I saw his name in the opening credits and was all "woo!" Plus, the technician Sabir, I think he was Mister "I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions".

24 continues to be appointment tv for me, one of like 3 shows I worry about seeing these days.

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24: It was like, what happens when a vampire hunter and a watcher go bad. I knew that Sabir guy looked familiar -- but couldn't place him. I agree that the end with Chloe and the gun was very Buffy-power shot end of opening credits like.

It's a cookbook!

Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.

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Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.

I need to KILL someone.

I do not need to start my mornings like this. Goddamned *&$#higher ups changing rules and not telling us. If my ass gets nailed to the wall for this one, I'm taking a few others out with me.

From tommyrot's cookbook story.

Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.

Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up resistance to it.

But the researchers at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, have found that adding the human touch gave the rice immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean that weeds could be kept down by constantly changing the chemicals used.

Great. Faaaaabulous. "We can only spray one poison at a time all over our crops! We wring our hands in despair!... But, wait! If we infuse our crops with essence of human liver, we can dump metric shitloads of poison all over them! We're brilliant!"