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!"

Fiona, that's great news about the baby girl! I am wishing much ~ma your way for a cooperative placenta and baby.

I know it's unusual, but a friend of mine (16 years ago) was all set to have a c-section due to a placenta covering the cervix and in the last 48 hours before she was due to be induced, the placenta moved up the uterine wall. I'm sure it's unusual, but I guess it can happen.

Harry Hamlin interviewed by TV Guide. . . non-spoilery for North American viewers of Veronica Mars.