BoingBoing introduced me to Tim and Eric about one year ago, through their commercial for B'owl! Thanks!

There are a number of other fantastic clips at the Adult Swim website; here's some particularly good advice from Dr. Steve Brule on Living.

Tim and Eric are also doing a tour of live comedy shows over the next few months -- check timandericawesomshow at myspace.

That Wired "Danger Room" post isn't accurate in at least 3 respects:

a) the motivation for this system is not bioterrorism but infectious diseases in livestock, especially bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow" disease) and avian flu, which pose a risk to human health;

b) agribusiness is not "excluded"; the "exemptions" mentioned might refer to the fact that individual animals in large groups are not required to be individually tagged if they are kept together throughout their lifetimes, which is reasonable if your goal is to identify and control infectious disease outbreaks;

c) swine are definitely included in the program.

At least these are the facts as laid out in the LA Times article, provided in the original post.

Th next time there's a mad cow or avian flu scare, this will seem like a no-brainer, especially given the price premium meat-eaters will pay to have the information that their animal flesh came from "certified disease free" sources...