The discoverers of many of these "new" species are already declaring them "endangered." Let's hope we don't lose them too quickly.

Sounds like a great book -- but what a terrible title! Talk about marketing only to a tiny, in-the-know audience...

How do you holster (and draw!) a gun like that?

Geez, the thing lives that long and science comes along and kills it. Not fair at all.

Beck has the world's worst advertising slogan: "He says it like he means it."

Seriously?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnplatt/1356982850/

I have issue 8, and I've been waiting on this one for months. Can't wait to snag me a copy.

"would prohibit a person from requiring, coercing, or compelling any other individual to undergo the subcutaneous implanting of an identification device,"

I was worried that "a person" meant the law would not apply to corporations or government agencies, but the bill itself takes care of that:

“Person” means an individual, business association, partnership, limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, estate, cooperative association, or other entity.

Hoo boy do I wish I'd read this a few days ago. I got an invite and responded, and was burned. Luckily, I used an address book with only a dozen or so addresses, but still... annoying!

So Bluto is Judas. Makes sense...