I'd really like to see Shake Hands with the Devil on Sunday (3:00), but other than that I don't know that I have time to see any of the other films. Count me in for Bleep, though.

I agree, later show is best... especially since the Global Visions Film Festival is on starting today and going through Sunday... anyone interested? I've got a couple of films in mind...

What the BLEEPdo we know? is playing at 7:00 or 9:15 on Saturday. My vote is for the later show as I work til 5 and may have deliveries or something to do after that. It was highly recomended by my Witchcraft/Occult prof, I'm looking forward to it.

Wired is carrying an article that brings up the glory of the genetic age: Roundup Ready Coca. It seems that the Colombian government (paid by the US in their war on drugs) sprays Roundup to get rid of coca plants. It also seems that a strain of "supercoca" (Boliviana negra, as the Colombians call it) has emerged, one that is Roundup Ready. Yay! The article goes through and determines that, at least the sample obtained, is likely the result of selective breeding, and not overt genetic engineering, but the premise that we've created supercoca remains somewhat ironic.

In fact, one might laugh at the US for indirectly creating this plant if not for two factors: i) the people that suffer through use of these drugs (and the indirectly caused violence in South American due to these drugs); and ii) the new plan for killing coca plants from the US -- mycoherbicides. "Last summer, documents show, anti-narcotics officials at the US embassy in Bogotá quietly approached Colombia's president, Álvaro Uribe, and asked him if he'd consider switching from Roundup to Fusarium oxysporum, a plant-killing fungus classified as a mycoherbicide." The downside? Well, it seems that in tests in Florida in 1999, Florida's environmental protection department determined that not only is the fungus a threat to food crops, it also is "difficult, if not impossible, to control." Clinton cancelled the program because unilateral use of the fungus might be considered biological warfare. But hey, anything to win the War on <insert noun here>.

Pfff, the people that made those don't know anything. Alaberta should be its own nation-state. Sweet home Alaberta!

Like I promised the special icon celebrating Bush's victory.