Meanwhile nature continues to fight back at the ever increasing onslaught of human population growth.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/07/brazil.dengue/index.html

And somewhere on the edge of the Mongolian Desert in a little lab a group of rougue scientist has just read the latest posts on TOD and have decided to speed up their research efforts to gave nature a little help. They have seen the writing on the wall and have realized that the world can no longer tolerate the western civilization. They have embarked on the only course for salvation, engineering lethal organisms for quick deployment into major western cities. Yeah, it may be science fiction, but not much more so than trying to maintain BAU by drilling for oil.

Actually, every time I have looked at our 24 hour site statistics, there is always ONE IP addy near Ulan Bator, Mongolia...perhaps it is said rogue scientist...;-)