If any of you are antique electronics scavengers, you’ve got competition; NASA’s buying on E-Bay. Other innovative government ideas in today’s news: Bees as bomb-sniffers. Non-governmental ideas: how about an alternative to Microsoft’s Office which comes at a very good price? Or, really, at no price at all; yup, it’s free and open-source. Yet another idea: hamsters to read text messages on your cellphone. [Squ]EEK!
DNA research is intriguing for many reasons, not the least of which is historical; new studies shed light on Jewish history. More history: tourists threaten 16th-century ship in Sweden.
Political blog ahead: LyingInPonds attempts to score the political punditocracy by partisan leaning. I picked it up from Mr. Kurtz at Media Notes.