THIS FAVORITE MOVIE MONSTERS LIST seems incomplete to me.

PROGRESS: Novel ‘antisense’ therapies protect primates from lethal Ebola and Marburg viruses. “New studies show that treatments targeting specific viral genes protected monkeys infected with deadly Ebola or Marburg viruses. Furthermore, the animals were protected even when therapeutics were administered one hour after exposure — suggesting the approach holds promise for treating accidental infections in laboratory or hospital settings.”

WILL INCREASED CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS blow a hole in the economy?

PROGRESS: A ‘Kill Switch’ for Rogue Microbes.

THOUGHTS ON being a 20-something.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: IBM makes world map 1000 times smaller than grain of sand.

SO SHOULD I SHORT MY WINDEX STOCK? Self-cleaning technology from Mars can keep terrestrial solar panels dust free.

BESTSELLING BOOKS on military history.

PJTV: Brandi Milloy On The Border.

SPREADING: Bedbugs In The Empire State Building.

UPDATE: A D.C. connection: A reader emails: “Please don’t use my name if you mention this but bedbugs have arrived in Washington, D.C. A colleague of mine who lives on Capitol Hill has a confirmed bed bug case in her house. She said that two of her friends have them, too. They’re spreading.”

MORE: A reader emails:

I have seen several bedbug posts on instapundit, but nothing on how to avoid spreading them yourself. I got bedbugs on a business trip last year and they are horrible to get rid of (took about 3-6 months of monthly spraying by an exterminator at ~$1000). So, how do you keep from getting bed bugs? It is not a cleanliness issue, so don’t think you are immune if you keep your house in relatively clean order (my wife keeps our house fairly immaculate).

1. _Never_ put your suitcase on the bed at a hotel. This is an open invitation for the bugs to crawl into your suitcase, and then crawl out when you put the suitcase on your bed at home. Use the suitcase stands that all hotels have. Bedbugs don’t like crawling up metal.
2. If you want to be really paranoid (as I am, now), leave the suitcase in the garage (or somewhere else outside the house) when you get home. Wash everything you have in your suitcase in hot water and dry it in hot air before bringing into your bedroom. 120 degrees F is the magical number for killing the *@&#&#. Generally bedbugs transport in cloth and wood. They will not usually transport on you (though they occasionally will).
3. Realize that different people react differently to bed bugs. My home infestation got to be really bad because we let it go for a couple of months. I react immediately and quite badly to bites. My wife does not react at all, so we never considered that we were getting bit by bed bugs until it was a couple of months too late. At that point, the bugs had spread into our kids’ rooms, etc. If you are getting bit by something in bed, check for bugs quickly. If you are getting bit, do not move to another bed in the house. This does nothing but cause the bugs to look for a new food source, which they will eventually find in your new sleeping spot.

I am always happy to find any way to kill a couple more bedbugs. There are few things I more passionately dislike… :)

If you post this, please don’t use my name…

You know, all these requests for anonymity make me think that if we’re going to conquer the Bedbug Plague, we need to put an end to the shame!

BIG-BROTHER TRASH CARTS CAN TELL IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN RECYCLING. I recommend “recycling” some tar and feathers.

LARRY RIBSTEIN: The Future Of The Company, and the Uncorporation.

A “PRE-DEATH FUNERAL?” It’s not just for Tom Sawyer.

USING NANOWIRE TRANSISTORS to monitor inside cells.

A DISASTER-PREPAREDNESS REMINDER: Los Angeles ‘Big One’ Could Come Sooner Than Expected: Study. More on earthquake preparedness, here. Also here. Remember, when disasters strike, it’s usually “unexpectedly.”

LAST WEEK’S PRINTER POST produced this email from reader Michelle Dornath-Mohr: “Thanks for putting up the bleg on printers last week. We ended up getting the Brothers laser you recommended and my student is happily using it in her dorm room. We played with it here at home over the weekend and had so much fun that I’m looking at replacing my ink hog HP with a Brother color laser — either the HL-3070CW or the HL-3040CN.”

BAILOUT TRANSPARENCY NEWS: Fed Loses Bid for Review of Bailout Disclosure Ruling. “A U.S. appeals court refused to reconsider a ruling that requires the Federal Reserve Board to disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout. The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York, in a docket entry dated Aug. 20, denied a May 4 request by the Fed to review its unanimous March 19 decision requiring the agency to release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.”

FROM ORIN KERR, some advice for new law teachers.

HISTORY: Postwar British Socialism and the Fabian Society. “Prices controls and rationing of consumer goods continued for years after the war. Labour‘s postwar program of nationalization was the fruit of many decades of intellectual activism by the Fabian Society, a democratic socialist movement long led by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, and George Bernard Shaw. In Labour‘s 1945 election victory, over 200 members of the Fabian Society were elected to Parliament. The shift from the doctrine of free markets and free trade to the doctrine of extensive government control was partly caused by the influences of the Fabian Society in Great Britain.”

IF THE GENES FIT, YOU MUST BLOG IT. Er, or something. With further thoughts from Ed Driscoll.

IN THE MAIL: From Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: and other controversial essays.

IF YOU MISSED IT ON SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO this weekend, the latest PJM Political is online.

HMM: Appetite and destruction: global food insecurity and speculation in agricultural commodities. “If financial crises tend to generate legal earthquakes, food crises can overthrow entire political systems. Food security may not register as a major political issue in the United States, but for the leadership of countries like China and India it may be the most important issue of all.”

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: Masculinity was to blame. Yeah, when I look at Barney Frank and Chris Dodd — and Tim Geithner — all I think of is testosterone.

MOE LANE on the spread of evil.