Ed Dowding

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!

Dissolution of the Long Parliament by Oliver Cromwell given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653

I’ve just finished watching the finale season of Scrubs. It’s been nice being the same as as them as they grow. Wonderful. Sigh.

Thanks to Martin Anazco for linking to this video about creating custom DNA which led me to this:

The Registry is a collection of ~3200 genetic parts that can be mixed and matched to build synthetic biology devices and systems. Founded in 2003 at MIT, the Registry is part of the Synthetic Biology community’s efforts to make biology easier to engineer. It provides a resource of available genetic parts to iGEM teams and academic labs.

Partsregistry.org and see also: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Protocols

This is rather neat, if a little scary. I just hope we can progress safely without jeopardising billions of years of evolutionary heritage. But nice one science, sharing information so well.