Alan Irwin’s Blog

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) has become one of my favorite senators. Not only is he the bulldog chair of the Judiciary Committee, now he’s scheduled to perform a cameo role in the current Batman movie franchise. The sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins, the new movie is called The Dark Knight and is planned to be [...]

How about a paint that will make a room secure against Wi-Fi? Basically, the idea would be to keep your Wi-Fi signals (think cell phone or wireless internet) from getting out where anyone could eavesdrop on them.
EM-SEC Technologies, a company in North Carolina, has developed the paint and has successfully tested it. I don’t have [...]

Ben & Jerry’s is recalling 250,000 pints of their Country Peach Cobbler Ice Cream. It’s a voluntary recall due to their discovery that wheat wasn’t listed in the ingredient label but is in the product. This is only a risk to those with severe sensitivity to wheat, but the company decided to recall the product.
The [...]

This is a composite picture of Saturn taken from ‘behind’ by the Cassini spacecraft. The sun is being blocked by the planet, and so the rings are particularly vibrant.
This is a unique view of Saturn, only available from a spacecraft, like Cassini, flyng past the planet. Thanks to this perspective, they’ve already discovered two new [...]

I haven’t yet talked about the Day Fire that’s burning in the area. As of Tuesday, the fire was up to 85,000 acres, and was only 30% contained. Until this weekend, it was just another brush fire in the SoCal area. But then, the offshore winds picked up, the size of the fire jumped up, [...]