links for 2010-08-13

"Colorado teenager learns the hard way never to leave a day-old peanut butter sandwich in his car"

I know this all too well.

"“I get it every year; I’m like a culture medium for the stuff,’’ said Maypole, a Newton resident. “It grows in parks, in yards, along streets. It’s sort of like trying to avoid air.’’"

A subject I return to frequently, now that I'm back in the US and living in a rural area. I'm careful, but would like to create a poison-ivy-free zone – through competition with other vines, the usual clearing (not herbicides, though), and, if I could, micro-organisms.