If I were a bio-terrorist, I think my next project would be to engineer a fish flu, hoping to enormously build on the damage to the human food supply caused by bird flu. (I am a fiction writer, and neither a bio-terrorist nor a genetic engineer, so no worries. Plus, I rather like fish. Even as I type, Jack... www.philipbrewer.net

@philipbrewer You’re scaring me, Philip! I love fish.

@odd Oh, me too! I didn't as a boy—I'd occasionally eat very mild fish, like tilapia, orange roughy, or catfish. But then I discovered salmon. Yum!