Andrew Pollack in the NYTimes reveals the secret message implanted in the recently announced synthetic bacterial genome.
You were expecting poetry perhaps? The secret messages hidden in scientist J. Craig Venter’s synthetic bacterial genome have now been revealed. They are — his name, and that of his research institute and co-workers.
I can’t decide whether this is kinda cute, kinda arrogant, or totally cool in a yay-for-hubris sort of way. Answers on the back of a postcard, please.

I can’t decide whether this is kinda cute, kinda arrogant, or totally cool in a yay-for-hubris sort of way.
I vote for “totally cool in a yay-for-hubris sort of way”. Science needs one, and only one, Craig Venter.