Haven’t posted in a long time, but I ran across this. Don’t know how well it works or even if it works. They claim it is effective against ticks and fleas, so maybe it will work with bed bugs - can’t find a phone number to call company - so caveat emptor.
Zero Bug [...]

This article is from a group that I would admittedly consider to have  a bias but I’m allowing them to be the strange bedfellow in my bed (of course on risers) on this issue.
Bedbug Outbreak Hits All 50 States Thanks to DDT Ban
Written By: James Hoare
Published In: Environment News
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
Publisher: The Heartland Institute

Bedbug infestations [...]

 Answer:    Carolus Linnaeus
From a just published article in Smithsonian Magazine
But many of his other views were surprisingly modern. He foreshadowed Darwin in his belief in a universal struggle for survival. He was the first to classify human beings in the same genus as other primates, and he grouped whales with mammals (previously they had been [...]

All NYC residents, please call your Assemblypersons to urge passage of Councilman Gianaris’ bedbug notification bill. See below the misinformation quoted by Ms. Feinberg.
Gianaris seeks alerts if bedbugs in schools
By Nathan Duke
05/03/2007
Margie Feinberg, spokeswoman for the Education Department, said bedbugs do not live in schools but are brought in on students’ clothing. She [...]

In the 1930 novel “Jews Without Money,” there is a chapter entitled “Did God Make Bedbugs?” Here is an excerpt.
“One steaming hot night I couldn’t sleep for the bedbugs. They have a peculiar nauseating smell of their own…They crawl slowly and pompously, bloated with blood, and the touch and smell of these parasites [...]

by bugzinthehood
Although this article is about mosquitos, bed bugs are attracted to our Co2 also.
How to Cut the Mosquito’s Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide?
… the tinny buzzy devils that transform our nights in real nightmares and transmit fatal diseases like malaria or West Nile fever are guided to our bodies by a GPS that is turned [...]

by Bugzinthehood
Out of all the NY Times real estate stories published in 2006, the excellent piece by Sewell Chan, on bedbugs, published October 15, was fourth most viewed among readers, beating even “Playing the Sex Card.” Now, you know you’ve really got a problem when more people are reading about bedbugs than sex.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/realestate/2006MV-RE.html?ex=1171342800&en=7ada028b79feecc5&ei=5070

One of our readers on Yahoo asked how people remediated bed bug infestations, say, about the year 1910 before modern chemical treatments were invented. Well, how about the year 1730 and this published formula?
**Warning: This is probably extremely flammable. We have not used this method and we strongly recommend you do not [...]

Here’s a new way to make a buck. Changethatsrightnow devoted to curing many kinds of phobias offers to take care of your mental Cimex problem.

Our board-certified team specializes in helping individuals overcome fears, phobias & anxiety of all kinds, and is particularly focused on problems such as Bed Bugs Phobia. With a success rate [...]

A post on our Aussie friend Brent Herbert’s site. Brent has some good ideas about constructing a tent-like barrier to afford sleep safety. But his philosophy about kick-starting a new bed bug evolution… Well, I predict by the year 3,000,000 A.D., he might be right.

I also feel a moral responsibility to the bed [...]

When enough people come to a realization or change their behavior, it becomes a tipping point. But when enough media and people become aware of bed bugs, that will be because it has reached the Itching Point.

As originated by Morton Grodzins, any process in which beyond a certain point, the rate at which the process proceeds increases dramatically.
Bed bugs are still only slowly being acknowledged for the menace they are, their ability to wreck people’s lives emotionally, physically and financially and their potential to devastate the entire real estate, [...]