Now I read fast, but someone has figured out that in order to read all the books she reviews - she would have to read 14 books a day - many of which get reviewed the same day they exist.

Could it be? Amazon's top reviewer is NOT a real person at all?

Harriet Klausner - Top Amazon Reviewer - Does she exist?

This is a wonderful link. After searching all morning to identify this plant growing in my yard, I found this link. Within 2 minutes with little scientific knowlege, I was able to correctly identify my plant. (It was periwinkle.)

YOu simply check the characteristics of the plant you have, as best you can, and hit submit. Possible matches come up.

In my case, there was only one possible match. The pictures I found verified that my plant was, indeed, periwinkle.

I'd never planted it, but after reading about it, I think I'll be keeping it.

This is a great link for kids or anyone doing a wildflower collection, or folks just trying to figure out what THAT IS in their yard.

Its Wildfllower TIME - here's a wonderful database

This article is just weird. Some people have their eyes come out due to an accident, but some folks eyeballs just pop out for no good reason. Here's what to do should YOUR eyeball come out of its socket.

JUST in case your eyeball ever pops out, here's how to put it back in

From the Sun Online, reporting that a first-run human trial of an new anti-inflammatory drug made by a company called Parexel nearly kills it's testers.

Two of the poor sods were lucky. They were given a placebo.

This sounds like a horror novel come to life. ICK.

Drug test turns nightmare!

This guy really is good at what he does. Kid's draw pictures of their 'monsters' and super-heros, and he takes those pictures, and paints them realistically, all the while leaving the basic lines and scope of the drawings.

My son really enjoyed this site, as did I. It is very interesting!

THE MONSTER ENGINE - What if a kid's imagination....was better represented?

The prankster decides to unwittingly enlist his cat in the fun. The cat has a subdermal pet ID tag, which the attacker rewrites with a virus using commercially available equipment. He then goes to a veterinarian (or the ASPCA), claims it is stray cat and asks for a cat scan. Bingo! The database is infected. Since the vet (or ASPCA) uses this database when creating tags for newly-tagged animals, these new tags can also be infected. When they are later scanned for whatever reason, that database is infected, and so on. Unlike a biological virus, which jumps from animal to animal, an RFID virus spread this way jumps from animal to database to animal.

I ignored this article this morning but its actually pretty cool. SQL injection, CSS, and buffer overflows from data stored in RFIDs is a vector that few people have really looked at. I wonder if the new U.S. Passports are vulnerable?

RFID Viruses: Is your cat infected with a computer virus?

I just wasted 15 minutes of my life on this.

Stacking cats - Tetris - with Cats

Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin

from the old-school-geeks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running a very interesting article with the DEF CON speaker and cryptographer Elonka Dunin. The article covers her career and specifically her involvement with the CIA and other US Military agencies."

Top link on slashdot for the nanosecond...

GO Elonka! We can't wait on your book to come out. :)

Slashdot | Interview With Cryptographer Elonka Dunin

NEW YORK (AP) -- Isaac Hayes has quit "South Park," where he voices Chef, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.

Hayes, who has played the ladies' man/school cook in the animated Comedy Central satire since 1997, said in a statement Monday that he feels a line has been crossed.

---Too bad...The creators make an interesting point at the of the
---article about why he's quitting, though.

They make a VERY interesting point. For years he's had no problem mocking Christiantiy, Islam, or Judaism. That's quite telling.

I love South Park. Nothing's sacred. :)

11Alive.com: Atlanta Entertainment - Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'

Apparently, he got up at 3 am, took his clothes off, took a friend and left.

Buddha Boy disappears