The boys over at haxademix.net never cease to amaze me, this time rolling out a web based and virtually anonymous SQL injection tool (it's FREE to).

http://evil.hackademix.net/sqlit/

** For those of you who do not know what an SQL injection is...

SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is in fact an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another.

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have fun and remember it's for EDUCATIONAL purposes :)

Elephants are such fascinating animals and I have to thank my son for getting me interested in them.

Here is an interesting National Geographic article on how elephants in war-torn Angola have "learned" how to avoid land mines that are scattered throughout the land.

[via MonkeyFilter]

Programmers Kasper Neilson and Ole Iverson from Denmark have developed interactive learning floors called "Wisdom Wells".  Not meant to replace ordinary classroom teaching, Wisdom Wells not only encourages individual learning, but also collaborative learning where the students can learn from each other.  [link]

Yep, you read it right: more mechanical LEGO computing! This time it's a difference engine. This time, think Babbage's difference engine in LEGO. Not exactly programming, but computing nonetheless. Maybe someone should start a mechanical LEGO computation group...

A mechanical LEGO difference engine.

I know, it's been a while since I've posted here, and I really should change that. But when I came accross this, I immediately thought of Mr. Striegel, the main man here at blogcadre.

I was browsing digg for some cool content and came accross something amazing; a combination of electronics and LEGOs. No, I don't mean LEGO Mindstorms sets, nor do I mean any sort of third party robotics for LEGOs. The site is a demonstration of logic gates, commonly used in electronics and computer science, with LEGO pieces.