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]