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Which Dayton? Not Ohio.

Our guppy just had close to 40 baby guppies.   That after she had 19 only 3.5 weeks ago.   Good grief.   Does somebody need some guppies?

If you don’t look at ZooBorns regularly, you’re really missing some good stuff.

Touch the snail for more information.

Apparently methanphetamine helps memory in humans and rats (I guess in limited amounts).  But researchers wanted to know if it works on snails, which store there memories in, get this, a 3 neuron network.  That’s 3 neurons!  We’ve got what, a billion?  Or is it a trillion?   I think a trillion.  Snails get by with 3.  That makes it easier to study how the meth works.

Securing your products against copying & compromise is hard.  Not only does your software have to not be broken (almost impossible), your hardware needs to not be exploitable too.

Here’s an interesting article on how key recovery can be done by looking at chip power consumption.

I sure don’t want to be the one designing the next voting machine if it’s not going to be open to public scrutiny.  Yikes.

Tea-party republicans vandalize 8th grade classroom.  Nice job guys.

Here’s an interesting blog entry from my favorite church (tongue-not-in-cheek) about a guy who had his parole revoked because he refused to go to a drug rehab program that had a strong religious component.

Check it out at the ULC.

I’m sure you know that we’re 98% chimp, but you’re also 80% frog!

I’d love to get this piece of junk mail.

Important highlights in the exhibition include linen socks worn by King Charles I during first half of the 17th century, Napoleon Bonaparte’s socks worn by him during his exile on St. Helena, exquisite pale pink silk stockings worn by Queen Victoria during her reign and teeny, tiny hand-knitted socks made by talented knitter Althea Crome who created all of the clothing worn by Coraline, the figurine in Tim Burton’s 2009 stop-motion film by the same name.

Read more: Bata Shoe Museum Explores the History of the Sock