ladymoonshimmer's Xombytes

My daughter is a normal, healthy 8 year old with an active imagination and selective hearing. She is in third grade and goes to a wonderful school. She has learned, on this great day in history, to pay closer attention to what her teacher is saying.

Play free online games at www.GWAP.com (Games With A Purpose). No! GWAP is not the sound of the AFLAC Duck when stepped on.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed 5 innovative online games that teach computers new abilities that were impossible for them to perform before.

Now if you are like most of the world you just may be a little squeamish, talking about giant beetles and all; some as large as a child's hand, but this story is weird and worth the read.

A postal employee in Pennsylvania suspected that a package labled toys, gifts and jellies contained live organisims, when sounds, like scratching, were heard coming from within the box. When the packaged was x-rayed and opened 26 Hercules, Goliath and Rhinoceros Beetles were found. Some labled by gender making experts believe that they were intended for breeding. Now, thats a scary thought, maybe the next Hollywood movie, Attack of the Giant Beetles.