I'm sorry sir you have some "poo" on your wrist... and other odd articles.

[Firestormalpha]

Dinosaur dung crafted into $11,290 watch

GENEVA - A Swiss watchmaker is hoping to raise a stink with an expensive timepiece that eschews the trade's standard gold, diamond or titanium fittings for a more earthy substance — dinosaur dung. Vesenaz, Switzerland-based company Artya says the watch set in fossilized feces will sell for $11,290 and comes with a strap made with skin from an American cane toad. Designer Yvan Arpa said Monday the coprolite came from a plant-eater that died about 100 million years ago in what is now the U.S.

actually it doesn't look all that bad, not sure I'd pay that much for it though.
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post your articles as you find them.

[Larry_OHF]

I was researching an article for tonight's class in Cyber Crime and came across this. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BU6J1CEPK6.DTL

Try to stay with me...I have to set up the "odd" part.

So the Mariposa botnet was being run by three non-techie noobs who paid about $2500 for a GUI interface hacking program which ended up being a lucrative and large-scale network. In fact, the majority of today's hackers are using pre-made software made by real geniuses and following the manual on how to be a haxxor.
The article takes off towards the popular ZeuS botnet and how sofisticated it is...and here is the kicker:

The program also generates colorful graphics detailing how many victims have been attacked and which operating systems and browsers they use. The program even offers 24-hour technical support.

A score-keeper and tech support!