(Yes, the Cringe blog has two Geek News roundups this week instead of one. Don't like it? Blame Microsoft.) Spook for yourself. Don't look now, but your favorite virtual world may be a hotbed of actual terrorists and assorted criminals. Or so warns a report issued by the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity, a kind of uber-intelligence agency designed to fill in the cracks between our nation's 15 othe (Yes, the Cringe blog has two Geek News roundups this week instead of one. Don’t like it? Blame Microsoft.)Spook for yourself. Don’t look now, but your favorite virtual world may be a hotbed of actual terrorists and assorted criminals. Or so warns a report issued by the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity, a kind of uber-intelligence agency designed to fill in the cracks between our nation’s 15 other spy agencies. According to the report, the CIA has already set up its own islands on Second Life to train virtual spies (that must be where all those missing WMDs are hiding). But I wouldn’t worry too much. You can tell who the terrorists are in Second Life; they’re the only ones who aren’t dressed like sex slaves. Then again, those might just be the CIA agents. Mean green machines. Dell has announced the winners of its ecologically inspired art contest on Facebook. The contest’s theme was “What does green mean to you?” (which I suppose is the diametric opposite of “what can Brown do for you?”). Participants used Facebook’s Graffiti applet to generate more than 7,000 entries worthy of any Thomas Kinkade Gallery, but you can find the winners here. My favorites: lovingly rendered images of a squirrel about to be creamed by a monorail, the guy trying to sniff a salamander up his nose, and an enormous (yet tearful) rodent on the verge of devouring a small city. Worth a look. Crunchy goodness? Google may be on the verge of buying Bebo, a social networking site that’s like the MySpace for Europe. Or it might have already bought Plaxo, the contact management site that wishes it were a social network. Or it might do both. Whether you believe these rumors depends on how much stock you put into their source: the TechCrunch blog, which did nail the Google-YouTube deal last year a few days before the news became public but tends to shoot from the hip first and ask questions later. I don’t know if acquiring Plaxo and Bebo is such a good idea; I understand they’re hotbeds of terrorism. Got hot tips or ravenous rodents? Post your news below or e-mail me here. Top tipsters qualify for cool eco-friendly swag. Think you’ve got the right stuff to pass our tech quizzes? They’re not as easy as they look: • The InfoWorld News Quiz • Test Your Geek IQ • Test Your Network Security IQ Software DevelopmentSmall and Medium Business