Crayon time

So when I was looking for information about knapweed and bachelor's buttons after my mystery plant was identified, one useful item I ran across was the Knapweed entry in the Noxious Weed Coloring Book.

This coloring book is intended to teach people (presumably kids) how to recognize particularly harmful plants in Washington State. Other featured weeds include "Dalmation Toadflax", "Sulfur Cinquefoil", "Parrotfeather", "Tansy Ragwort" -- I've never heard of these, but they sound like fairy rejects from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

There is, of course, lots of other coloring fun to be had on the web. There's the Law and Order coloring book ("A body is found! The victim is adult, male, and black."), the George W. Bush Coloring Book, and if you're feeling especially wild and crazy, the Illinois State Senate Coloring and Activity Book (available in handy PDF -- very considerate).

But that's not as much fun as activity books that teach us what to avoid. We could have the Noxious TV Personality Coloring Book, the Online Fraud Activity Book, and the Corporate Media Monopoly board game.