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Google Search Appliance virtual edition This is pretty cool, index up to 50K documents with the test appliance. (via Scott Lowe) The Crow Paradox : NPR Interesting that crows can hold grudges for years…

Flank Steak Stir-Fry with Asparagus and Red Pepper Recipe | Simply Recipes Going to try this tonight — props to Jeremy Zawodny for finding it. I love excuses to fire up the wok. Pest Control – Moles, Gophers, Burrowing Rodents @ Rodenator Blowing up burrowing pests one tunnel at a time. Cool!

Anonymous Pro Cool, might have to check this out. (tags: revisit-font) Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson – THE DEFINITIVE INDEX – The Sims 3 "Are you lost in a sea of Edward Cullen's and can't decide which one to download? Are you thinking, "Geez, I wonder if anyone has made an Edward Cullen yet."? Have you been dreaming of making an entire town just of Edward Cullens? Or are you just feeling like if you see yet another Edward Cullen you will implode!? Below are the 140+ Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson sims made since launch. Click on the picture you like and it will link you to its download page. My favs are by knox and fieryfemale. How about yours?" OMFG. AT&T signals …

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Sports: Seven years after starting to pump iron again, Madison's Jim Ray owns a world record I bet you folks don't work with a world record holder. 🙂 I've actually been lucky to work with two. Jim Ray, the world's strongest sysadmin, and Joe Detmer, the world's fastest sysadmin (he has, or at least had, a running record in the decathlon).

iPod Earbud Revelation Is Shocking – ABC News This happens to me all the time — I've stopped using the Apple In-Ear headphones because of it.

Achenblog – Astronauts At Safeway Self-Checkout This paragraph reminds me of of my work as a sysadmin, and the general lack of credit sysadmins get when things just work: "This is sort of like fixing a car that has been sitting in a field for 8 years. NASA has this problem — the things that they do are really really hard. And yet often to outsiders it looks relatively easy. But it looks easy because a) they train like crazy, and b) they throw a lot of top resources at it. So they solve these problems fixing the Hubble, but that's because they've been practicing for _years_ and they have 200 people on the ground looking over every procedure. They …

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Thierry Legault – Transit of Atlantis and Hubble in front of the Sun This is darn cool.

WGBH: Wisconsin's White Deer Herd I'd love to see one of these deer. President Obama calls Air Force One flyover 'mistake' day after low-flying plane terrifies New York A) Props to them for not using Photoshop. B) Quit living in fear, people. Seeing Air Force One should be a really cool moment, and if you'd use your head it would be. It has been for me.

Atlassian Stimulus Package $5 for a 5-user license of Confluence or Jira — that's a great deal if you were looking at getting into wikis or issue tracking. Even if your company is big, if it's just going to be your IT staff, or just as a proof-of-concept for documentation, this cannot be beat. Norm Stamper: 420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief Fairly interesting, especially from the point of view of law enforcement.

Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0 – TIME I've heard about Intellipedia before, it's really interesting how they manage it. I like the idea of "shepherds."