Eli Lilly is using on-demand servers and storage from Amazon to support its pharmaceuticals research. Dave Powers, an IT pro with Eli Lilly who is helping to spearhead that effort, says the speed of implementation, flexibility, and collaborative capabilities of cloud services are "absolutely disruptive" in how the company thinks about and deploys IT resources.

How Eli Lilly Taps Into The Cloud - Plug Into The Cloud - InformationWeek

Their text is image and not quotable, but its a neat 3 day course with lots of space shenanigans.

Hotel is not included.

Free 3 Day Leadership Program at NASA

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Regarding priority, I realize that likely there are scant few use cases for embedding FLV/H.264 vs loading dynamically at runtime. With the Flash IDE, embedding video is a longstanding feature and the use cases do exist.

Adobe sucks, and Flex is a piece of shit. I for one welcome our new Microsoft Silverlight web overlords.

[#SDK-259] support FLV embedding - Adobe Bug System

WHEN President Bill Clinton pardoned a billionaire fugitive from justice on his last day in office, even usually loyal Democrats were dismayed. Representative Henry Waxman of California called it “bad precedent” and “an end run around the judicial process.” He said it appeared to set a double standard for the wealthy and powerful.

This is pretty troubling.

Op-Ed Contributor - A Pardon to Remember - NYTimes.com

Ha!

10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard

We conducted a soft survey at last week's Atlanta Angel Lounge meeting. As you review the results, you should keep in mind that this crisis is new and unsettled. In fact, since our last meeting the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped over 1,400 points. So this data, although only a week old, may be outdated.

Here is what we learned from a gathering of 25 Atlanta angel investors:

* The professional angels with a sizable wealth base said, 'it will be business as usual.'
* There was agreement that with AAA rated companies like GE paying 10% with warrants for long-term money, valuations for early stage companies will be lower. The risk/return ratio is shifting with the market.
* Many angels are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see what their liquidity will be when the markets get back to some rhythm, good or bad.
* Deals will be more closely scrutinized and therefore more time will be needed to raise money.

Charlie Paparelli - Angel Investments in the Downturn

I believe marriage is meant to be a scared institution be a between 2 unwilling teenagers. But don't think I don't I tolerate gay people because I do. I tolerate them with all my heart.

Priceless.

Saturday Night Live - Palin / Biden Debate

While "True Blood" bowed to just 1.4 million total viewers for its initial run, the overall audience tally had grown to 5.4 million once several weeks' data measuring other viewing options had trickled in. HBO renewed the show for a second season.

As audiences increasingly watch original series through encore runs, DVRs and video-on-demand, the lesson is to not judge a show by its overnight numbers. Wait at least a week or two.

It's a logic proliferating among cable networks on the basic and premium side of the spectrum. Perceptions, they say, aren't in sync with reality.

TV shows taking time to grow - Variety

Russian navy sails to Venezuela
Russia's Peter the Great warship.

Russian warships have set off for Venezuela for joint exercises unprecedented since the Cold War.

If there's another cold war, maybe spy novels will get good again!

Russian navy sails to Venezuela | BBC NEWS | Americas |

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMU-wXsgyR8

Oh man this is great!

YouTube - Sesame Street - How Crayons Are Made