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This post is pure geekery, so never you mind if that’s not your thing…
We use a Ruby on Rails plugin called acts_as_solr for full text search on some of our Rails apps at work. This provides an interface to a Solr search engine, which is based on Lucene technology. Lately I’ve been digging into some […]

Checkout FriendFeed if you’re one of those types who has accounts on (and actually uses, at least occasionally) Flickr, Twitter, del.icio.us, Facebook and whatever else (like your’s truly — here’s my FriendFeed, yo).
More to the point, get your over-broadcast friends to get on FriendFeed and save you some clicking.
It’s a one-stop feed shop!

Gypsy Color
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.

Or… Y’know… A bulleted list of junk from the internets:

A couple from my tsrly quotes:

It’s St. Paddy vs. Jesus this year as the Easter Holy Week overlaps St. Patrick’s Day. Quite a conundrum for the Irish Catholics, eh? Luckily, my personal beer worship won’t be affected.
The hairstyles of Japanese women might reflect the state of […]

No, I don’t mean it.
I just wanted to link to a couple online videos that I find completely and inexplicably mesmerizing, so I threw a little pop reference in there for flavor. You know how I do.
Anyway, here you go:

How is babby formed?
Hurra Torpedo does the best version of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” that […]

Unfortunately I just found out about this.
Now the only seats left available are $225, so I shan’t be attending.  Shame.

Today, Rod posted these rejected Star Wars products to our sooper-seekrit IRC channel, prompting the following:
Jake: tauntaun suit is the best thing EVER
Jake: and pants are optional!
Rod: hell yes
Rod: and then if you’re at a halloween party and some girl opens up your sweaty suit to blow you, she can say “and i thought […]

Heidi Klum will eat your face!
Of course, we already knew she’d shoot you with her “great knockers!”