My Good Deed

The company where I'm working now has had an opening for a database admin since the beginning of summer. I found out about a month and a half ago that one of the temps on my data entry team this summer has many years of experience as a data admin -- and he's an amazing worker! So I encouraged him to throw his name in for the open position. Well -- he got offered the job yesterday! His official first day in the office is Sept. 15. I'm really happy for him, he loves this company, he needs something more reliable than temping, and I'm glad I get to work with him again. It feels good to know I helped make this happen. Yay me!

Here are some links to celebrate:

20 Best Websites to Download Free EBooks

Fantastic and interesting photos of the Beijing Olympics (a couple are NSFW!)

Hurra Torpedo -- Total Eclipse of the Heart
Hurra Torpedo -- All the Things (S)he Said (this is one of my favorites!)
-- I posted these guys a long time ago on my MySpace blog... but it's high time we all revisit them!

The Empire Has Invaded!

Death Star Over San Francisco

Twistori -- An fascinating little app based on Twitter.

Phelps Go Crazy!!!

And here are two links that are completely unrelated to Michael Phelps:

The Periodic Table of Awesoments

Pick a satellite to view Earth

Random Stuff

This is what happens when a thunderstorm hits an erupting volcano.
(More spectacular pics can be seen here.)

Interesting anarchist website. Spend some time browsing.

The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High.

Eight Reasons Even The Innocent Shouldn't Talk To The Police.
(It's kind of a long video, but well worth watching.)

What happens when you crap in outer space?
(You'll never look at shooting stars the same way again!)

Amazing views of Jupiter and its moons.

And for those of you who didn't see this posted on Facebook:
Scala sings "Creep" by Radiohead.
(From one of the best music blogs on the net - taking tiger mountain.)