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Join the Feed the Turkey Virtual Turkey Trot!

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It's the first ever virtual turkey trot, and it benefits St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. From Runblogger, here are the steps:

1. Head over to feedtheturkey.com to sign up
2. Post that you are participating on dailymile, Facebook, Twitter, and/or your own blog (feel free to use the image in this post!)
3. Make your donation (levels are easy to handle – $1, $5, or $10) which will go 100% to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
4. Run or walk a 5k (or more) on Thanksgiving day. It can be an official race, a solo effort, or just a fun run with friends.
5. Head back to feedtheturkey.com to post your results, print your finisher’s certificate, and be entered for prize giveaways!

Sounds like fun to me!

Muddy Run To Briones

And this time, I did it the right way, so I got to run around in the park itself. See my Daily Mile post for details.

I took some pictures on the way:

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The cows were out in force in the Walnut Creek Open Space (Acalanes Ridge)

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This is heading up the hill in Briones, and I noticed that there was one brown cow.

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The view from the top. I had to stop and admire it. I'm not sure my cameraphone does it justice.

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Looking back the way I came, towards Mt. Diablo.

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Another view from the top.

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On the way back down, I got a much better view of the one brown cow.

Amazing post on Big Picture: National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010

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And that's just one of them. There are plenty more. I haven't been doing well at keeping up with posts on Big Picture, but I'm happy I caught this one.

Why webOS rocks for developers (and even general techies)

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While it may not translate to mainstream success, this is one of the big reasons I really like webOS. Not only did HP/Palm invite one of the leaders of the homebrew community to speak at an official event, in the Q&A, someone from Palm asked him "What can we do to make things easier for you?" The webOS dev community is awesome, and Palm's support makes it even more so.

And while Google might like open source and letting devs muck around in the internals, the Android handset makers seem to sing a completely different tune.

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