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People keep asking me about
[the beard thing](http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22838/1090/)... Here's
The charity selected this year was an organization that is trying to
[save the Tasmanian Devil](http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/) from
extinction. Professor Hamish McCallum, the chief scientist with the
-program gave a talk after dinner and before the auction began.
+program, gave a talk after dinner and before the auction began.
The native population is suffering from a fatal facial tumor disease that
results in horrible lesions, and is likely to kill off all the Devils within
a decade or three. My family and I all have a strong love of nature, and
charity I would consent to a shave. The resulting frenzy, including
the suggestion that if it went high enough
[Linus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds) should do the
-shaving, and the formation of a bidding consortium that kept raising more
+shaving, and the formation of a [bidding consortium](http://www.flickr.com/photos/varrqnuht/3214594907/) that kept raising more
money and bidding against itself, was completely unexpected! Others have
tried to capture [details of the insanity](http://zarfmouse.livejournal.com/291848.html),
but the bottom line is that by the end of the evening, the total had blown