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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLrv64q8GNg
http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/03/happy-cheese-weasel-day-2/
http://www.wordslingersok.com/2013/03/off-the-cuff-cheese-weasel-day-is-april-3rd/
http://cheeseweaselday.com/
http://gizmodo.com/164718/cheese-weasel-day-thank-your-techies

A recent development is that the backstory switched coasts -- as near as I can figure, somebody remembered the "in a national park" part, and assumed that since it's a techie holiday it must've started near Silicon Valley. Argh. No, it started here on the East Coast. IIRC, the weasel was spotted at a scenic overlook along Skyline Drive -- if I ever get back in touch with the one of the originators of the holiday, I'll ask her whether I've remembered that correctly. (Also, folks are now saying the slice of cheese is left under someone's mouse pad, which seems every bit as reasonable a place to put it, but in the interest of historical accuracy I'll point out that the cheese was originally left under keyboards -- mice were not ubiquitous then, though they were starting to spread because Windows 3.1 and Desqview X were out by that time, though I think more people were still using plain ol' MS-DOS.)

I learned about Cheese Weasel day the old fashioned way: came into work one day and noticed that everyone in the office was giving me odd grins when they said hello, sat down at my computer and was asked whether the Cheese Weasel had brought me anything, gave a really confused look, and then noticed a bit of yellow peeking out from under my keyboard. After I had picked up what turned out to be a slice of American cheese I had a really confused look, and everybody explained the Cheese Weasel tradition there and showed me the Cheese Weasel Day card somebody had made a few years earlier and sang me the Cheese Weasel song. Of course, I had to email all my techie friends about it as soon as I could fire up a modem, and the Boston crowd was all over it in a heartbeat.