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The long awaited and ultra-ambitious Encyclopedia of Life finally came online on Tuesday, but no sooner did it spring to life than, like an infant version of one of the species it catalogs, it fell flat on its face. Apparently underestimating the interest that the site would generate, its servers buckled under the load and yesterday, the old teaser site was put back online. Today, the EOL's first 30,000 pages are back up, though still noticeably slow.