one of those lj meme things
Never bothered with these before, seems like only one actual meme exists -- the mislabeled idea of an 'lj-meme', which persists. The individual examples peter out pretty promptly.
Anyways, this one has eju-muh-cational potential. A Wikipedia meme, from artaud.
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.
26 November
3 facts:
1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1977 - 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.
2 births:
1894 - Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d. 1964)
1922 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1 death:
326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
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Notes: I had never heard of the 'Vrillon' event before, and a quick web search only produced results from Wikipedia. It would be interesting to find some real info about this event. It is either an early TV broadcast hack, or a contempory Wikipedia 'hack'.
Also, Hugh the younger Despenser's death was nasty.
Anyways, this one has eju-muh-cational potential. A Wikipedia meme, from artaud.
1.Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia.org
2.List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.
26 November
3 facts:
1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1977 - 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.
2 births:
1894 - Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics (d. 1964)
1922 - Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
1 death:
326 - Hugh the younger Despenser, English knight (b. 1286)
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Notes: I had never heard of the 'Vrillon' event before, and a quick web search only produced results from Wikipedia. It would be interesting to find some real info about this event. It is either an early TV broadcast hack, or a contempory Wikipedia 'hack'.
Also, Hugh the younger Despenser's death was nasty.