Weekend Geekiness
Geek Quote of the Day brought to you by edible_hat on ubergeek:
May 1st
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." [R. Buckminster Fuller]
May 2nd
"I have seen the future and it doesn't work." [Robert Fulford]
May 3rd
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." [B. F. Skinner]
Geek Facts of the Day brought to you from the posts by monkeyspike on ubergeek:
May 1st
1930 - The planet Pluto is officially named.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1978 - The first e-mail spam was sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
May 2nd
1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported.
Births: 1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
Deaths:
1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
2002 - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker and mathematician (b. 1917)
May 4th
1953 - Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
In the year 2006 at Two minutes and Three seconds past One in the morning the date will read: 01:02:03 04/05/06 (in the UK date format).
In the year 2006 at Two minutes and One second past Three in the morning the date will read: 06-05-04 03:02:01.00 (in big-endian date/time format ignoring centuries - years-months-days hours:minutes:seconds ).
Births: 1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895)
May 6th
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1994 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Channel Tunnel - a tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France for the first time since the end of the Great Ice Age.
Births:
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1856 - Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
May 1st
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." [R. Buckminster Fuller]
May 2nd
"I have seen the future and it doesn't work." [Robert Fulford]
May 3rd
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." [B. F. Skinner]
Geek Facts of the Day brought to you from the posts by monkeyspike on ubergeek:
May 1st
1930 - The planet Pluto is officially named.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1978 - The first e-mail spam was sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
May 2nd
1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported.
Births: 1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
Deaths:
1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
2002 - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker and mathematician (b. 1917)
May 4th
1953 - Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
In the year 2006 at Two minutes and Three seconds past One in the morning the date will read: 01:02:03 04/05/06 (in the UK date format).
In the year 2006 at Two minutes and One second past Three in the morning the date will read: 06-05-04 03:02:01.00 (in big-endian date/time format ignoring centuries - years-months-days hours:minutes:seconds ).
Births: 1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895)
May 6th
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1937 - Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1994 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterrand inaugurate the opening of the Channel Tunnel - a tunnel under the English Channel linking England and France for the first time since the end of the Great Ice Age.
Births:
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
1856 - Robert Peary, American explorer (d. 1920)
1915 - Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)