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It’s become an annual tradition:

You are now 31 years old. That’s:

11,315 days

271,564 hours (as of 3:11PM UTC)

16,293,840 minutes
977,630,400 seconds

977,630,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 yactoseconds

Interesting Fact o’ the Day:

Also sharing your birthday:

  • 1895 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and league founder (he owned and coached the Chicago Bears. His daughter, Virginia, is the majority stakeholder in the team).
  • 1897 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (HO-JO!)
  • 1942 - Graham Nash, American (British-born) rock musician (of Crosby, Stills, and Nash)
  • 1949 - Brent Spiner, American actor

Happy Birthday! I LOVE YOU!

| Posted by: Jim T. | Link to this post |

PCWorld (via Yahoo) has an awesome article on the 50 greatest electronic gizmos of the last half-century. Each item is presented with a breif description as to why it had such a large impact on the world technological culture.

Of course, you may disagree with some of the items on the list. I certainly do.

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Before our white brothers came to civilize us, we had no jails.

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20th Nov, 2003

Lincoln at Gettysburg

In honor of the 140th anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address (yesterday), here is the only known photo of him at the field. Can’t find him?

Go here.

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