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Making my sweet sweet vacation just a tiny bit longer, a whole extra second will be inserted into the space time continuum in less than an hour.
On December 31, 2008 a “leap second” will be added to the world’s clocks at 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This corresponds to [...]

High Court Grants Marriage Rights For Same-Sex Couples — Courant.com
The state Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry swept through the state with the force of a cultural tidal wave.
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The Supreme Court released its historic ruling at 11:30 a.m. Citing the equal protection clause of the state constitution, the [...]

SOS: the signal that has saved thousands turns 100 - Times Online
In the past century, “SOS” has become a firm part of popular culture used in everything from DIY programme titles to Abba hits. But it began life in a far more serious setting after being adopted by the international community on July 1, 1908, [...]

George Carlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On June 22, 2008, Carlin was admitted to St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California complaining of chest pain. He died later that day at 5:55 p.m. PDT of heart failure at the age of 71.
George Carlin was pretty damn funny.
Seven words you can’t say on TV (wow he [...]

5:01 PM - Towleroad, More than gay news for more gay men
At 5:01pm today, history will be made as gay and lesbian couples begin marrying in California, led symbolically by the marriage of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the couple of 50 years who were first married in San Francisco City Hall in 2004
(their 2004 [...]

This is Why They Wanted Hillary Clinton’s White House Schedule? - Towleroad, More gay news for more gay men
The National Archives released 11,000 pages of scheduling documents covering 2900 days of Hillary Clinton’s time as first lady.
So on the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, ABC News used those documents to post a “stained [...]

Free water ice for the first day of spring - Slashfood
For those of you not in the know … water ice is a half sorbet/half shaved ice concoction that is infused with fruit flavors
Rita’s is giving away free Italian Ice in celebration of the first day of spring.  I haven’t had Rita’s in a while, [...]

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 - New York Times
Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.
See also Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, [...]

Other cities dye-ing to know what turns Chicago river green - Online Exclusives
Dyeing the Chicago River Irish green has been a tradition for more than 40 years and at least 50 cities want to know how Chicago volunteers perform the miraculous transformation every year.
Bill King, the administrator of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day committee, said that [...]

Yesterday was my birthday.
It wasn’t the best birthday I have ever had, but my sister and friends made sure it wasn’t one of the worst.  There were some people at the party that made it a bad party, but they left and I felt so much better.  Its hard having someone that hates you at [...]

National Peanut Butter Day
I didn’t even know what a glorious day it was until I read Happy National Peanut Butter Day! - Slashfood
I will have to have some organic Wegman’s Pb when I get home.  Maybe I will have some chunky AND some creamy!
I like to dip Wegman’s brand low fat triscuits in it.  They [...]

I hope your 2008 is even better than 2007.

Merry Christmas!

The Transistor’s Birthday - Forbes.com
Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world’s first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so [...]

Little Rock Nine mark 50th anniversary - Yahoo! News
LITTLE ROCK - The Little Rock Nine, who as students were escorted by federal soldiers into the all-white Central High School because they were black, marveled at the celebrity-like fanfare they received on the 50th anniversary of the event Tuesday. But they cautioned that racial divides still [...]