September 2009
68 posts
Holy crap! GEORGE BUSH ADDRESSES THE NATIONS... →
24hourpartypooper: October 1, 1991. A day that will live in infamy.
It Wasn't Sinister Then & It's Not Sinister Now →
24hourpartypooper: President Ronald Reagan gave a similar speech to students as he was winding-up his second term in the Oval Office. The nationally-televised dialogue with students – which was held in November, 1988 — resembles the scheduled Obama event in many ways.
In the early afternoon hours of November 14, 1988, President Reagan, seated in the White House State Dining Room, proclaimed...
Update on "greatest headline in sports history"
Not to say this headline didn’t happen, but 41 years ago, which would’ve been 1968, that Oct. 5 game in which UGA beat South Carolina yielded no such headline. In fact, I can’t find any columns by Grizzard in the Sept.-Oct. 1968 volumes of the Athens Daily News/Athens Banner-Herald, either (I didn’t look much further, as time hasn’t allowed today).
Still, it’s...
So sad Cookies & Co. is closing →
Cinnamon Toast cookies, peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip … what was better than when someone showed up at work or a party with the signature brown box full of sweet delicious treats?
Mmm, and the yummy hot sandwiches served with chips and a pickle on a paper plate in the cozy downstairs dining room, with its paneled walls and vintage posters (this used to be the whole restaurant...
Greatest Headline in the History of Sports...
I will be confirming this today via the morgue’s bound copies, but I suspect it’s true (i mean, really — a. it’s Grizzard, and b. a drunk editor at the ABH? well, ok, i haven’t actually seen that in my day, but we’re talking Mad Men-era here.)
gds923: (via aewsome):
On the eve of the Georgia (Bulldogs) - South Carolina (Gamecocks) game 41 years ago, I was...
Happy 40th Birthday (day late), Internet →
shaneblog: September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)… the Internet.
Oh internet, where o where would we be without you?
WatchVia: marieporterfield:
“The Tire-Fixer on Christmas Day” This video is exhibited on extraordinaryathens.com.
“Extraordinary Athens is an exploration of the remarkable people in Athens, Georgia whose inspiring stories are translated into artistic interpretations.”
for more information: http://www.extraordinaryathens.com/?cat=14
to learn more about the web-based project Extraordinary Athens:...
“I think games are the future in education. We’re going through a rapid...”
– Biologist E. O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, two-time Pulitzer-winning ant expert who helped develop theories of island biogeography, chemical ecology, and sociobiology.
This is a great interview via NPR with Wilson, conducted by computer game mastermind Will Wright (The Sims,...
August 2009
53 posts
“The Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has...”
– What Facebook Quizzes Know About You (via sds) (via notthatkindagay) (via kathlellen) (via shorterexcerpts)
