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16 AUGUST

1884: Hugo Gernsback is born
1920: Charles Bukowski is born
1938: Robert Johnson dies
1956: Bela Lugosi’s dead
1977: Elvis Presley dies

15 AUGUST

1877: Hello? Hello?
1912: Julia Child is born
1925: Oscar Peterson is born [cjam]
1944: Linda Ellerbee is born
1967: René Magritte dies
1967: Picasso’s gift to Chicago is unveiled

14 AUGUST

1900: An international force puts down the Boxer Rebellion
1950: Gary Larson is born
1956: Bertolt Brecht dies
2003: Massive power cuts cause chaos across the eastern United States and Canada

GUYS COUNT THE IMAGINARY ONES TOO

A mathematician says it is a logical impossibility for heterosexual men to have more partners on average than heterosexual women. I think about adding a Fark-style OBVIOUS tag to the Aardvark.

By way of dramatization, we change the context slightly and will prove what will be called the High School Prom Theorem. We suppose that on […]

13 AUGUST

1899: Alfred Hitchcock is born [interview] [vid: tour]
1945: Herbert George Wells dies
1961: Berlin is divided

12 AUGUST

1827: William Blake dies [digitext]

1869: Norton I dissolves and abolishes the Democratic and Republican parties

1931: William Goldman is born

1981: IBM’s first personal computer is introduced

1992: John Cage dies [vid: 4′33″]

11 AUGUST

1833: Robert Green Ingersoll is born

1892: Hugh MacDiarmid is born [audio]

1950: Steve Wozniak is born [interview]

1984: “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.” [mp3]

WOOHOO

“America, add one more quarter-scoop of sugar to your Kool-Aid and treat yourself to a new pair of socks—the minimum-wage hike has finally arrived.”
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WHAT

Giant Lego Man Found in Sea (Spiegel, via regine)

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Beheaded Snake Sends Man to Hospital