Monthly Archives: May 2009

On This Day In History: Titanic Era Ends

By Kurt | Published: May 31, 2009
On this day in history: May 31, 1911 and 2009 on 12seconds.tv In the presence of thousands of spectators the s.s. Titanic which will share with the Olympic the distinction of being one of the two largest vessels afloat, was launched from Messrs. Harland & Wolff’s yard at the Queen’s Island yesterday. When the Olympic was [...]
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Daily Quippages 05.31.2009

By Kurt | Published: May 31, 2009
• Remarkably, the last survivor of the Titanic’s fateful demise passes on the same date today that the Titanic herself was launched in 1911 – see today’s OTDIH 365 video and story for more. • Facebook vanity URLs coming next week according to TechCrunch.  I’ll be changing http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1099655061 to http://www.facebook.com/kurtstarnes. • John Bonham of Led Zeppelin would have [...]
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On This Day In History: First Indy 500

By Kurt | Published: May 30, 2009
On this day in history: May 30, 1911 on 12seconds.tv and YouTube Thirteen laps into the race, a multi-car accident occurred on the main straightaway, right in front of the scoring stand. Fisher’s friends had volunteered to score the race, but many scurried out of the way when the cars crashed near them. For several laps, [...]
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Daily Quippages 05.30.2009

By Kurt | Published: May 30, 2009
• Happy 43rd Mr. Malkmus. Here’s Stephen playing “It Kills” live with The Jicks – via Blip.fm. • Video: World’s largest laser to create a mini-star (fusion) potentially outputting 100 to 1000xs input energy – via PhysOrg. • Google Reader Users: Here’s a Greasemonkey script which allows one to “mark some items as read” instead of all -  [...]
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