In the United States, Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service.
Link courtesy Greg Young, seniorsix.org
Archive for May, 2006
Do the Right Thing
On May - 25 - 2006
I was watching Do the Right Thing and it reminded me of the time Kenny and I went out to Buzz-a-Rama in Brooklyn. Buzz-a-Rama is (was?) a slot car track that opened around 1965.
It’s more in the neighborhood of Kensington, I think, not the movie’s Bed-Stuy. We had been making our grand tour of local slot car tracks in New Jersey, Westchester and Long Island sometime in the latter part of the 20th century.
Slot car racing was something I’d done as a kid in the 1960’s. I also participated in the brief New York City revival at Manhattan Raceway, as a member of the Rasta-Pasta-Noodle team. The pop culture status of the revival (I know, some people never stopped) was made apparent when Robin Leach and a film crew came to the track.
After Kenny and I left Buzz-a-Rama, we proceeded to the next course of our pastime, getting something to eat. We went to the local pizzeria. I told Kenny that he should ask why they didn’t have any pictures of African-American celebrities on the wall.
LIVESTRONG
On May - 19 - 2006
SkypeOut now FREE for US & Canada!
On May - 15 - 2006
“Yes. It is really very, very free. There’s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.”
This seems like a good deal. This promotion allows you to use Skype on your computer to call any phone number in the US and Canada for free until the end of the year. How can you pass that up?
The Night Sky on Your Desktop
On May - 6 - 2006
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
The Universe is a Trillion Years Old
On May - 5 - 2006
If the universe has bounced through a long series of big bangs and big crunches for a trillion years, it could solve the puzzle of why the cosmological constant is a googol smaller than that predicted by particle physics theories.
Or 6000.
Google Maps Sea Level Rise Mapper
On May - 3 - 2006
Watch global warming in action! Google maps plus an elevation overlay from NASA data, and a box where you can enter the sea level rise in meters.
I think our house is good to 35 meters.
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