Today is our birthday. We turned four, which means we’re old enough to go to preschool.
Happy 45th birthday, Kurt Cobain. There will never be another one quite like you.
Pictures of Kurt Cobain Looking Happy (Flavorwire)
45 Photos Of Kurt Cobain (BuzzFeed)
Came as he was. As he were. As he wanted to be.
Happy birthday, Kim Jong-Un! The new North Korean leader’s birthday, his first as Supreme Leader of North Korea, was celebrated by the country’s propaganda machine thanks to a documentary that aired on state television. The video reveals him riding a horse, hanging at an amusement park, and … most importantly, suggesting way back in 2009 that he’d be willing to wage war with South Korea and the U.S. if they shot down a North Korean rocket. In other words, bro knows a thing or two about threats.
Today is a significant day in the history of the Internet. On 6 August 1991, exactly twenty years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it. The World Wide Web has its foundation in work that Berners-Lee did in the 1980s at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He had been looking for a way for physicists to share information around the world without all using the same types of hardware and software. This culminated in his 1989 paper proposing ‘A large hypertext database with typed links’. (via 20 years ago today, the World Wide Web was born - TNW Insider)
Thanks Tim, for changing the world. Meant a lot to us.
Let’s celebrate Nelson Mandela’s birthday: New rule: If you live until 93 and become the catalyst for the end of Apartheid, you automatically get a giant cake like this one. (AP Photo)
99% of the world is taking a stand against wars like Iraq and Afghanistan. John would have done that but he’d have loved the new communication media. He would have been writing statements and sending them out to the world as a blogger and a tweeter.Yoko Ono • Suggesting that John Lennon, who would’ve been 70 today, would have used Twitter to protest the Iraq war. Dude did that silly bed-in thing to protest the Vietnam War, so why not? “When we did our bed-ins for peace against Vietnam the world just laughed at us,” she said. Ono, by the way, is getting up there – right now, she’s 77, though her interviewer says she doesn’t look a day over 50. Here’s the REAL question: Would Lennon put up with the crap over their albums not getting on iTunes? Seems like he wouldn’t. source (via)
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