Today is Wednesday, March 1, the 60th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 305 days remaining.
Today is Ash
Wednesday;
There are:
11 days until Daylight
Saving Time begins;
16 days until St.
Patrick's Day;
19 days until the
arrival of Spring;
31 days until April
Fools' Day;
39 days until Palm
Sunday;
40 days until First
Day of Passover;
44 days until Good
Friday;
46 days until Easter
Sunday;
47 days until US Federal
Income Tax filing day;
48 days until Last
Day of Passover;
52 days until Earth
Day;
58 days until Arbor
Day;
65 days until Cinco
de Mayo;
74 days until Mother's
Day;
89 days until Memorial
Day;
625 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
1,421 days until the end of Donald
Trump's term as President, assuming he isn't impeached.
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On this date in 1936, the construction consortium Six Companies turned Hoover Dam over to the Federal government, two years ahead of schedule.
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Among other things, today is also National Pig Day, "to accord the pig its rightful, though generally unrecognized, place as one of man's most intellectual and domesticated animals."
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Florida man deposits cocaine in bank ATM.
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Some persons born on March 1 who said interesting things:
- Harry Belafonte (1927), American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist;
- Robert Bork (1927-2012), American judge and legal scholar;
- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), American novelist, literary critic, and scholar;
- Robert Hass (1941), American poet;
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (1942), IBM chairman and CEO from 1993 to 2002 ;
- William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright;
- Robert Lowell (1917-1977), American poet;
- David Niven (1910-1983), English actor and novelist;
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), Israeli politician, statesman and general;
- Richard Wilbur (1921), American poet and literary translator;
Quote of the day:
"The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should
be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy,
oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom
is worse than those failings."
-Robert Bork
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"Our energy-consuming way of life may be causing climatic changes, with adverse consequences for us all... if the threat of global warming is to be realistically addressed, the future will need to be different." A 1991 film by Shell Oil, which apparently forgot about it, given the money it's been spending lobbying against climate change.
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Amazon is fighting a request by police for data possibly gathered by an Echo device that "witnessed" a murder. First amendment defense is commendable, but why are recordings and data stored on Amazon's servers at all?
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If you have a CloudPet, the internet-connected teddy bears have leaked 800,000 customer credentials and two million messages. And, they can easily be hacked and turned into remote listening devices.
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It shouldn't be much of a surprise to learn that some hyper-partisan left- and right- wing websites pushing opposite spins of the news share the same corporate parent.
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A big outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday afternoon caused major web disruptions. Amazon wasn't able to update its own service health dashboard for the first two hours of the outage because the dashboard itself was hosted on AWS.
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DNA tests show Subway chicken in Canada 50% chicken, 50% something else.
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