February 29
Better Than News
The Five Stages of Grift is a reality television news program sponsored by Extract of Radium.
Are You Sure
• ... that American inventor Herman Hollerith developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting; and that Hollerith founded The Tabulating Machine Company, which was consolidated in 1911 with three other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed IBM?
• ... that Quantum of Software is a 2008 spy film about an MI6 software developer (Daniel Craig) who must stop an advanced quantum computer (Colossus) from staging a global coup d'état; and that the film co-stars Ada Lovelace as M?
On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction
1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
Topic of the Day
Richard Nixon
"Pictures of Nixon" is a song by We Thoh.
"To smear your enemies during Investigative Committee witch hunts, see them humiliated before you in the House and Senate, and to hear the lamentation of their Commie Pinko lackeys in the press!" (Nixon the Barbarian)