Daily Archives: November 27, 2011

Black Friday Sale: Just US $86,000

I’ll let this one speak for itself (in its cheezy sort of way). -via engadget

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Nov 27th

EVENTS

1746 – Robert Livingston, negotiates Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813)
1924
 – First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson makes his first address to Congress as president
1971 – The Soviet space program‘s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

BIRTHS

1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)
1940 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973)
1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998)
1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1944 – My younger brother Martin Apsey (d. 1993)
1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster
1963 – My daughter-in-law Vicki Apsey

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Curiosity Rover Animation

This is how it’s all supposed to happen next August and this is one awesome computer animation complete with sound effects!

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