I am two days late for this year’s anniversary, but this is just too impressive: Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944.
Make sure to click on the picture to see bigger versions.
(via Justin, thanks! Source: US or Canadian National Archives, via Wikipedia. Public Domain.)
On occasion, people claim I blog about too much geekery, so here you go with some dog content:
Yup, that’s Lizzy, playing with her brand-new rubber chicken. She picked it herself at the store and oh-so-appropriately, it is a Bavarian chicken sporting Lederhosen.
Given her usual aversion to having photos taken of her, I was impressed that I got a set of four pictures before she bailed.
Just in time for the recent 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, boston.com’s Big Picture has a great collection of photos — both contemporary and recent — that show what the Wall once looked like, and how it looks now. This is great!
In response to the birthdays I mentioned in my last post, Google has two topical logos today.
The American site, google.com, honors Sesame Street:
… while google.de remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Quite the contrast.
Fred Wenzel is a Software Engineer at Mozilla. fredericiana is his blog about the things he runs across between American West Coast and southern Germany.
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