D-Day

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.)

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Dog Content

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.

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Berlin Wall Pictures

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!

The Big Picture: The Berlin Wall

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Topical Google Logos

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:
Google Sesame Street

… while google.de remembers the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Google: Berlin Wall 09

Quite the contrast.

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