Paul Baran, a giant of early Internet technology, has died at age 84.In the early 1960s, while working at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Baran outlined the fundamentals for packaging data into discrete bundles, which he called “message blocks.” The bundles are then sent on various paths around a network and reassembled at their destination. Such a plan is known as “packet switching.”
Shawn Southwick King tries to determine which lifelike figure is her 77-year-old husband at Madame Tussaud’s on Friday.
Geraldine Ferraro has died at age 75.
“When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely.”Bob Herbert, godblesshim,
Tom Hanks meets a random baby outside the Ed Sullivan Theater while doing the David Letterman show in 2009. I just like the matching expressions (and noses).Things hadn’t started out quite so badly…
Today is the 69th birthday of pop and soul singer Aretha Franklin.
Per her own request!”The service was scheduled to begin at 2 PM but at Miss Taylor’s request
started late. Miss Taylor had left instructions that it was to begin at
least 15 minutes later than publicly scheduled, with the announcement,
‘She even wanted to be late for her own funeral.'”See our biography of Elizabeth Taylor >>
The creative team of ‘The Book of Mormon’ takes a bow after opening on Broadway last night.
Peaches Geldof “puts on her slap at a train station,” says the The Daily Mail. “Puts on her slap”?
If you’re psyched about today’s Houdini doodle by Google, here’s a fine site for you: Wild About Harry.