In addition to being the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend, tomorrow, May 25 is also:
* National Missing Children's Day: May 25 was the day that 6-year-old New York boy Etan Patz disappeared in 1979; National Missing Children's Day was established in 1983 to remember the missing and raise awareness.
[via Al's Morning Meeting]
* Towel Day, which commemorates the life of author Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- here's a photo of my own copy, which Boss Bob (another late great) gave me:Douglas Adams is kind of a geek icon; he also determined that the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything" is... 42.
As to why towels? It's "...about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
[link via BoingBoing]
Thanks -- Joe
Thursday, May 24, 2007
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3 comments:
And here in the uk ,it is 'Silver Surfers day '...love Jan xx
Hi Jan -- thanks for the heads-up -- I will mention it today or tomorrow. -- Joe
Let's hope that May 25, 2007, will bring back little Madeleine McCann, missing in Portugal.
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