NPR has been updating their site recently, adding interactivity to everything - including their 404 pages. Here's a few other things NPR would like you to know are still missing: Amelia Earhart, several minutes of Watergate tapes, Waldo... Ah, NPR: your dry, nerdy humor is always the best. Via.
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In WWII, submarines were built in Wisconsin, but had to get past Nazi subs to reach the ocean. Solution? go cross-country. Nearly 30 subs made it to the Gulf of Mexico, by way of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
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If man walked on the moon today, it would look something like this. The one thing this reveals to me: the amount of hyperbole and excess used by the news industry today, resulting in enough clips to get talking heads sound like they're talking about man on the moon.
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Tune in this afternoon for the moon landing! Kottke has rigged up a website which will show the 1969 moon landing news coverage in realtime, exactly 40 years after the real one. See also.
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The internet's fluidity of content is legend, so this might change soon, but I found it ironically appropriate. On the Wikipedia page for "Jack of all trades, master of none", exists a large banner at the top which reads, "This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject." On second thought, that banner may be there for quite a while; being an expert of any sort is not in the cards for a jack of all trades.
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