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Today would have been George Harrison’s 68th birthday.
Via email: All day today, you can watch streaming internet video of the Concert for George that was performed at the Royal Albert Hall on the first anniversary of George’s death. It’s an excellent show, and a fine tribute to a great soul.
If you’re like me, you’re probably never going to get into space, even though it’s something you’ve dreamed about your whole life. I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to settle for IMAX movies and amusement rides for your space experience.
But NASA is offering to send your face and name into earth orbit on one of the two final Space Shuttle missions.
If earth orbit isn’t ambitious enough for you, NASA is also offering to send your name to Mars, encoded on a microchip on a future lander.
Listen, I once felt a little thrill, during a long distance phone call, at the thought that my electronically-encoded voice might be bouncing off a communications satellite. If this the only way this space nut gets into space, it will do.
(Thanks to dealmac.)
The Voice of America: Richie Havens sings “Freedom” 40 years after the original Woodstock concert.
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s 202nd birthday.
I really should mark the occasion in some way, so here’s Chris Vallillo playing “The Battle Cry of Freedom”.
Thanks, Abe.