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About the fruitfly: Whether the fruitfly in the margin entertains or annoys, it serves a very real and useful purpose. The fly uses recently developed sentinelware. In short, the image is generated by the output of many, many active server monitoring processes. When abnormal server activity is detected by the "fly system," the fly's appearance deviates from the default, and a system exception raises a flag that is immediately addressed by the humans who monitor the server via the fruitfly's movements and morphology. Until fairly recently, server issues weren't always obvious, and if so, isolating and mending them was an arduous exercise. The fruitfly technology has made the plight of the server technician much more bearable. If the fruitfly annoys you, click in the center of the lens flare to swat it.
Today is Tuesday, the 18th day of August and the 229th day of 2026. Most of the United States is under Daylight Saving Time (DST) at the moment. It will end on November 1st at 2:00 AM when clocks "fall back" one hour. While many countries observe DST, the beginning and ending dates and times vary so as to add another layer of confusion to the scheme.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 5th day of Elul in the year 5786.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 5 days, 8 hours, and 52 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Friday, September 11th at 9:55 AM. The next full moon will occur on Thursday, August 27th at 3:33 PM. For now, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter are visible in the night sky. Mercury can be seen in the eastern sky just before dawn. Looking into the night sky, far beyond our Solar System neighbors, we see that we are under the constellation of Leo.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:46 AM
and
7:57 PM,
giving us 13 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
There are 35 days until the end of summer, marked by the Vernal, or Autumnal, Equinox. On the day of the Equinox, the sun can be observed to be directly above the equator, and the night and day are the same length. The actual crossing of the sun over the equator takes approximately two and a half days. The equinox occurs halfway through the transit when the center of the sun is directly over the equator. This year, the exact crossing time will be 9:51 am Greenwich Mean Time on Sunday, September 23rd.
On this day in 1938, the Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York and Ontario over the Saint Lawrence River, was dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Virginia Dare (1587), Antonio Salieri (1750), Meriwether Lewis (1774), Henry Drummond (1851), Max Factor, Jr. (1904), Enoch Light (1907), Casper Weinberger (1917), Shelley Winters (1920), Rosalynn Carter (1927), V.S. Naipaul (1932), Roman Polanski (1933), Robert Redford (1936), Martin Mull (1943), Patrick Swayze (1952), Edward Norton (1969), Erik "Everlast" Schrody (1969), Christian Slater (1969), and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970).
Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, born on this day 99 years ago
The Technology
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