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Good afternoon. This website is a demonstration of smart content rendering. The content updates continuously without the help of Internet monkeys. All the information was current at the time you arrived here. Today is Sunday, the 14th day of June and the 164th 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 times vary, as with the Sun as we see it, of course.
On the Jewish calendar, today is the 29th day of Sivan in the year 5786.
We are approaching a new moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 29 days, 5 hours, and 7 minutes. The next new moon occurs today at 7:43 PM. The next full moon will occur on Monday, June 29th at 2:05 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 Lunar and Solar System neighbors, we see that We are under the sign of Gemini.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:13 AM
and
8:24 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1789, whiskey distilled from maize was first produced by clergyman Reverend Elijah Craig. It's named Bourbon because Reverend Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), John McCormack (1884), May Allison (1890), Margaret Bourke-White (1906), Burl Ives (1909), Dorothy McGuire (1918), Pierre Salinger (1925), Marla Gibbs (1931), Sheriff Joe Arpaio (1932), Donald Trump (1946), Paul O'Grady (1955), Boy George (1961), Yasmine Bleeth (1968), Faizon Love (1968), Steffi Graf (1969), Lang Lang (1982), and Montgomery Edward Scott (2160).
Today in History: President Harding, Technophile
On this day in 1922, President Warren G. Harding, while addressing a crowd at the dedication of a memorial site for the composer of the "Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key, became the first president to have his voice transmitted by radio. The broadcast heralded a revolutionary shift in how presidents addressed the American public. It was not until three years later, however, that a president would deliver a radio-specific address. That honor went to President Calvin Coolidge.
In 1920, radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announced that Harding was the official winner of that year's presidential election. it was the first time election returns were broadcast live. Harding was an advocate for advanced technology. In 1923, he recorded a speech on an early "phonograph" that recorded and played back sound on wax discs. Harding was also the first president to own a radio and was the first to have one installed in the White House. (Source: History.com)
Today's quote is from Gunshow, the first episode of the tenth season (1999) of Law and Order. Judge Wright is played by Ron McLarty... and as we all know, ADA Jack McCoy, for countless seasons, was played by Sam Waterston. And for whatever it's worth, McCoy eventually sat in the big chair in the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
Mr. McCoy, I'm not going to sanction a verdict that cannot possibly be sustained on appeal. This conviction isn't based on any proven facts. It's based on the jury's outrage at Mr. Webber's irresponsible and inexcusable conduct. You want to end the violence, the bloodletting. So do I, Mr. McCoy. In my thirty years on the bench I've seen every permutation of it and it sickens me when somebody profits from it! But tempted, though I may be, putting Mr. Webber in a jail won't end the carnage. Until we cure what ails the human heart it won't make a dent in the body count. In the meantime, no matter how profound our grief, our indignation, I can't let you use this court to raise a lynch mob. I won't allow you to exploit the same base actions that Mr. Webber counts on to beef up his bottom line. It's not about being right, Mr. McCoy. It's about doing right.
Judge Wright
The Technology
This site is a working demonstration of on-demand PHP scripting. The code tightly integrates computed and imported data with text, spewing forth natural-sounding narrative output with flawless grammar and syntax. The birthdays, history section and the text below--which all change daily--are from an in-house database. Raw data used in the financial and weather sections is imported at page generation time. All the other data, particularly the celestial stuff, is derived and rendered by several hundred lines of code at the time the page is generated at the Linux/Apache server.
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