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 Saturday, the 27th day of June and the 177th 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 12th day of Tammuz in the year 5786.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 12 days, 16 hours, and 27 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Tuesday, July 14th at 8:27 AM. 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 constellation of Cancer.
For today, our sunrise and sunset times (at -96.852/32.847) are
6:16 AM
and
8:27 PM,
giving us 14 hours and 11 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1985, U.S. Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Louis XII (1462), Helen Keller (1880), Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan (1927), H. Ross Perot (1930), James Daughton (1950), Julia Duffy (1951), Tobey Maguire (1975), Drake Bell (1986), and Ed Westwick (1987).
Today in History: Atomic Energy Becomes a Reality
On this day in 1954, the world's first atomic power station began producing electricity in Obninsk, U.S.S.R., a small town 60 miles south of Moscow. The plant used a small, graphite moderated, water-cooled reactor, and could produce 5 megawatts. The reactor was used for both civilan power needs and also military purposes, such as research into the possibility of propelling submarines with nuclear power. It generated electricity until 1968, but continued in use for experiments and to warm the town's centrally distributed hot water supply. Final shutdown took place in 2002, the reason being that the plant was unprofitable. (Source: Today in Science History)
Today's lesson is on myopic thinking.
This "telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876
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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