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 Thursday, the 16th day of July and the 196th 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 2nd day of Av in the year 5786.
We are under a waxing crescent moon. At the time you accessed this page, its exact age was 2 days, 6 hours, and 28 minutes. We will be under a new moon again on Wednesday, August 12th at 9:11 PM. The next full moon will occur on Wednesday, July 29th at 2:49 AM. 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
6:25 AM
and
8:23 PM,
giving us 13 hours and 58 minutes of daylight.
On this day in 1935, the world's first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Today we celebrate the birthdays of Henri Moreau (1728), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Roald Amundsen (1872), Shoeless Joe Jackson (1889), Fritz Mahler (1901), Orville Redenbacher (1907), Barbara Stanwyck (1907), Ginger Rogers (1911), Bess Myerson (1924), Michael Flatley (1958), Will Ferrell (1967), Barry Sanders (1968), and Corey Feldman (1971).
When people ask me why Southern writers like to write about freaks, I tell them it's because we still recognize one when we see it.
Flannery O'Conner (1925-1964)
American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist
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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