Today in History!

1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.

1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

1877 – Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.

1911 – Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (IBM) is incorporated.

1992 – The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the USA to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.

The best story among these is probably Flipper's. Take fifteen minutes from your day and read it.

This Date in History:

Some favorites:

1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".

1938 – Action Comics issue one is released, introducing Superman.

1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books), which was originally instituted in 1557.

So it works, kind of...

More testing.

What I'd like to do is put my Google Reader's "shared" items into facebook as posts, in real time. Facebook's "imported sites" doesn't like to do this in a timely manner for me - the application is broken.

What may have just exploded your feeds with 20 articles, was me substituting my public Reader page ( http://www.google.com/reader/shared/electrodyne ) for my public page (on which I am making this post).

In a perfect world, this little slice of google here (my blogspot page) would collect all my personal interest crap (reader, buzz, et cetera) and then push it to Facebook. That way I'd only need to link one application...

A test!

Here I am testing methods of interconnectivity to Facebook.

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