Before Gmail, there was Garfield Mail

The domain, Gmail.com was created on August 13, 1995. Google acquired the domain Gmail.com sometime between early March and July of 2000. The Gmail email service was offered to the public a few years later on April 1st, 2004. What was Gmail.com before Google owned it? Garfield mail. That's right, fans of the obese cartoon cat, which grosses between $750 million and $1 billion annually, could set up an email account ending in @gmail.com.

I could only imagine the embarrassment of explaining your email account to someone prior to Google's acquisition. 

Are you holding my poke?

A friend pointed out to me yesterday that you can tell from your own Facebook account, if someone you have poked has either "held onto it" or erased it.

Try it yourself: simply re-poke somebody you've poked in the past. (To clarify, somebody who has not poked you back.) You'll get one of two messages. A) "You have poked xxxx." or B) "xxxx has not received your last poke yet. He'll get it the next time he logs in." If you receive the first message, then that means that they've either hidden your poke, or (this is obvious) have poked you back. This is fine.

However, assuming it's been a few days, if you get the second message, then that indicates that they have in fact received your last poke, they're just holding onto it.

What's the big deal? It's another tool for stalkers. Is this a shocking, huge security breach? No, absolutely not. But it is more information that can be interpreted about what you're doing and what you're thinking.

The Furthest Men from Home: Apollo 13.

Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970 with astronauts James Lovell, Fred Haise Jr. and John "Jack" Swigert. Intended to be the third mission to the moon, the astronauts had to scrap their plans and limp their way home after an oxygen tank exploded, which damaged the craft that would have landed them on the lunar surface. Edit: Damaged the command module. They could have landed, but wouldn't have been able to return home. (These events and their journey home are the basis of the 1995 hit movie, "Apollo 13", starring Tom Hanks.)

An interesting, yet often overlooked fact, is that these three men are the furthest humans to travel from Earth. Ever. The gerry-rigged return home had them swing further out into the moons orbit, which slung shot them back to Earth. This wider orbit pushed them out to the peak of 248,655 miles from Earth's surface, 60 miles further than any other mission.[1] One could say that this is trivial compared to other launches, considering they were only at a greater altitude by approximately 0.0002%, but nonetheless, still a fun fact.

[1]: 1992 Guinness Book of World Records, page 118.
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