Thursday, June 23, 2005

A day for geeks, poets and perverts

It's a noble day for geeks, poets, and perverts, three of my favorite kinds of people. Via the Writers Almanac I learned that today is the birthday of:

Alan Turing (1912): Father of modern computing. Instrumental in breaking the Enigma code. He helped us win WWII, and was rewarded by persecution for his homosexuality.

Anna Akhmatova (1888): Great Russian poet. I'm assuming that Languagehat or frequent hat commentator Tatyana will post something about her later today. As Russian speakers, they are far more qualified on this topic than I.

Alfred Kinsey (1894): Founder of modern sexology. Broke the news that, yes, indeed, everyone masturbates. The book that bore this horrific news earned the title "fourth most harmful book of the last 200 years" from the far right magazine Human Events.

To honor today, please do something geeky, poetic and perverted. Bonus points if you tell the whole internet about it.

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