Archives: December1969

• Friday the 13th Superstitions Get Rare Workout in 2009

  2009 is nearly over, and if you believe in Friday the 13th superstitions, that’s a good thing—this year packs the most Friday the 13ths possible. Find out why 2009 is ominously overpacked and where those superstitions came from.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Sesame Street Goes Green at 40–But Warming “Too Scary”

  With help from Michelle Obama, Sesame Street kicked off its Google-hyped 40th-anniversary season Tuesday—the first in new a two-year environmental-education effort. “Scary” issues like global warming, though, are off-limits.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Internet Turns 40: First Message Crashed System

  Forty years after the first simple network message crossed California and crashed the Internet’s precursor, the system’s current ubiquity leaves at least one of its creators “surprised and totally pleased.”