Today's Buzz: Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Posted February 5, 2008, 4:12 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Tuesday, February 5, 2008. There are 330 days left in the year and 273 days left until Election Day.

What's Going on Today?

• It's Super Tuesday! That means voters in 24 states will either head to the polls or line up to caucus to cast their votes in the presidential primary. More than 1,000 delegates are up for grabs, just less than the half needed to secure a party's nomination.
• Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler! It's Mardi Gras in the Big Easy. Follow the action all day long by checking out TV station WDSU's livestreams and viewer pictures.
  

GBNEWS
A-Block
Super Tuesday Showdown is Here (Reuters)
Election Guide (NY Times)
Today's Votes Could Bring Dominance, Deadlock (Boston Globe)
Paper Ballots Could Delay California Results (CNN)
Aruba Sees Secret Video in Halloway Case (Yahoo)
Bob Knight Retires Effective Immediately (ABC News)


B-Block
Dig This: GB Ukulele Orchestra Rocks Smells Like Teen Spirit (YouTube)
Luck Counts: 10 Accidential Inventions That Changed the World (pocketgadget.org)
How to Write a Movie in a Month (filmscriptwriting.com)


Today's GB Birthdays:

Happy birthday to GB member Al Pallas! Click on his name to send him a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:

Legendary baseball player Hank Aaron is 74. Actor Stuart Damon ("General Hospital") is 71. Football player Craig Morton is 65. Actress Barbara Hershey ("Beaches") is 60. R&B singer Bobby Brown is 39.

On This Day:

In 1953: Walt Disney's "Peter Pan," about a boy who refuses to grow up (sound familiar?), opens at the Roxy Theater in New York City.

In 1958: The U.S. Air Force loses a hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.

In 1969: Vince Lombardi becomes part owner, vice president, general manager and head coach of the Washington Redskins.

In 1972: Bob Douglas becomes the first African-American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

In 1989: Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes the first NBA player to score 38,000 points.

Today's Thought:

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
-- Vince Lombardi



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