A happy new year's blip
Can't wait one more second for this abysmal 2008 to end?
Well, I am afraid you don't have any choice.
From our friends at the NYT:
On New Year’s Eve, the international authorities charged with keeping precise time will add a single second to our lives. It will be the 24th “leap second” since 1972, and the first since 2005.If that doesn’t sound like a big deal, consider that in one second a cheetah can dash 34 yards, a telephone signal can travel 100,000 miles, a hummingbird can beat its wings 70 times, and eight million of your blood cells can die.
I plan to spend my New Year's thinking up things that humans can do in one second. Any ideas?
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