2000 – 2010: End of Year/End of Decade Lists: Top Five Politically Significant Days of the Decade?
I love lists and I hope you do too. Several lists have occurred to me recently, and I was going to ignore my itch to make them because there are probably lots of good end-of-year lists floating around now. But do any of them take a quantitative approach to list-making? I’m going to try the procedure. How to make an End-Of-Decade List of the most Significant Days of the Decade? Prelude: Several months ago there was a widely-circulated news story about “the most boring day in history”: the finger was pointed at April 11th 1954. William Tunstall-Pedoe’s computer program ‘True Knowledge’ Continue reading 2000 – 2010: End of Year/End of Decade Lists: Top Five Politically Significant Days of the Decade?