Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will be sunny, with a high of eighty and light southeast winds of five to ten mph. Sunrise today is 5:23 am and sunset is 8:21 pm. The moon is a waning crescent with ten percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Google often adds clever, dynamic features to its maps, and one of them is its depiction of the Washington monument: On Google Maps, the Washington Monument Is a Sundial:
Look up the Washington Monument in Google Maps, and the software will show you the obelisk’s shadow. The shadow even moves to reflect the position of the sun….
It’s a fun accent, possible only with the kind of live, dynamic map that Google deploys. (The digital-ness of Google’s maps allows the company to edit its own maps at will, to add previously unknown features or to erase previously known ones.)
Google didn’t need to add the monument’s shadow, but it did, as a kind of homage to the world’s hidden-in-plain-sight details. Of course, Google’s unknown mapmaker wasn’t the first to notice the monument’s shadow.
Link to Google Maps:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington+Monument/
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On this day in 1926, Miles Davis is born.
“So What” – Miles Davis from Sabzian on Vimeo.
On this day in 1889, a future Wisconsin governor is born:
1889 – Governor Oscar Rennebohm born
On this day Oscar Rennebohm was born in Leeds, Columbia County, Wisconsin. Rennebohm was elected lieutenant governor under Walter S. Goodland and took over as governor when Goodland died in 1947. Oscar Rennebohm served as Wisconsin’s governor from 1947 to 1951. He died on October 15, 1968. [Source: First Ladies of Wisconsin, The Governors’ Wives by Nancy G. Williams]