Today is March 4th, or, as we like to spell it, March Fo(u)rth. It’s the only date, as far as we know, that is also a command. (We have spent some time thinking about this.)
Urban Dictionary notes that “March Fourth” is a “holiday where you work toward achieving your dreams…This holiday is Read More
Today is Blue Monday, a pseudoscientifical holiday of Depression that occurs on the third opening weekday of every January and can be dated back to 2005, when it was invented by psychologist Dr. Cliff Arnall as part of a British Sky Travel campaign ad. The formula to find Blue Monday was fairly complicated and made a lot of other doctors angry, since it involves calculating in factors such as weather and broken New Year’s resolutions and was originally printed in a mental health journal like it was real.
But just because Blue Monday turned out to be a salacious bit of advertising that doesn’t make logical sense (for example, it leaves one of its terms “d” completely undefined), doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be celebrating it. Read More
