The Onion explains how.

Like everyone else in the country who was old enough to be conscious of events 40 years ago this evening, I vividly remember watching the grainy black-and-white boot of Neil Armstrong on the ladder of Eagle, the lunar module, as he prepared to step onto the surface of the moon. No one wanted to blink, lest you miss the singularly historic moment, and few did.

Here’s NASA’s official Apollo 11 page. Here’s a terrific Apollo 11 photo essay over on Boston.com. And here’s an article from the New York Times about people who believe that photo up there is a fake.

Fake or not, the incredible sense of can-do optimism that gripped the nation and closed out the ’60s was very real. The country could use a good shot of that collective attitude right about now.

Nine Inch Nails did something similar two years ago, but Muse is getting a lot of press with more or less the same idea right now. It may not be an original marketing idea, but it sure is fun.

Well, not exactly, but this story from Ars Technica about Amazon deleting books from users’ Kindles lives at the intersection of interesting, unsettling and ironic.

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
—Duke Ellington