The Random Walk
Friday, September 26, 2003
  Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Twenty years of civilization owed to one man: Stanislav Petrov. (via Nick Lang via Eirk Riker-Coleman).

We have him to thank for Pets.com, Tatu, Episode I and "Celebrity Holywood Squares."

Of course if the megatonnes had hit the fan, New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon of the time would have been Emperor of the non-glowing world by now.