US visitor's survival guide

(via mendel)

"There are a lot of nuances to life in the US that you can only learn by living here. Nevertheless, we will try to introduce you to some of the more important cultural differences."

May be interesting both to Americans ("What? You mean it's not like this everywhere?") and non-Americans ("They do what in the States?").

Still no leap second

NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2005. The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is :

from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 s

Read the entire announcement ("Bulletin C", issue 29).

Over six years now without a leap second: I believe that's one of the longest such periods in recent history.