15 Years, 4 Days

This is an anniversary I'm sure most of us forgot. 15 years before the night I was coding my dumb little 'Orbit' applet, a series of events came together to produce an astounding cataclysm. The juggernaut of the USSR ran off the rails and into a great big pile of cow pie.


I have a sick curiosity - more of an impulse - to be there that night and watch the thing light up. I would gladly take a good dose just to have seen it. It is, after all, like an immense train wreck that I just can't help but see. Here is an article that spells out just what happened.

Here are some pictures. It's so very hard to really see the tragedy, though. You just have to guess what it must taste like.