"Fish Heads" is a novelty song by comedy rock duo Barnes and Barnes, featured on their 1980 album Voobaha. It has often been played on the Dr. Demento show, and is the second-most honored song in Demento show history. The song is about fish heads and all the things they can (or, more often, cannot) do, such as playing baseball, wearing sweaters, dancing, playing drums, or being seen drinking cappuccino in Italian restaurants with Oriental women. It is accompanied by a high-pitched chorus, achieved by speeding up the tape, which repeats the original's chorus. Actor Bill Paxton directed a...

Flag day, as used in system administration, is a change which requires a complete restart or conversion of a sizable body of software or data. The change is large and expensive, and—in the event it doesn't work—reversing the change is similarly difficult and expensive. This usage originates from a change in the Multics operating system's definition of ASCII, which was scheduled for the U.S. holiday, Flag Day, on June 14, 1966. Another flag day was January 1, 1983, when the ARPANET changed from NCP to the TCP/IP protocol suite. References