Geeky Holidays Party excuses for the geek in everyone.

Technology Holiday: Programmers’ Day is officially on the books in Russia, but easily celebrated anywhere. It’s the 256th day of the year, natch! (Celebrated on September 12 in leap years.)

Geek Events to celebrate on September 13:

1848 – Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives a 3-foot-plus iron rod being driven through his head; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions.

1956 – IBM introduces the first computer disk storage unit, the RAMAC 305.

1985 – Nintendo releses the original Super Mario Bros. game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

September 13 birthdays of geeky note:

1916 – Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990). He excelled in writing characters, especially for children, who were the underdogs.

1978 – Peter Sunde, Scandinavian entrepreneur who co-founded The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent tracker site. Sunde was interviewed for the 2007 documentary Steal This Film, and discusses copyright, the Internet, and culture as relevant to the copyright lawsuit against him.