Who doesn’t love a story that combines a day off, a road trip, the circus, Abraham Lincoln and Facebook, and a neat parable on innovation to boot – whatever THAT is. It’s a circus I say!

Shout out to this wonderful story by Nate St. Pierre:

A patent request for Facebook, filed by Abraham Lincoln in 1845.

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So that’s what I did on my day off: a random road trip, a circus graveyard, a poker game between a showman and a president, and the discovery that good ol’ Honest Abe was a man well ahead of his time.

http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/08/abraham-lincoln-patent-facebook/