Sometimes, in previous years, I've googled around to try to find interesting things about the third of May. For instance, the other year I discovered that I shared a birthday with Machiavelli. (Previously the only person I'd known of who shared my birthday was Jeff Sinclair, who is two hundred and forty-one years younger than me :-)

This year, I didn't need to go looking, because one came to me. Randomly skimming my LJ friends-friends page some months ago, I came across a snippet in Neil Gaiman's blog, who had in turn found it in a book of legends from the Inner Hebrides:

…the third of May, when the Devil and his angels were cast out of heaven (and therefore 3rd May is a day on which no important undertaking should be begun and on which it is unpardonable to commit a crime)…

That is, I would have to say, considerably more awesome than Machiavelli. Sorry, Nick, but there it is.