Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant Ï€ (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in American date format), due to Ï€ being equal to roughly 3.14. Sometimes it is celebrated on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. (commonly known as Pi Minute). If Ï€ is truncated to seven decimal places, it becomes 3.1415926, making March 14 at 1:59:26 p.m., Pi Second (or sometimes March 14, 1592 at 6:53:58 a.m.). Pi Approximation Day may be observed on any of several dates, most often July 22 (22/7 (European date format) is a popular approximation of Ï€). March 14 also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.
The first Pi Day celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, and then consuming fruit pies; the museum has since added pizza pies to its Pi Day menu. The founder of Pi Day, the “Prince of Pi”, is Larry Shaw, now retired from the Exploratorium, but still helping out with the celebrations. They have also recently added the first Pi Day celebrations in Second Life.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology often mails out its acceptance letters to be delivered to prospective students on Pi Day.
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Breaking-up - some do it with a text, others with a letter, the brave in person, but Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, used the online encyclopedia to dump his girlfriend.
But the jilted one-time Fox News pundit Rachel Marsden is having her revenge and suitably enough it’s online.
Right now anyone who cares enough – or cares too much – can own a little bit of this virtual saga. Marsden has put items of clothing belonging to the Wikipedia founder, universally known as ‘Jimbo’, on the auction site eBay.
Marsden can be seen modelling the dark coloured T-shirt on eBay. She claims he was wearing it when they met. Bidding is heavy and is expected to pass the $500 mark by this evening.
Explaining her unruly hair in the photograph of her in Wales’s T-Shirt she wrote at the bottom of the page: “PS: Sorry that my hair is such a mess - I’m in break-up mode right now and really couldn’t be bothered.”
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Hollywood mega-director Steven Spielberg is reportedly setting up a social network for people interested in paranormal and extra-terrestrial activity, inspired by his own personal experiences with the unknown.
The focus of the network will be on people who have an interest in, or have experienced paranormal phenomena, and the network may feature multimedia content of UFO sightings, paranormal activity and user-based content.
Stories of Speilberg’s own personal experiences with ghosts are widely known; his stay in the Excelsior House led him to become so frightened by alleged ghosts that he fled the room and moved 20 miles away, forming the inspiration for the movie ‘Poltergiest’.
The network may have been originally in development with Yahoo, but the project was abandoned before it was launched. But reports suggest that the idea lives on, and a team of developers are aiming for a mid-year launch.
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SE G700 and G900 - called touchscreen organizers, both have a “sticky notes” feature which you can use with a stylus.
Here are some of the Specs from Sony:
Screen
- 240×320 pixel
- 262.144 color TFT
Memory
- Memory Stick Microâ„¢ (M2â„¢) support
- Phone memory 160MB*
* Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration.
Networks
- GSM 900
- GSM 1800
- GSM 1900
- UMTS 2100
Available colours
- Dark Red - Dark Brown
Sizes
- 106.0 x 49.0 x 13.0 mm
- 4.2 x 1.9 x 0.5 inches
Weight
- 99.0 gr
- 3.5 o
The MOTO Q Global is a high performance Windows Mobile 6.0 smart phone offering a full integrated QWERTY keyboard, 3.6 Mbps HSDPA, 325 MHz applications processor, 128MB RAM and GPS, among many additional features and capabilities. It offers robust Email & Messaging services including personal email with Xpress Mail, corporate email with Good Mobile Messaging, Microsoft Direct Push and Blackberry Connect, and SMS, IM and MMS. It supports AT&T Music, Video and Media Mall services for capture and playback of photos, music, games and video. Finally, it provides a category-leading 3G browser experience with Opera.
Features :
* Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone with integrated GPS
* 3G capable for high-speed simultaneous voice and data
* Integrated GPS for Telenav Maps and Navigator
* 2.0 megapixel camera with LED flash
* Bluetooth® Wireless 2.0 with stereo headset support
* Windows Mobile 6 with Direct Push Technology
* Edit Microsoft Word or Excel files and view PowerPoint
* AT&T Music, Billboard, Music ID, XM, Napster, Yahoo
* Cellular Video capable - Get news, sports, and video
* Good Mobile Messaging, Outlook, IMAP and POP3 email
* Instant messaging using AOL®, Yahoo!® and MSN®
* Quad-band world phone with dual-band UMTS/HSDPA
* Strong Battery Life - Up to 9 hours of talk and 30 days standby
* MicroSD(TM) removable memory expands up to 32 GB
* Microsoft Internet Express for surfing the internet
* Windows Media Player 10 Mobile
* BlackBerry Connect support available in 2008
* Text, picture, and video messaging
* One-touch dedicated access keys
* Speakerphone
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A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.”The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance policy,” Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told delegates at the opening ceremony. “It is the Noah’s Ark for securing biological diversity for future generations.”
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya were among the dozens of guests who had bundled up for the ceremony inside the vault, about 425 feet deep inside a frozen mountain.
“This is a frozen Garden of Eden,” Barroso said.
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