Ryan Gardner on March 14th, 2006

Since the numeric abbreviation of March 14th is 3.14 – it’s known as “Pi day” among the nerds. (Nerds in Europe probably don’t get it, since they tend to put the digit of the day of the month first – so they would be celebrating 14.03 day today… which simply isn’t as much fun…) Happy [...]

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Digg.com recently put a new comment system in place. The comment system allows you to edit your comments after you post them – so that you can go back in and change any spelling mistakes… etc – and not have to continue posting comments there. It is a nice feature. I noticed when pasting Pi [...]

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Ryan Gardner on February 14th, 2006

At one time, conversation candies were made into many shapes including horseshoes, baseballs and watches About 8 billion hearts will be produced this year; that’s enough candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Ariz. and back again 20 times The peak selling season for conversation hearts last only six weeks, but confectioners produce the [...]

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