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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:59 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/ ... 3204.shtml
"On February 5, 1897, 111 years ago today, the Indiana legislature very nearly passed a bill 'introducing a new mathematical truth,' that would have erroneously established pi as the ratio 'five-fourths to four' or 3.2. The story explaining the rationale behind the bill and how they were prevented from legislating it when a real mathematician intervened is quite interesting, because the man who discovered the 'new mathematical truth' wanted to charge royalties, which could have made pi the first form of irrational property."
http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... ntech_0205
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/crd/Localg ... i_bill.htm
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~hr/numb/pi-irr.html
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1155
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:52 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Remember those funny TV ads about a device that would send out an audible signal only mosquitoes could hear?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 356157.ece
Apparently, they have them for kids in Britain.
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:13 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
The news has become more of a sham:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chez-pazi ... 87282.html?
Blog of the guy CNN just fired........for having a blog. Good read on the state of the news reporting today.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:54 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Britain to install sensors that detect how much blood and fluid are in your car:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10851
It will be used to catch people faking passengers in the HOV lane.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:07 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Particle accelerator sued on fears that it will destroy the world:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-990544 ... 47-1_3-0-5
I guess somebody is suffering from Black Mesa complex, eh?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:34 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Super sh!tty deal for this guy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7326736.stm
Credit card gets stolen when the guy buys online, thieves buy child pr0n, he goes to jail, gets fired from his job, finally gets his name cleared, and now works a job for a quarter of what he used to.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 4:11 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Hackers compromise an epilepsy forum and put flashing pictures throughout it:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jEG2 ... gD90H3NV01
Funny, but that's pretty d!ckish.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:01 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Volcano that causes a lightning storm:
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/07 ... no-images/
Looks like a weapon outta a Bond flick. Pretty awesome even if all you do is look at the pics.
Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:52 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:55 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Do half the stuff we did at NDHS?
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12156
Face 38 years in prison.
Re: NSFW--News Stories That Make You Say "WTF?!"
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:09 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Re: NSFW--News Stories That Make You Say "WTF?!"
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:37 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Carry candy in a sock?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scot ... 554912.stmGet charged with carrying a weapon. Ah, those crazy Brits.
Re: NSFW--News Stories That Make You Say "WTF?!"
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:13 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
You're getting old:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_ ... ndset_listAnd here's a list of things that have happened to prove it.
Re: NSFW--News Stories That Make You Say "WTF?!"
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:19 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Dude gets a tapeworm from undercooked salmon?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tapewo ... ref=rss_usI thought this was the best quote of the article:
According to the Web site mayoclinic.com, tapeworms can measure up to 50 feet long.
Re: NSFW--News Stories That Make You Say "WTF?!"
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:29 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
WTF awesome?
http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/ ... 2229.shtmlPeople leaving time capsules with 2000 year span so that people of the future know what we're like. Modern day Rosetta stones.