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[edit] Library Lines - Belmont Citizen-Herald

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[edit] Brandon firing was probably fair; ask Cyrus - Toledo Free Press

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[edit] New Dashboard Design

5 December 2008, by Matt You’ve probably gotten tired of hearing about it from us, but the day has finally come and the new dashboard is finally here. It’s now immediately available to everyone on WordPress.com. Change is always tricky, but pretty much everyone who has already switched to the new design and layout (that we affectionately call Crazyhorse) prefers it [...]

[edit] Temple of Wat Chedi Luang @ Chiang Mai (Thailand) on Flickr ...

4 December 2008, by unknown Bonjour, je suis l'administrateur du groupe In Fine Style (Invite only) contest "Dance" - Posting, et nous aimerions beaucoup que vous ajoutiez ceci à notre groupe ! bonjour Mr pi :) bises. Posted 10 hours ago. ( permalink ) ...

[edit] Multi-agency task force to combat smuggling at nation's largest ...

4 December 2008, by unknown Last month, CBP officers discovered more than 140 pounds of cocaine concealed inside concrete cylinders being shipped from Mexico through the Port of Los Angeles to Australia. Investigators estimate the drug would have sold for as much ...

[edit] Happy Anniversary, Harry - Examiner.com

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[edit] Brave and best - Northern Echo

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[edit] On the Ancient Babylonian Value for Pi « The Number Warrior

3 December 2008, by unknown Because this is given as an actual fixed ratio (rather than being extrapolated from a circle area procedure) it’s arguably the first discovered value for \pi . It’s also intruiging in that relating the inscribed polygon to the circle is ...

[edit] PI continues into 2007 murder of businessman - The Freeport News

3 December 2008, by

[edit] 2.7 Gets Here in Two Days!

3 December 2008, by Jane Wells As promised, here is the advance notice that WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. That’s 5pm Thursday in California, 1am Friday in London (UTC), 8am Friday in Jakarta, noon on Friday in Sydney…find your time here. Some people like to learn how to [...]

[edit] Funny review of It's a Wonderful Lie | Watch Gossip Girl Episodes ...

2 December 2008, by unknown Bart plans to head to the ball immediately, but first he asks his PI what he discovered about Lily’s time in the sanitarium. Nate stops Vanessa just as she’s about to hop in a cab to head to Brooklyn. He must have liked what he saw ...

[edit] Round Table: "It's a Wonderful Lie" - Gossip Girl Insider

2 December 2008, by unknown What happened with Lily in the institution that Bart's PI discovered? I think it is clear from spoilers that there is a love child out there. tss Says: December 2nd, 2008 2:47 PM. 1. What was your favorite Gossip Girl quote from the ...

[edit] Go Get A Blavatar

2 December 2008, by Heather Today’s post is dedicated to Chuck Norris: the man, the myth, the legend, and the star in our demo of a brand-new feature: Blavatars. “What-atars?” you say. Blavatars! Blog + avatars. As the incomparable Nikolay explains in the video below, your blavatar automatically becomes your favicon: the little icon that displays next to your blog’s URL in [...]

[edit] Exercising mind & body Pilates and yoga stretch the limits - San Diego Union Tribune

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[edit] Gossip Girl: It's a Wonderful Lie - TV Squad

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[edit] November Wrap-Up

2 December 2008, by Matt Howdy! — or should I say “g’day, mate!” since I’m in Sydney for WordCamp Australia? November was a fun month, and the final month of development for WordPress 2.7 — coming very soon. It’s been an exciting process, and we think you’ll become a big fan of the changes that you’ll see in your dashboards. Here [...]

[edit] Pi is as irrational as always - บางกอกโพส

1 December 2008, by

[edit] Star Trek Light Switches For The Man With Nothing : SCI FI PI ...

1 December 2008, by unknown Have no fear, for the we have discovered excellent diversions for the man who has lost his 'tache. Yes, it's the Star Trek TNG LCARS light switch cover. Turn the everyday act of turning your lights on and off into a futuristic all ...

[edit] Seattle newspaper collector stacks up all the print that can fit - Seattle Times

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[edit] Vancouver's Gateway Securities sold to PI Financial - Vancouver Sun

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[edit] Triumphant return promised - 1970 Triumph 2.5 PI

28 November 2008, by DocDelete I discovered that some noodle had installed an incorrect rocker shaft pedestal, thus throwing out the alignment of the first few pushrods. There’s also a tapping noise coming from the area of the camshaft. Not the kind of thing you’d ...

[edit] Thanksgiving 2008

27 November 2008, by Heather From us at WordPress to you in the States: Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we’ll be passing the turkey and stuffing, and sharing what we’re thankful for. Such as… Jane: “Puppies and rainbows.” Heather: “Good friends, good food, and good websites.” Maya: “Cashew, Peanut, my job, my house, and the sun.” Matt: “The internet.” What about you? What has motivated, inspired, enlivened, [...]

[edit] Givenchy Pi: Wonderfully Sweet, Painfully Discreet!

24 November 2008, by Critic Pi has been eluding me for quite some time. It was always on my wish list but then I'd hear about something a lot more exciting and buy that instead. So it's been a long time coming! I first discovered Pi when a kind basenoter sent me a ...

[edit] Project Icon Winners Announced

17 November 2008, by Jane Wells Congratulations to Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert (that’s BD and VS to those of you who voted), the winning designers of our WordPress 2.7 icon design contest. Read all about it on the development blog and see how your votes stacked up to the rest. Go to The Results of Project Icon.        [...]

[edit] Quiz: Do you know your pi? a.k.a. the cool geek/nerd quiz

14 November 2008, by unknown pi!!!!! good luck! Take this quiz! first didgit? second didgit? third? twenty third? seventh? twelveth? Who discovered pi? what shape is it used with most.

[edit] Vote for the new WordPress icons

13 November 2008, by Jane Wells Update: Voting has closed, and the winners will be announced soon. If you watched the WordPress 2.7 trailer or checked out the screenshots that were posted a couple of weeks ago, you probably noticed the use of icons in the new left-hand navigation. A handful of designers have submitted icon sets in a competition to choose [...]

[edit] October Wrap-Up

10 November 2008, by Matt In October, we celebrated our first billion-impression month, and continued plugging away on WordPress 2.7 — along with a couple of other fun projects, to be announced. Here are last month’s stats:

323,786 blogs were created.

343,832 new users joined. 4,085,148 file uploads. 1995.86 gigabytes of new files. 531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. 8,862,195 comments. 6,680,516 logins. 1,088,583,200 pageviews on WordPress.com, [...]

[edit] If WordPress 2.7 Was A Movie…

7 November 2008, by Jane Wells This would be our trailer. Check out some of the upcoming new features and design changes in this sneak preview video, including how to customize your dashboard, the new comment reply feature, the new navigation system, and the customizable posting screen. When you’re finished watching, take the poll below the video to tell us which [...]

[edit] The Votes Are In

5 November 2008, by Heather Here’s how you voted in our U.S. Presidential Election poll yesterday:

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: 69% John McCain and Sarah Palin: 24% Ralph Nader and Matt Gonzalez: 3% Robert Barr and Wayne Root: 2% Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente: 1% Charles Baldwin and Darrell Castle: 1% And here are the actual results, as of 12 p.m. PST today: Barack Obama and Joe [...]

[edit] AFRICA: ‘Sexually-transmitted grades’ kills quality education

13 October 2008, by DAKAR, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers.  From ‘Sexually Transmitted Grades’ to ‘BF’, or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual ...

[edit] The Day They Discovered Pi: Pi Song 3.1415926535897932384626 ...

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[edit] Three-body problem and WMAP

28 September 2008, by "We all are of the citizens of the Sky" Camille Flammarion In 1858, by the set of its relations, it will allow Camille Flammarion, the 16 years age, to enter as raises astronomer at the Observatory of Paris under the orders of Urbain the Glassmaker, at the office of calculations. See :The Gravity Landscape ...

[edit] DC COMICS DECEMBER 2008 SOLICITATIONS

16 September 2008, by Final Crisis: Secret Files #1 preview Direct from DC Comics, here are the publisher's solicitation copies and preview images for books which are due to ship in December 2008, pre-solicitations for books due to ship in January & February 2009, as well as DC Direct items due to ship in May 2009. Compiled ...

[edit] Eric Burns-White: Also on the list of real life mad scientists I know: the coworker who once rebuilt his laptop into a d...

5 September 2008, by We're getting ready to launch a brand new school year! So I've been, y'know, extra busy this week. Not that anyone's terribly surprised when I disappear for a little while here on the blog. At least this time it wasn't six weeks. One thing I did take the time to do -- said time taking, oh, nine seconds ...

[edit] What Is This Thing Called "Edupunk"?

2 June 2008, by A new sensation is sweeping the nation. English adjuncts with mohawks are rockin’ their classrooms, web 2.0-style! Scrappy science teachers are banging together online learning systems in their garages! Gothic literature professors are turning to Wikipedia for inspiration! It’s a new day… OK, maybe ...

[edit] LAist Interview: Felicia Sullivan, author of The Sky Isn't Visible from Here

9 May 2008, by Author Interview: Felicia Sullivan, The Sky Isn't Visible from Here New York author, media maven and baker extraordinaire Felicia Sullivan is in town this week to read from and sign her Brooklyn-based memoir of family addiction, recovery and hope in The Sky Isn't Visible from Here. Sullivan will be ...

[edit] The end of god-4: The death of god due to other causes

5 May 2008, by (For previous posts in this series, see here.) While developments in science have provided the most powerful arguments against the existence of god in any form, it is not only science that has led to the undermining of traditional religious beliefs. As far as Christianity and Judaism are concerned, ...

[edit] Akon's Con Job

17 April 2008, by APRIL 16--In the hip-hop world, a performer's street cred can often be gauged by the number of entries on their rap sheet, the time they have spent behind bars, or the gritty details of their illicit escapades. By any of those metrics, the chart-topping R&B singer Akon appears to have compiled an ...

[edit] It's All About Your Books Baby

31 March 2008, by Yesterday, the New York Times published an amusing piece about how books impact romance. They start off with a story reference, something we can probably all relate to and have experienced at least once in our lives. A woman breaks up with her boyfriend exclaiming to her friend, "can you believe it! ...

[edit] VALENTINE'S DAY ON 3QD: THE CATCH

11 February 2008, by Manraylipslg Elatia Harris Valentine's Day approaches. Are we a romantic bunch?  Or, what? Last month, the 3QD Valentine's Day Challenge was issued. Learning about the Museum of Broken Relationships in Berlin (it really does exist...), I asked readers to write in with an artifact that deserved to go ...

[edit] 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi

6 February 2008, by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "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 ...

[edit] User:MarkPlayer

2 February 2008, by ←Created page with 'Mark Player made many memorable contributions to the human race during 1999, lets have a look at his accomplishments. LOL *January 1 - Mark was introduced int...' New page Mark Player made many memorable contributions to the human race during 1999, lets have a look at his accomplishments. ...

[edit] BlogBites for October 10, 2007

12 October 2007, by From http://cptjacksparrow.livejournal.com:" YES, it has been confirmed on smashbros.com that Sonic the Hedgehog is a playable character in the third installment in Nintendo's mascot free-for-all multiplayer fighting game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl. " From http://flapsblog.com:" Republican presidential ...

[edit] Readable s-expressions (sweet-expressions) for Lisp-like languages

11 October 2007, by Back in 2006 I posted my basic ideas about "sweet-expressions". Here's a basic recap, before I discuss what's new. Lisp-based programming languages normally represent programs as s-expressions, where an operation and its parameters are surrounded by parentheses. The operation to be performed is identified ...