This, being the fourteenth day of the third month, is National Pi Day -- a day to recognize the mathematical constant of pi. In this video, the daughter of YouTube user kurtgodden recited the first 500 digits of pi in 90 seconds. She's memorized the first 2,300.
Flickr user migpix captions this photo as "Zentradi child being held up by a Valkyrie Veritech Fighter VF-1S in Battloid mode." If I remember Robotech correctly, the sizing is just about spot on. But did the Zentradi in that series have actual children, or just clones? It's been too long for me to remember clearly. Anyway, to this day, I regret not having the Ulpio Minucci's theme to Robotech as the processional music at my wedding. That is one awesome piece of music.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/migpix/5519755067/in/pool-69453349@N00 via Make | Photo: Macross Wedding Cake
This is just the right way to start the day! Look at the top of the picture. The bedroom is on the other side of the glass. Roll out of bed, drop into the waterslide, and head into the pool. This luxury home (for sale!) in Bowdon, UK, has everything one could ask for.
http://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/details/property/429380/referrer/search/for-sale/Bowdon-Cheshire.html via Super Punch | Photo: Country Life
Footprints is a classic short item American Christian prose and can be found framed in many homes. The theology of this Star Wars version is questionable, but awesome. I have no idea who created this most excellent variation.
HAC:Manchester, a hackerspace community in Manchester, UK, made a huge Etch A Sketch. The image is projected onto the screen from the rear. An arduino controller permits the knobs to be used in the traditional manner of the classic toy. Shaking the screen, as the user above is doing, gradually erases the screen -- again, just like with an actual Etch A Sketch.
The ever-clever Dominic Wilcox (whose work we have featured extensively on Neatorama), has a few suggestions about how to improve the agony of waiting in line. This is great unless you're the first in line, but that case, you've nothing to get upset about.
Forbes presents an interactive county map of the United States that shows where people are moving. Just click on a county to view where new arrivals came from or people are going to. You can also select from nine major metropolitan areas.
A woman was due to appear in court in Amherst, Virginia. So, naturally, she stuffed a small monkey into her bra before entering the courthouse:
The woman brought along the palm-sized marmoset to a proceeding in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in Amherst County, Va. Apparently, officials actually didn't notice the clinging creature until the woman went to an office to do some paperwork.
"I can't understand why the deputy didn't see her - she was peeking out," the woman told The Lynchburg News & Advance.
When the woman referred to a daughter, a puzzled official asked where the daughter was and the woman pulled the monkey out of her bra, the newspaper reported.
Steve Murray of Canada's National Post imagined how Hollywood would treat classics from children's literature and comics, such as Humpty Dumpty, the Gingerbread Man, and Peanuts. Dr. Seuss titles in particular would seem to lend themselves well to horror movies.
Alternate history asks what the world would be like if certain events in the past were somehow different. Shaun Clayton of Topless Robot has looked into geek history (TR prefers the term 'nerd', but that's a debate for another day) and unearthed six horrifying possibilities. Let's say, for example, Star Trek was revived prematurely with the proposed Star Trek: Phase II. Or Stephen King died of his injuries after getting hit by a van in 1999:
As much as people may debate the end of The Dark Tower series as being good, bad or "whaaa?" there is a far worse ending for The Dark Tower -- never getting finished. Somewhere there's a universe where, on a June afternoon, while taking a walk by the side of the road, King is struck by the minivan that hit him in our reality and dies in 1999. The Dark Tower series would end at Wizard and Glass and be unresolved. Further, anything Stephen wrote after that point does not exist. You may not like anything he wrote over the past 11 years, but just imagine that you have to imagine what he wrote over the past 11 years, like Cell, From a Buick 8, and Faithful, in which King relates his giddy experience in watching the Boston Red Sox finally win a World Series. If there were anything for King himself to want to exist in our universe for, it would be that.
By the way -- if you're a fan of alternate history (as I am), you should check out the work of Peter G. Tsouras. He is, IMHO, the best alternate history writer ever. Yes, even better than Turtledove.
Phil Pauley's decidedly imaginative and optimistic proposal for an oceanographic research vehicle is a submersible tank. A three-person crew would pilot a lithium battery-powered boat for two to four weeks at depths of up to 4,000 meters below the surface of the ocean.
Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic, a newspaper seller in Mexico, is a big fan of actress Julia Roberts. So much, in fact, that he's had her face tattooed all over his body 82 times:
He splashed out HUNDREDS of pounds on the tattoos after seeing Roberts in her film Erin Brockovich.
In the film Roberts plays a legal assistant who nearly single-handedly brings down a power company.
Miljenko, 56, said he wanted to get the tattoos after being inspired by various scenes in the Oscar-winning movie.
You can see several pictures of Miljenko's tattoos at the link. I've left a puppy as the picture for this post because (1) The Sun doesn't like other sites using their photos and (2) you might not want to see the pictures if you're eating.
Sistema Alternator is a huge sculpture made out of an aluminum frame and welded circuit boards. The whole piece uses various recycled computer parts, such as keyboards for lips. There's a chair inside for a video presentation. The sculpture was made by Colectivo GIB, an Argentine art collective consisting of Cristina Galera, Pablo Irrgang, and Florencia Botindari.
Wolfgang Matzl selected images from Victorian prints, put them on paper, and presented this rather original stop motion animated summary of Inception. It was his entry in a contest which asked filmmakers to create a movie no more than sixty seconds long.
