Monday, April 02, 2007

TASTY!

1. Cobra is the Citizen Kane of Bidgette Nelson movies.

2. Headline + Columnist's picture = Heebie Jeebies

3. Children’s TV rock bands or bad acid trip?

4. Another upstanding citizen employed by Fox News.

5. Sexy Silver Shiny Middle-Aged Men

6. A practical guide to power-napping

7. 100 of the best april fools pranks...

#7: Alabama Changes the Value of PiThe April 1998 issue of the New Mexicans for Science and Reason newsletter contained an article claiming that the Alabama state legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159 to the 'Biblical value' of 3.0. Before long the article had made its way onto the internet, and then it rapidly made its way around the world, forwarded by people in their email. It only became apparent how far the article had spread when the Alabama legislature began receiving hundreds of calls from people protesting the legislation. The original article, which was intended as a parody of legislative attempts to circumscribe the teaching of evolution, was written by a physicist named Mark Boslough.

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