it is actually a fundamental idea of the jewish faith. i had a roommate that punched a whole in his bedroom wall after watching it.....
How DARE you not recognize the great day that is 3.14 !!! Blowing out his brains was the best part. From what?
Europeans do such a great job with sensible addresses. Put the country first because that's what the postman needs to see first, and put the house number last because he only needs to know that at the end of the route when he's on foot going door to door. But then they blow it with dates. 2007.03.14 is the logical way to record a date. Like any other number, you should put the high-order digits first. You can sort dates in that format as one data element, without having to break them up into three. It's the same logic as putting the country name first. It doesn't much matter what day you're talking about if I have to wait until the end of the sentence to discover that we're not talking about the same year. If someone asks you, "When's your birthday," suppose you say, "The nineteenth..." They immediately start thinking, oh golly whiz I have less than a week to put together a surprise party for my new friend. They mutter some excuse and run out the door to make reservations and invite all your other pals, and they're so preoccupied that they don't even hear you say, "... of February," which gives them a whole year to plan. You can say "The Fourth Of July" (in America) because that phrase has been enshrined. It's Independence Day, one of our national holidays, and we rarely refer to it as "Independence Day." But it's just plain silly to say "The Fourteenth of March."
lol, after that video GeoffP posted, it linked me to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjuf1ikxXwA&NR man, and you guys think pi is a fucked up thing to celebrate. edit: upskirt at 6:28 into the video edit#2: holy shit 6:28=2*pi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
