Hold the Book in Your Hand

DaVinci and friends

It's close to impossible to be able to physically handle a classic text by Mozart, Jane Austin or others.

There is a way to get pretty close. Look at:
Turning the Page



This was brought to my attention by
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Rewrite the Bill of Rights

A wiki for the people

Try it out. Experiment. Funny-looking wig not required!

Which is the best version?

The Second Amendment

1. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
   
   
2. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms within militias coordinated by the States, shall not be infringed.

It is increasingly difficult for the average person today to participate in shaping the public agenda. Most policy initiatives are drafted in back-rooms with a few individuals providing all of the input; the public is rarely involved in this process; outreach to others is not a standard practice.
Along with these imposing barriers to entry, television, radio and print meda are largely accessible in only one direction, with little interactivity or opportunity for everyday citizens to contribute ideas.
In contrast, more perfect offers an open public forum where everyone is a potential contributor and participants create their own content. By focusing on the written word instead of the 20-second sound bite and enabling anyone to contribute to the public discourse, more perfect offers a unique opportunity to re-invigorate the marketplace of ideas originally envisioned by our founding fathers.

• Rewrite the Constitution of the United States
  
• Edit the Bill of Rights
  
• Tweak the Washington State Constitution
  
• Help define the Priorities of Government for Washington
  
• Revise Washington State Party Platforms: Dem/Rep

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Combine Pharmacokinetics and Bowling

Shape the Zeitgeist

I like to jump head first into subjects that I have no understanding of at all.
Here's a site that meets the criteria. A site that discusses the book:

"Agronomic Representation of Muddles in Linguistic Theory"
by Peter Cannings

The august journal Speculative Grammarian has a long, rich, and varied history, weaving an intricate and subtle tapestry from disparate strands of linguistics, philology, history, politics, science, technology, botany, pharmacokinetics, computer science, the mathematics of humor, basket weaving, archery, glass blowing, roller coaster design, and bowling, among numerous other, less obvious fields.

SpecGram, as it is known to devotees and sworn enemies alike, has for centuries sought to bring together the greatest yet least understood minds of the time, embedding itself firmly in the cultural and psychological matrix of the global society while simultaneously illuminating, reflecting, and shaping the universal Zeitgeist.

The Speculative Grammarian





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More PI, Please

Pick a piece

Is your Social Security number just part of Pi? How about your phone number?

In 1996, Arthur Bebak of Netsurfer Digest jokingly suggested the idea. I put the site online, linked from the now-defunct Useless Web Pages Pages. The original suggestion was to find your birthday in Pi, but things got out of hand. The original pi searcher featured 1.25 million digits. It was upgraded in 1998 to 50 million, in 2001 to 100 million, and in 2005, to 200 million digits to keep up with the times. The Pi Searcher has proven both exceptionally useless (see the comments) and occasionally useful to math & early science classes.

The Pi Searcher lets you search for any string of digits (up to 120 of them) in the first 200 million digits of Pi. You can also show any substring of Pi

Today's date:

The string 09062010 occurs at position 100,612,215 counting from the first digit after the decimal point.

The string and surrounding digits:

69799506351530413700 09062010 38508990326697425579

Dave Anderson at:
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