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> On 2005-04-01, Michael L Kankiewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Yeff wrote:
> >
> >> <http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/>
> >
> > Can't get it to display. Is that the hoax?
>
> No, it's just the site is swamped and their server appears to not have a
lot of
> bandwidth. I've got cable and it took 3mins for the page to load.
> Here's an example:
>
> #7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
> The 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.
Pi are round, Cornbread are Square...
Cheers!
Hubert Liverman
Opelika, AL.
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[email protected]...> On 2005-04-01, Michael L Kankiewicz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Yeff wrote:
> >
> >> <http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/>
> >
> > Can't get it to display. Is that the hoax?
>
> No, it's just the site is swamped and their server appears to not have a
lot of
> bandwidth. I've got cable and it took 3mins for the page to load.
> Here's an example:
>
> #7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
> The 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.
Pi are round, Cornbread are Square...
Cheers!
Hubert Liverman
Opelika, AL.