I'm not sure what time zones could move closer to solar noon on DST, I thought the eastern edge of the time zones is usually closest to solar noon. For example, in western Ohio we're on the western edge of EST, and our solar noon doesn't come until about 12:50 on normal time. Hell, in the summer we don't hit solar noon until around 2 in the afternoon, it's almost arbitrary. That's my only argument against DST, it just makes the clock time so far off "natural" solar time. Noon should be noon.

Well hell, I just wasted a good half-hour (re)reading a few of those posts, thanks for the link.

Quick shout out for 355/113, the closest rational number to pi with a denominator less than 30,000. (Or something like that. Anyway, it's ridiculously close.)

Those were the days. I'm guessing it was a Martin Gardner Recreational Mathematics article as well.

Euler was the boss, and pretty much invented and standardized the way we write algebra symbols. As Dr. Julius Sumner Miller used to say, he is deserving of your further study!

Also, 3.14 is so undeserving to connect with pi, it might as well just be three. What is still amazing is 355/113, the most accurate fraction for pi with a denominator less than 10,000 or so. (I could be off a little, look it up.)

Hey, I tried my best and paid $35 for Netscape gold 3.01. Still have my T-shirt.

Another vote for seamonkey here as well! I love how the post above was modded as 'troll' for suggesting seamonkey. I only use FF for the webdev tools.

I have mod points, and it's just not worth the trouble to move all these worthless 0's down to -1's. Can't you all please just not bother to type such crap?

Anon, you have put that very well, though harshly. When I first heard someone say "giff format," I knew right away what they meant, and that they were simply saying it wrong.

I'm late to this discussion, has the correct of pronunciation of GIF been agreed on yet? The soft g is clearly correct. I will never use the hard 'g' version, and, never use either version as a verb. That's just dumb.

Pardon my pedantry, but the curve made by a hanging powerline is a catenary, which is a beautiful curve and worthy of its own study!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caternary
Otherwise I agree with your comments in this thread completely.

I wouldn't bet money on the native software advantage always being significant. Just compare what a browser tab can load and run now with five years ago, or say 15 years ago over dialup.

I'm too lazy to look up a reference, but the american summer school break has nothing to do with working in the fields; it was created more by the common practice of fleeing the summer heat in the east coast cities.

I just keep using seamonkey, so am basically still using netscape 3.05 or so. I actually bought it, still have the t-shirt.

Nope, whether you enjoy the night or whatever, our species is simply not nocturnal. That's simply a matter of choice. No one is a "morning person" or a "night person," we're all genetically conditioned to sleep at night and move around during the day. That said, I also love the wee hours of the morning, but get up well before sunrise because early morning is the greatest, too. Then I eat a huge meal around noon and sleep for a few hours, because I'm a carnivore by default.