mrbluze points us to an AP writeup on the upcoming
Pi Day — 3-14 (which some will observe at 1:59 pm). The article notes:
"[T]he world record [for reciting the number Pi] belongs to Chao Lu, a Chinese chemistry student, who rattled off 67,890 digits over 24 hours in 2005. It took 26 video tapes to submit to Guinness," and mentions in passing a Japanese mental health counselor who last fall recited 100,000 digits, but did not choose to submit proof to the record book.