The Tau Manifesto is dedicated to one of the most important numbers in mathematics, perhaps the most important: the circle constant relating the circumference of a circle to its linear dimension. For millennia, the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes, and the circle constant captures the geometry of the circle in a single number.
Personally, I like gnome3. Knocking it seemed/seems to be the in thing to do, but I got used to it quickly, and actually have had fewer problems with it than I did with gnome2.
Perhaps my favorite thing now that I've gotten used to it is how easy it is to launch an application. I don't create "shortcuts", or need to bother remembering which category or sub menu a programs launcher is, just press the meta key and start typing the name of the program I'd like to run. Sure I could have set that up in gnome2 if I wanted to, but in gnome three that's just the default... and it works just as well with to open a document I was working in.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission