even worse, what I don't get is how come make a celebration of something such abstract and universal as pi on a 3 -1 =2 months 14 days from a date (new year's day) that as nothing abstract nor universal... I'm sure any other civilization that looks at new year's day just as another day to find the choice of the pi day rather frivolously occidental...

What is scary is that this piece of science without the hype would have stayed unknown to /. behind the paywall, and it would still be the same piece of science (without the GPS thingy).