And then, about a year later, I remembered to note that in the last year I’ve read The Golden Ratio and now know that lots and lots of arbitrary ratios are within a few % of Φ. Last Year’s Point on the Subject: best when mixed with an aptly sized grain of salt.
Oh, hey. I made an iPhone application for tracking gas mileage. Point your iPhone to miles.jetless.org, create an account and start keeping track of the miles you put on your car. Email with any suggestions.
The dimensions of the iPod are 2.4”×4.1”. That’s 1:1.7083… which is within 5% accuracy to 1.618033989, the Golden Ratio.
Your daily excellent wikipediaing:
For anyone who missed it, here’s a video for how to hack a Diebold voting machine (y’know, the kind that don’t create a paper print out of voting activity) and completely overwrite all the ballots cast on it with whatever sort of voter turnout you’d like. Now that’s democracy!