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Surprisingly, "Start a kooky-looking webpage, and make a million dollars" isn't one of the options. Probably an oversight.
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"To use Maersk's calculator, you need to register with the site, download a client browser certificate and accept three server certificates from Maersk before you can access their secure site. But once you do, it's just a few short clicks before you can calculate the cost of shipping a 20â² container of "umbrellas, sun umbrellas, walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and parts thereof" (yes, that's one of the available categories, along with "bone and meal", "ores, slag and ash" and "straw, esparto, other plaiting materials and articles of straw, esparto, other plaiting materials) from Auckland to Dubai: $2451.02"
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"This 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. Of course, the traditional choice of circle constant is Ï--but, as mathematician Bob Palais notes in his delightful article "Ï Is Wrong!",1 Ï is wrong. It's time to set things right."
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Most adorable research video ever.
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Well, 2008 is off to a great start with the Skeptics' Circle. It's fast approaching the time to see if the momentum can be maintained.
I would be remiss in my duties as organizer of the Skeptics' Circle if I were to forget to remind you that it won't be long before the next Skeptics' Circle comes around the pike.