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From Eve Andersson's Pi land, we have these histograms of the frequency of (base 10) digits.

The first 100 digits of pi:

0	8
1	8
2	12
3	12
4	10
5	8
6	9
7	8
8	12
9	13

Things even out pretty nicely by about 1 million digits:

0	99959
1	99757
2	100026
3	100230
4	100230
5	100359
6	99548
7	99800
8	99985
9	100106

The digits are just white noise, there might be an interesting pattern now and then, but that is to be expected statistically. Besides, these are base 10 digits, which are an arbitrary representation based on the fact that we have two hands with five fingers apiece…

I could share some more interesting facts and formulae, but printing the greek character pi on a blog is, as they say, a pain in the butt. And I am not in the mood for that tonight.

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Today's chart rates four ex-girlfriends against criteria from an article at everything2.com:

Just like how women can be treated badly, men can also be treated badly. And for some reason, men are socially engineered to take more crap from the woman. Here are some of the things women who treat men badly do:

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This chart represents the most popular automotive colors for North America in 2004.

That is one fine-looking chart!

but which one is the new black?

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What better way to reflect upon the year than with marginally meaningful statistics?

The following table represents the frequency of tags in all 2006 articles on CatSynth.com (except for this one). Tags are either those funny words at the bottom of every post or the category names that follow the dateline at the top of every post.

With 285 distinct tags during 2006, it is rather difficult to show them all in the graph above. However, most are only used once. As can be seen in the following pie chart (hey, who doesn't love a good pie chart?), the top 15 tags account for almost 50%:

Here are the top 33 tags for 2006:

cats			85synthesizers		54news			34music			33luna			26weekend cat blogging	20worthless kitty		17kitty			17art			17wcb			14new orleans		9photography		9experimental		8electronic music	8lebanon			7modernism		7osw			6emulator x		6stats			6kitties			6e-mu			5beirut			5fun with stats		5podcast 		5jazz			4computer music		4analog			4improvisation		4open sound world	4funk			4sculpture		4mathematics		4resonance		4

Happy New Year!

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From John Battelle's Searchblog, we have some self-described “fun stats for the holiday:”

If you were expecting something more directly apropos of the holiday season, consider a few of these gems courtesy of New American Dream:

* A typical middle income family earning around $45,000 a year saw its debt burden grow by 33.1% between 2001 and 2004, even after adjusting for inflation.

* Recent statistics show that in November of 2003 54% of consumers were still paying off credit card debt left over from the previous holiday season.

* The amount of household garbage in the United States generally increases by 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, from 4 million tons to 5 million tons.

* 50 million Christmas trees are purchased in the U.S. Of those, 30-plus million get carted to the landfill every year.

* The National Mental Health Association cites the financial stresses of the holiday season as one cause of the ?holiday blues? which, for many, transforms the holidays into a time of anxiety and depression.

So folks, lay off the credit card debt for a bit, and spend some more time with your family and friends, both furry and not so furry.

Maybe give a little something to your local animal shelter, too. You can find shelters and other organizations near you on Petfinder.

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Happy 300 million!

1. China 1,313,000,000
2. India 1,112,000,000
3. United States 300,000,000
4. Indonesia 222,000,000
5. Brazil 184,000,000
6. Pakistan 163,000,000
7. Nigeria 159,000,000
8. Russia 143,000,000
9. Bangladesh 136,000,000
10. Japan 128,000,000

(From the Population Resource Center)

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Top ten “nations” by number of internet users

1. European Union: 230,097,055
2. United States: 203,824,428
3. China: 111,000,000
4. Japan: 86,300,000
5. India: 50,600,000
6. Korea, South: 33,900,000
7. Brazil: 25,900,000
8. Russia: 23,700,000
9. Canada: 20,900,000
10. Indonesia 18,000,000

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From Daniel Faigin's amazing California Highways website:

1. US 101. 807 miles
2. I-5. 796 miles
3. CA 1. 656 miles
4. US 395. 557 miles
5. CA 99. 415 miles
6. CA 299. 307 miles
7. CA 65. 305 miles
8. CA 49. 295 miles
9. I-15. 294 miles
10. CA 33. 290 miles

Here are the ten highest-rated posts based on 90 ratings as of this morning:

the inaugural post (5.00).
moring walk and sea lion (4.33).
In memoriam, Ruth Schonthal (1924-2006), composer and teacher (4.33).
DSI Evolver legal again in Kansas public schools (4.00).
getting ready for tomorrow's performance, part 1 (4.00).
Cat Welfare Society of Israel (4.00).
fun with Emulator X and filter response (3.83).
Luna and table in black and white (3.50).
Green Kitties (3.29).
shades of luna (3.17).

No one has left any comments, so I'm not entirely sure how to interpret any of this. But I'm pretty sure this post will get a very low rating…