DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers. The new feature is open to all DocStoc users and offers the ability to customize the logo, buttons, links, and color of the viewer.

Duck Duck Go – Bills itself as the most private search engine on the internet, which might be a nice thing to have bookmarked. Here’s why.

Google Reader Play – Google’s done it again. They’ve quietly rolled out yet another great feature.

K7.net – K7 provides users with a free access to voicemail and fax messages through their e-mail.

Discussion

10 Ways Google Can Defend Its Android Turf Against Apple iPhone
Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving
Programming Is the New Literacy
Tell the copyright czar how US enforcement should work: 9 days left!
Venezuela’s Chavez calls for internet controls
When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary ‘Property,’ Things Get Confusing
Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source

Entertainment

5 Browsers and the Modes of Transportation They Resemble
Chatroulette Is 89 Percent Male, 47 Percent American, And 13 Percent Perverts
Performance Comparison of Web Browsers. (Guess who looses.)
SuperPower: Visualising the internet
Top 10 Google Apps Marketplace Apps
Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Tech News

The 11th Circuit rules that once emails have been received by a third party, no Fourth Amendment protection applies to any copy. [PDF]
The FCC has announced its National Broadband Plan.
Facebook Beats Google For Web’s Most-Visited Site
Fandango Launches Barcoded Mobile Movie Tickets Concept
Google Alleges That Viacom ‘Secretly Uploaded Its Content to YouTube, Even While Publicly Complaining About Its Presence There’
Headstones can now send photos and notes right to your phone.
The internet earns a nomination for 2010 Nobel Prize
Telepathic computer can read your mind
To Battle Computer Hackers, the Pentagon Trains Its Own
uTorrent Accused of Unfairness, Banned by Trackers

Artwork

Elias’ Pi Page – Why is pi always written in the decimal number system? Read, listen to, and look at pi in the simplest of all number systems, binary.

Pi Patterns – A collection of images and illustrations created by using the digits of the mathematical constant.

Pi 3 point 1416 – A sight that explores mathematics as the language of nature. Centers around the movie Pi.

Sliding Pi – a mosaic tile in a Toronto subway station based on Pi.

Three poems by former CalTech student Eve Andersson: Beauty (Pi in several languages), Pi and Friends, Pi is Transcendental

Calculating Pi

Archimedes’ Approximation of Pi – An explanation of the Greek mathematician’s method for approximating the value of Pi.

Archimedes and the Computation of Pi – An alternate explanation of the ancient method for approximating the value of Pi used in ancient Greece.

Buffon’s Needle: An Analysis and Simulation – Buffon’s Needle is one of the oldest problems in the field of geometrical probability. It was first stated in 1777. It involves dropping a needle on a lined sheet of paper and determining the probability of the needle crossing one of the lines on the page. The remarkable result is that the probability is directly related to the value of pi.

Buffon’s Needle – A small applet that simulates the calculation of Pi using the Monte Carlo method.

Digits of Pi

Pi to One Million Digits – A page displaying the number Pi. (It takes a while to load.)

General Information

Ask Dr. Math: About Pi – A Math Forum which includes a brief history of the number.

Notes on Pi – Offers an introduction to the most famous ratio in mathematics and one of the most ancient numbers known to humanity.

Talking About Pi – History, computational methods, literature, art, and more about the magic number pi.

Wikipedia: Pi – Article about the mathematical constant, pi, including its history, appearances in formulae, trivia, and more.

Your Piece of the Pi – This site describes pi’s history, characteristics, and application. It also includes a distributed computing application for finding a large number of digits.

History of Pi

History and Philosophy of Pi – Probably no symbol of infinity in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number and Greek letter of Pi. Interesting facts and trivia about Pi.

Pi Through the Ages – A brief, but intriguing history of Pi, including a Biblical reference.

Holiday

123Greetings.com: Pi Day – Make your own Pi Day greeting cards online.

Piday.org – The official website commemorating Pi Day.

Pi Day Songs – Some songs you can sing on 3-14.

Slice of Pi, Anyone? – About Pi Day and the transcendental number, by John Shepler.

Wikipedia: Pi Day – Information about the day devoted to the number pi.

Interactive

Color Coded Pi – Play with Pi-inspired color patterns.

The Pi- Search Page – It is believed that any finite sequence of digits will eventually occur in the representation of Pi. Want to find where the first occurrance of your birth date is in the sequence of digits? (Note that this only searches the first 200 million digits so not all long sequences (11 digits or longer) will appear.)

Where is your Birthday – Here’s a search engine that finds and shows you where in Pi your birthday first occurs.

Math behind Pi

Are the Digits of Pi Really Random? – An article reports progress towards answering the question from a theoretical perspective. This article claims that applying the standard tests used to evaluate “psudo-random sequences” gives the result that Pi is a good but not great source of random digits. Looking at the first 10,000 digits, most would conclude that it really isn’t random. But then, humans are very good at seeing patterns that aren’t there.

Dr. Math Answers Questions About Pi – Addresses student questions regarding how to calculate, formulate, estimate pi.

Elias’ Pi Page – Why is pi always written in the decimal number system? Read, listen to, and look at pi in the simplest of all number systems, the binary.

How Stuff Works: Pi – This animated graphic helps to explain Pi and the different ways of calculating Pi, with some related links.

A New Approach to the Universal Constant – A text that tries to prove that pi is 3.1416 exactly.

Memorizing Pi

Baby Geniuses Reciting Hundreds of Digits – Let us celebrate this most nerdy 3.14 with a videos of preternaturally intelligent children reciting hundreds of digits of pi from memory.

Pi Memorize – A free windows application used to help memorize the number Pi to 10000 digits.

Pi Memorama – A fun little page about memorizing pi and other numbers.

How to Memorize Pi – Guidance on how to remember this diffuclt number to several decimal places.

Mnemonic Odes to Pi – A number of poems whose word lengths are the digits of pi. Lots of fun.

Notable Memorizers – World records of number of digits memorized, etc.

Merchandise

Joy of Pi – Book by David Blatner, telling the story of pi and humankind’s fascination with it, from Archimedes to the modern day Chudnovsky brothers.

Pi-Dye – Pi and Math t-shirts and gifts

Pi Poster – Buy or download a pdf of Unihedron’s snazzy Pi poster, featuring 350,390 digits of pi in lines containing 600 digits each.

Pi Shop – Provides accessories with Pi-Prints on them. Shirts, mugs and bags.

Music

Lucy Scale Developments – Pitch, Pi, and other musical paradoxes.

Pi, Pi, Mathematical Pi – Parody of the song “American Pie.”

Pi Song Lyrics – A short, original song about Pi.

The Pi Symphony – An orchestral work whose melodic content is derived from the transcendental number Pi. You can purchase a CD of the synthesized version for $15.00. An orchestral work whose melodic content is derived from the transcendental number Pi. You can purchase a CD of the synthesized version for $15.00.

Trivia

Pi Land – Quiz yourself to find out how much you really know about Pi.

Videos

David Letterman – Math savant Daniel Tammet talks with Dave about how he recited 22,514 digits of Pi on Pi Day 2004.

Maths Pi Song – A song about Pi.

Pi Day Rap – A parody of the rap theme of the of the film 8 Mile.

What is the “Pi” Song? – A brief promo for the PBS series Wired Science.

100 Useful Social Sites for Every Kind of Job Seeker – Finding a great job opening in an economy where unemployment is skyrocketing is a tough task indeed. You can help pave the way to success by using some of the great tools and forums the web offers for those on the hunt for employment.

Awesome Highlighter – This is a web-based service that lets you highlight text on any web page, then provides you with a small link to that highlighted page. Great for research and note-taking.

Bubbl.us – Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online with mind maps that can be embedded in web pages.

Flame – A really nice web-based experimental painting program from Slovak animator and designer Peter Blaskovic. It’s really useful for making desktop wallpapers.

Kodu – I realize that this is going to be old news to most people, but I discovered Kodu after reading about a guy’s efforts to teach his young daughter how to program. It’s a programming environment designed to be accessible for children that’s almost entirely a visual event based system and requires basically zero effort to learn.

Packrati – Add links you tweet to your Delicious account, automatically tagging them with the hashtags you use in your tweet.

Discussion

Sheriff near to shits a brick after discovering that emails he thought deleted were actually archived.
Why aren’t we building our own printers?

Entertainment

FlowTown has posted an infographic of How Are Companies Leveraging Social Media?
NPR explains Internet porn kingpins popularized many of the technologies you use
Number gossip lists all of the properties of any given number

Tech News

80% say ‘Net access fundamental right, split on regulation
All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement
Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right
Google maps now features bike routes.
Hard drive evolution could hit Microsoft XP users
Has Play.com revealed the Apple iPad UK price?
iPhone Addictive, Survey Reveals
Pentagon-Backed Venture Aims for ‘Google Underground’

15 Awesome Google Services You Never Knew Existed – The big G is everywhere, but it turns out that there is also a whole library of Google web applications and services stacked up behind the everyday services you may have come to take for granted.

35 Great Social Media Infographics – Panorama has rounded up a great collection of infographics that are as beautiful as they are informative.

40 Best Social Sites for Science Geeks – Great social sites for science geeks. Whether looking for an old friend, classmate, colleague, or looking to meet the new, they offer loads of help.

ComparePSD – A utility that compares two Photoshop files layer-by-layer, which can come in handy in when you’re trying to remember which of the fifty layer files on your desktop is the one that you had gotten just right before your computer crashed.

How To Read Scratched CDs or DVDs In Windows – Ever had a CD or DVD that contained critical information but you could not get to it? Don’t throw it out there might still be hope!

Setup your own Proxy Server in 5 Minutes for Free – If you don’t own a domain or server space, you can still create a personal proxy server for free and that too without requiring any technical knowledge.

Qhub – A great system that allows anyone to build a Q&A website in minutes. Simply choose a Qhub name and address to build your very own Q&A site.

Discussion

Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time
Study: Ages of social network users

Entertainment

Ditch the keyboard and mouse, go with Skinput
Gawker demonstrates Why DRM Doesn’t Work
Google, Kansas – Proof that the Google takeover of the world has begun.
Top 10 Android Apps

Tech News

Apple Tops Google and Amazon on “Most Admired Company” List
Dial4Light: Turning Street Lights On Via Mobile Phone
Apple admits using child labour
Twitter Hits 10 Billion Tweets
Ubisoft’s Uber DRM Cracked Within a Day

CodeOrgan – Type in a URL, and this service scans the words, removes all the non-musical letters, and makes “music” out of whatever is left over.

Craiglook.com – Craiglook is a mash-up of Craiglist feeds (read through Yahoo Pipes) and Google Maps. Its location radius-based search is the site’s most useful feature, and its content is always up to date with the main Craigslist directory.

FillAnyPDF – a fairly simple web app which allows you to upload a PDF file, then easily write on it wherever you want. This allows you to easily fill out any form, even if they’re not in an editable PDF form.

Gethuman.com – A directory that tells you—on a company by company basis—exactly what number to call and what buttons to press to get through to a real, human operator.

Grooveshark – Here’s a music streaming web apps that stands head and shoulder above the rest, thanks to the size of its library. Find virtually any song, play it instantly, add it to a playlist, or added to your personal library.

Home Hacks – Here’s a great site for money-saving DIY tips and projects. Don’t miss their tech section. They’ve got a lot of great tips like How To Run Windows Simultaneously on a Mac OS Home Hacks.

Musicovery – a music-finding service that’s a little different than the rest. To get music recommendations, you just specify a list of genres that you like, a timeframe, and whether you want your music calm or energetic, dark or positive.

Shape Collage – a free utility that lets you arrange a large number of photos into shapes like hearts, paws, or words with next to no effort.

Discussion

Case closed: why most of USA lacks 100Mbps ‘Net connections
Has Google become a big waste of time?
Standardize This! 10 Technology Messes That Need Fixing
US Copyright Czar wants your thoughts on how to measure and reduce infringement
Wired explains How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

Entertainment

20 Great Talks on the Future of Information
7 Operating Systems You Probably Never Heard Of
15 Crazy Ways People Make Money in Today’s Economy
Pingdom has a Massive Infographic of Google Facts and Figures
Think you’ve mastered Linux? Prove it, with Suicide Linux

Tech News

Chinese Scientists Say Losing Google Would Hurt Research — One Scientist said, ” Research without Google would be like life without electricity…”
Google Employees arrested for being Google employees
Here’s what Microsoft will reveal to police about you
Using Facebook or Twitter ‘could raise your insurance premiums

15 Internet Annoyances, and How to Fix Them – PC World explains how a few simple fixes can make surfing the web whole lot easier.

100 Niche Search Engines Every College Student Needs – While the big names like Google and Yahoo will likely always rule the search engine market, sometimes you want something a little more focused when it comes to finding what you need on the web. That’s where these niche search engines come in handy.

Aviary – One of the best image editors on the web is now available for free!

ShadyURL – Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. That way, no one will touch it!

SmartyPig – This online service bills itself as a “social banking” website. Basically, it’s a savings account that allows other people to make deposits while helping you to keep track of your savings goals. It’s not revolutionary, but it looks like a better solution to collection donations than PayPal.

Discussion

Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are
NPR asks Is The U.S. Ready For A Cyberwar?
Why Google Has Become Microsoft’s Evil Twin

Entertainment

Fast Company claims 2010 is the year of the App. Check out the infographic.
Google has unveiled a virtual glass elevator that lets you fly around the world
News Dots: The Day’s Events as a Social Network
One Button requires only the use of your mouse button, but it’s up to you to work out what it’ll do.

Tech News

Botnets are increasingly being deployed by ideological and political activist groups
Half Of Phone Break-Ups Via SMS: Survey
PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home
SETI opens up its data to ‘citizen scientists’

Bing Maps – As much as it pains me to say it, if you’re still using Google Maps, you should stop. Bing has seriously kicked Google’s ass in the maps department. Check out the latest upgrades.

How To Add Google Buzz Share Button On Your Wordpress Blog – The Share button is actually a Google Reader Button and if you have added Google Reader in your Buzz connected sites, then it will only share the item in your Google Reader + Google Buzz.

How to Do Everything in Google Buzz – Google’s new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here’s how to customize and use Buzz–or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.

Kumby.com – a site that streams hundreds of anime series online. The site features discussion forums, series information, movie reviews, games, and a chat room.

KickStarter – an excellent platform for raising funds. Post your project, expected returns, and sit back. Indispensable for fundraising campaigns.

The Material Costs of 6 Consumer Gadgets – iSuppli recently analyzed the components of several popular consumer electronics to figure out just how much each item costs to manufacture, and how much of your purchase price goes straight into their “profit” column.

obooko – a new website devoted to giving new writers the opportunity to test-the-water before committing to print. And for established authors to promote their work. The idea is that new writers self-publish and gain experience and feedback by agreeing to make their work available in digital format for free to a limited audience.

Shutup.css – a custom user stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular web sites without user intervention.

Discussion

The Problem With Google Buzz Is That It Solves Google’s Problem At Your Expense
Why Google’s fiber network experiment could be disruptive

Entertainment

D&D on the Microsoft Surface
Google Unveils Street View Snowmobile
Visualizations of the US based on Facebook connections.

Tech News

Feds push for tracking cell phones | Politics and Law
Google to offer ‘ultra high-speed’ broadband in US
Google’s Display-Ad Sales Should Top $1 Billion
Job Postings Hint at Amazon’s Plans for the Kindle – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Microsoft Declares Itself Still Innovative, Not at All Clumsy
New Russian botnet tries to kill rival
Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning

10 Alternative Uses for WordPress – WordPress is the best and most popular blogging platform around. It’s free, easy to use, endlessly customizable and supported by hundreds of excellent plugins. With WordPress setting such high standards, many people have started to question why other types of sites are so much more difficult to set up and manage.

10 Web Browsers You Probably Haven’t Heard Of – Ever heard of Stainless? It’s a browser that lets you log into one website using two different accounts in separate tabs. How about Maxthon, one of the most secure browsers out there?

100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Here’s an enormous directory of some of the nifty things Google can do to make your life easier. I was surprised at how many of these I didn’t know.

Become a Gmail Ninja – Learn tips and tricks to save time, increase your productivity, and manage your email efficiently. Start with the tips that are right for you, based on how much email you get each day.

ChatRoulette – a new website that brings you face-to-face, via webcam, with an endless stream of random strangers all over the world. Sounds like a great new way for teenage girls to accumulate web stalkers!

Hartija – CSS Print Framework – This Google Code project unites all the best CSS printing practises into one. Hartija creates a clean, clear design style ideally suited for reading after being printed off by the user.

Top 10 Tools for Finding Cool Stuff Nearby – Sometimes the most interesting stuff in an unfamiliar city is hiding in plain sight. With the right location-aware and map-friendly web tools, you can find the best cheap eats, picture-worthy sights, and much more. Start with this list of in-the-know apps.

Two Teeny Tiny Fonts – The Bee’s Knees, has an x-height of 3 pixels and was designed with favicons in mind. The second, designed by Ken Perlin, was intended to make entire pages of text fit onto iPod screen.

Discussion

Apple’s iPad Will Be the Death of the Mobile Web
Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?
Steve Jobs dubs Google’s “don’t be evil’ motto ‘bulls**t”
Why so much FAIL in the digital world?

Entertainment

77 iPad Updates That May or May Not Please the Critics
The FBI is pushing to have ISPs keep detailed records of what web sites customers have visited for up to two years.
The Five Best Public BitTorrent Trackers
Focus Magazine takes a look at the State of the Internet
Stephen Fry’s Thoughts On The iPad: All 2,180 Words Of It
Twitter haiku: a great new way to deliver bad news

Tech News

Amazon Said to Buy Touch Start-Up
Apple iPad: too cheap for Taiwan?
Firefox for Mobile Makes Its Debut
Internet uprising overturns Australian censorship law
Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything