It’s about time someone did.

I’m blown away by this short film by Patrick Jean (of Paris-based One More Production).

“Pi, Greek letter (π), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi = 3.1415926535… Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th.” Read more at piday.org

Want even more pi? Check out the Pi Day Flickr group.

My original plan was to take a few weeks off from blogging in January to get a jump on some plans I had in place for the new year. I guess I lost momentum after that because as the subsequent weeks went by I had less and less motivation to get back to it. So before I drift even farther away, I thought I’d drop anchor.

I’ll be getting caught up over the next few weeks, restarting Typography Thursday, as well as launching a number of new projects and site enhancements. Please stay tuned.

Photo by me

I guess my 15 minutes starts now.

Today’s broadcast of Future Tense, an American Public Media segment airing on public radio, included my thoughts on how easy it is to use Gmail on my G1 Android phone. You can listen below.

Jon Gordon, the show’s host, sent out the call for G1 advocates on Twitter. He often uses the service for fleshing out stories and finding resources.

I had the privilege to meet Jon when he spoke at Social Media Breakfast -Minneapolis/St. Paul #5 last year. Aside from being a great reporter, I can attest to him being a heck of a nice guy as well.

Nevertheless,  I’ve always embraced strange holidays. So in the spirit of this occasion, I’ve whipped up a themed mix. Enjoy!

I can’t wait to see this! Where the Wild Things Are was one of my favorite books as a child.  Even though the off-screen production drama has long cast doubt on the movie’s fate, this freshly-premiered trailer gives me hope that my children and I will indeed be on line in October.

This is probably my favorite themed Google logo so far. They unveiled this masterpiece today in honor of Dr. Seuss‘ 105th birthday. A fitting tribute to a man whose creations resonate as strongly today as they did when they were first published decades ago.

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Dr. Seuss

If you were online over the past few days, you probably heard about Facebook’s attempt to change it’s terms of service and the ensuing uproar this caused. They have since rescinded the changes pending further review.

The sticking point seemed to be a combination of who “owns” the things users put on Facebook  and what rights of use that ownership permits. This raises some interesting larger questions about the impacts and repercussions of simply using free social networks. It also shed some light on how few people tend to read TOS in the first place.

As someone with a fairly large digital footprint, as well as a strong supporter of Creative Commons, I’m used to my stuff (photos, tweets, posts) being shared and popping up in unexpected places. In exchange for an attribution of some sort, I’m pretty comfortable “losing control” of my content in this sense.

I think this most recent controversy reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of Facebook (and the web). If you think the things you’re doing, saying, creating online are completely private then you should think again. This isn’t a bad thing, although it can be in the wrong companies’ hands. It just different from the way many of us are used to communicating. In fact, Facebook has made some impressive advances over the last year in beefing up their user-customizable privacy settings.

This all boils down to that fact that we just need to be smarter about the things we put online.

How do you feel about this? Which side of the Facebook Wall are you on? Do you share smartly?