Nukes and Pi

You may remember this crazy Japanese guy I talked about back in October who set a record by reciting pie to 100 000 digits. The Japan Times recently ran a feature on him and his life. He's a pretty fascinating guy, mathematically and metaphysically.

Also, the 6-Party talks are set to resume this morning, albeit in a rather underwhelming way. Though the meeting looks good in theory, it doesn't sound like anybody is really expecting it to, how do you say, amount to anything.

"I anticipate it won't be easy to seek substantive measures to resolve the situation partly because the talks will be exploratory in nature," Chun [the South Korean delegate]told reporters after meeting the other envoys except for the North Koreans. (Reuters)