BABs Created During Fall 2006 Semester

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BABs are listed in the order in which they were created during the Fall 2006 Semester. {jump to most recent}

  1. Tyler Ty Returns to SCC [20 August 2006]
  2. The Cost of Artie Artichoke Dolls for Fall 2006 [20 August 2006]
  3. BARS:: Exit Number 49 on Loop 101 in Scottsdale, Arizona [20 August 2006]
  4. BARS:: Exit Number 36 on Loop 101 in Scottsdale, Arizona [20 August 2006]
  5. BARS:: US Highway-1 Near Woodlawn Plantation in Virginia [22 August 2006; sqrt()]
  6. Melinda Gates Resigns From the Drugstore.com Board [22 August 2006]
  7. IBM Buying Internet Security Systems, Inc. [23 August 2006]
  8. Building Heights in Tempe, Arizona [23 August 2006]
  9. POT is Plain-Old-Text [25 August 2006]
  10. New Speed Record Set for Diesel Powered Land Vehicles [25 August 2006]
  11. Pluto No Longer Considered a True Planet [25 August 2006]
  12. An Immigration Statistic [25 August 2006]
  13. One of the Fastest Supercomputers in the U.S. Gets Faster [25 August 2006]
  14. Google Says It is Not a Mutual Fund [25 August 2006]
  15. The Number One [26 August 2006]
  16. The Number Two [26 August 2006]
  17. Amazon.com Thinks AMZN Shares are Undervalued [28 August 2006]
  18. World's Oldest Person Dies at Age 116 in Ecuador [29 August 2006]
  19. BARS:: Zero Math at Rio Salado and Mill Avenue in Tempe, Arizona [29 August 2006; sqrt()]
  20. Tempe-Based Orthologic Says Chrysalin Not Good Enough [29 August 2006]
  21. Working College Students [30 August 2006]
  22. BARS:: Milepost 178 on the Beeline Highway in Arizona [31 August 2006]
  23. Valley of the Sun Commute Times Fall [31 August 2006]
  24. Cost of Education Must Include Parking Fees [01 September 2006]
  25. Math Classes for Parents [01 September 2006]
  26. BARS:: 2-6-8 Parking Sign in Studio City, California [04 September 2006]
  27. BARS:: 2-4-4-6-8 Parking Sign in Studio City, Calfornia [04 September 2006]
  28. BARS:: 6-8-10-10 Parking Sign in Studio City, California [04 September 2006]
  29. BARS:: CA Hwy-62 One Mile North of I-10 in California [05 September 2006]
  30. BARS:: State Prison and Wiley's Well Near Blythe, California [05 September 2006]
  31. Americans and the Paid-Day-Off (PDO) [05 September 2006]
  32. MySpace Helping To Reduce Music Industry Fat [05 September 2006]
  33. Intel is Reducing Its Workforce [05 September 2006]
  34. U.S. Oil Find In the Gulf of Mexico [06 September 2006]
  35. Big Numbers [06 September 2006]
  36. Miami and LA Top Cell Phone Meccas [08 September 2006]
  37. Facebook Revisits Privacy Policy [08 September 2006]
  38. More Websites Selling Movies for Downloading [08 September 2006]
  39. Yahoo! Using WWW To Stream NFL Games World-wide [08 September 2006]
  40. Supercomputers Getting More Super [08 September 2006]
  41. iParty Up $0.0001 on 8 September 2006 [08 September 2006]
  42. Space Shuttle Atlantis Begins Two Week Mission [10 September 2006]
  43. Faith the Cow is Quite a Cow [10 September 2006]
  44. Flying American Flags on 11 September 2006 in Tempe, Arizona [11 September 2006]
  45. 10 September 2001 Stock Market Comparison With 11 September 2006 [11 September 2006]
  46. Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix and Glendale to Help Build Orion Spacecraft [12 September 2006]
  47. Lucent Shareholders Okay Merger With Alcatel [12 September 2006]
  48. Mexicali Receipt From Studio City, California [12 September 2006]
  49. BARS:: Wahkeena Falls Trail Sign in Oregon [12 September 2006]
  50. BARS:: Trippet Ranch Trailhead Sign in Topanga Canyon, California [12 September 2006]
  51. Sixteen Percent Vote in Arizona's 2006 Primary Elections [13 September 2006]
  52. Digital Angel RFID Tags Must Be Working [14 September 2006]
  53. Dogster, Inc. Receives $1 Million From Angel Investors [14 September 2006]
  54. Universal Music Not a Fan of YouTube or MySpace [14 September 2006]
  55. EdTheHotdogger.com Domain Name Renewed Using Euros [15 September 2006]
  56. BARS:: Exits 174 and 173 On Eastbound US Hwy-60 in Tempe, Arizona [16 September 2006]
  57. BARS:: Off-By-60 On E. Broadway Road in Tempe, Arizona [16 September 2006]
  58. BARS:: Parking Signs Behind Old Hardware Building in Tempe, Arizona [16 September 2006]
  59. Seattle is Smartest City In the U.S. [16 September 2006]
  60. August CPI Up 0.2%, Core CPI Up 0.2% [16 September 2006]
  61. Learning Math and Use It or Lose It [16 September 2006]
  62. House of Representatives Want More Border Fencing [17 September 2006]
  63. A Million Billion Dollar Question: What is a Million Billion? [17 September 2006]
  64. Spam Email Message Requires GBP To USD Conversion [18 September 2006]
  65. Valley of the Sun Light-Rail Update [19 September 2006]
  66. Coup In Thailand Causes Thai Baht (THB) To Fall [19 September 2006]
  67. Arizona Republic Makes Nanotechnology a Front-Page News [20 September 2006]
  68. Yahoo! Stock Gets Dumped Thanks To Slowing Revenue Growth [20 September 2006]
  69. A Science Teacher Admits To Not Understanding Basic Math [20 September 2006]
  70. Federal Reserve Holds Steady On Interest Rates (2006.09.20) [20 September 2006]
  71. BARS:: Exit Number 40 on Loop 101 in Scottsdale, Arizona [21 September 2006]
  72. Joke... Army Basic Training [23 September 2006]
  73. BARS:: Fractions On Yavapai County Road 10 Near Prescott, Arizona [24 September 2006]
  74. BARS:: AZ Hwy-89 Eight Miles South of Prescott in Arizona [24 September 2006]
  75. BARS:: Off-By-One On AZ Hwy-89 Three Miles North of Yarnell, Arizona [24 September 2006]
  76. BARS:: Off-By-One On AZ Hwy-74 Two Miles East of Lake Pleasant In Arizona [24 September 2006]
  77. Forbes List of the 400 Richest Americans [24 September 2006]
  78. D.A. Davidson Promoting Financial Literacy [25 September 2006]
  79. U.S. Commerce Dept. Good At Losing Laptop Computers [25 September 2006]
  80. Figuring Out the Number of Internet Users is Tough [25 September 2006]
  81. Joke... Dead Duck [25 September 2006]
  82. Bell Labs Transmits 107 Gigabit per Second [25 September 2006]
  83. Housing Prices Drop For First Time In Eleven Years [26 September 2006]
  84. Joke... Courtroom Transcripts [27 September 2006]
  85. BARS:: AZ Hwy-87 21 Miles South of Winslow, Arizona [27 September 2006]
  86. Google Turns Eight Years Young [27 September 2006]
  87. McDonald's Raises Their Dividend To $1 Per Share [27 September 2006]
  88. New Form of BAD--Basic Arithmetic Date Equivalency (BADE) [28 September 2006]
  89. Cell Phone Spam On The Rise [29 September 2006]
  90. Cray Going To Sell Some Stock [29 September 2006]
  91. BARS:: TempeHiker Visits Phoenix and Finds 12 BARS [01 October 2006]
  92. Thanks to Mitch PU... 19 Minutes Per Mile Approximates Pi Miles Per Hour [01 October 2006]
  93. ASU To Help Build a Supercomputer at UT-Austin [01 October 2006]
  94. Amsterdam Knows About the Power of the Internet [01 October 2006]
  95. Dow (DJIA) Hits an All-Time High: 12,000 [03 October 2006]
  96. Joke... Work Rules at Foogoo Inc. [04 October 2006]
  97. Joke... Terror Alert -- Al-gebra Movement [04 October 2006]
  98. Joke... Pay Check Analysis at Foogoo Inc. [04 October 2006]
  99. Man Recites From Memory the First 100,000 Digits of Pi [04 October 2006]
  100. Baggage Handling is an Important Service For Airlines [05 October 2006]
  101. Goldwater Institute Writes About the Cost of Light-Rail [05 October 2006]
  102. BARS:: 202 Junction On Southbound Loop 101 in Chandler, Arizona [06 October 2006]
  103. Starbucks Shooting For 40,000 Stores [06 October 2006]
  104. Estimation of When the U.S. Population Hits 300,000,000 in Arizona [07 October 2006]
  105. The Mosquito -- An Electronic Teenager Repellant [07 October 2006]
  106. Joke... Some One Liners [08 October 2006]
  107. Joke... Salary Theorem [08 October 2006]
  108. BARS:: Mitchell Caverns in the Mojave Desert in California [08 October 2006]
  109. Google Acquires YouTube [09 October 2006]
  110. If Only There Were 100 People In The World (from 1999) [09 October 2006]
  111. Some Online Gaming Statistics [09 October 2006]
  112. Buying Term Papers From the Internet [09 October 2006]
  113. National Metric Week (or Base-10 Week) [11 October 2006]
  114. BARS:: Off-By-One Heading to Pierce Ferry in Arizona [11 October 2006]
  115. Mace Security Intl. Sells a Texas Car Wash [16 October 2006]
  116. 99.9 Percent Sounds Better Than 99 Percent [16 October 2006]
  117. Unmarried Households Become the Majority [16 October 2006]
  118. Google's Googleplex Going 30 Percent Solar [16 October 2006]
  119. Level 3 Communications To Acquire Broadwing Corp. [17 October 2006]
  120. BARS:: Campground at Lyman Lake State Park in Arizona [18 October 2006]
  121. Arizona Ranked the Dumbest State [18 October 2006]
  122. September CPI Down 0.5%, Core CPI Up 0.2% [18 October 2006]
  123. Jokes... Sugar Cubes, Brains, Circles and Time [18 October 2006]
  124. Proposition 202 Mucks With Arizona's Minimum Wage Act [18 October 2006]
  125. 90 Miles To Next Services [18 October 2006]
  126. City of Gooville Renews Contract With Foo Towing [19 October 2006]
  127. Google Has a Strong 2006 3rd-Quarter [19 October 2006]
  128. BARS:: I-10 West 44 Miles South of Phoenix, Arizona [21 October 2006]
  129. BARS:: No Parking Sign in Eloy, Arizona [21 October 2006]
  130. Jonathon David Farley Does HollywoodMath.com [21 October 2006]
  131. What is 10 Zillion Mega-Bytes? [22 October 2006]
  132. 21st Century Information Literacy [22 October 2006]
  133. Power (Energy) is a Sustainability Issue [22 October 2006]
  134. Bisbee Arizona is the Town of Stairs [22 October 2006]
  135. Fewer People Camping At U.S. National Parks [22 October 2006]
  136. Ford Motor Co. Has a Tough 2006 3rd-Quarter [23 October 2006]
  137. 0.80 Cents Per Pack Is Not 80 Cents Per Pack (Prop. 203) [25 October 2006]
  138. Federal Reserve Holds Steady On Interest Rates (2006.10.25) [25 October 2006]
  139. Berkshire Hathaway Class-A Shares Hit $100,000 [25 October 2006]
  140. Exxon Mobil 2006 3rd-Quarter Income Hits $10.49 Billion [26 October 2006]
  141. BARS:: Parking Signs at Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona [29 October 2006]
  142. Don't Trash Arizona Program [30 October 2006]
  143. Nobody Willing To Pay $1 Million For Hell.com [30 October 2006]
  144. Math From Danica McKellar To Bob Newhart [30 October 2006]
  145. APS Makes Money -- Was It an Oops? [30 October 2006]
  146. Generational Labor Force [31 October 2006]
  147. StemCells Inc. 2006 3rd-Quarter Financial Results [01 November 2006]
  148. Bob "Come On Down" Barker Announces Retirement [01 November 2006]
  149. Yahoo! Doing Another $3 Billion Share Buyback Plan [01 November 2006]
  150. iParty Reports On October 2006 Sales [02 November 2006]
  151. Vint Cerf On Google Working With China [03 November 2006]
  152. Yahoo! Food Recipe--Banana Corn Fritters [03 November 2006]
  153. National Sandwich Day (3 November) [03 November 2006]
  154. Unused Holiday Gift Cards [03 November 2006]
  155. Playing Investing In the Band [04 November 2006]
  156. Orthologic's Cash Burn Less Than Expected [04 November 2006]
  157. Solexa Does DNA Sequencing [04 November 2006]
  158. Music Industry is Learning About the Power of POT [04 November 2006]
  159. Novell (NOVL) At $6.66 [04 November 2006]
  160. Long Lines Expected At Arizona Voting Locations [05 November 2006]
  161. BARS:: 500 W. 1st St. at 100 S. Wilson St. in Tempe, Arizona [05 November 2006]
  162. Investors (U.S. Newspapers) Pump More Money Into Topix.net [06 November 2006]
  163. L-1 Identity Solutions Has Fewer Outstanding Shares [06 November 2006]
  164. Stolen Wedding Gowns Lead To a Bob Newhart Moment [06 November 2006]
  165. BARS:: Clearance Sign at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona [06 November 2006]
  166. The Web Exceeds 100 Million Websites [06 November 2006]
  167. Financial Details On Novell-Microsoft Partnership [08 November 2006]
  168. Average Is Not Median And Vice Versa [08 November 2006]
  169. Arizona Voters Might Have Said "No" To Prop. 107 [10 November 2006]
  170. "Yes" Vote For Prop. 203 Increases Cigarette Taxes [10 November 2006]
  171. Arizona Universities Seeking To Increase Tuition Rates [10 November 2006]
  172. Effects of Rounding Using Joanie's Mitchell vs. Hayworth Math [11 November 2006]
  173. Colleen Clark Elected to the Maricopa.edu Governing Board [11 November 2006]
  174. BARS:: Half-Mile From Sky Harbor on I-17 in Phoenix, Arizona [11 November 2006]
  175. Opsware Receives a Patent For Server Automation [13 November 2006]
  176. Solexa Merging With Illumina [13 November 2006]
  177. Gerald Ford Becomes Longest Living U.S. President [13 November 2006]
  178. One Kilogram Nanorust Equals Football Field Surface Area [13 November 2006]
  179. Vignette Announces Stock Repurchase [13 November 2006]
  180. Strange Looking Reuters Headline (40,0000?) [14 November 2006]
  181. New Roller Coaster Going In at Cedar Point [14 November 2006]
  182. 12 November 2006--Neil Young at 61 and WWW at 16 [14 November 2006]
  183. U.K.-Based Marks and Spencer Likes Using RFID [14 November 2006]
  184. Google GOOG Shares Approaching $500 Per Share [14 November 2006]
  185. US Airways Wants Delta Air Lines [15 November 2006]
  186. October CPI Down 0.5%, Core CPI Up 0.1% [16 November 2006]
  187. 49 Million Adults Cracked Over The Last Three Years [18 November 2006]
  188. Giant Logo Near Area 51 Can Be Seen From Space [18 November 2006]
  189. Milestone--Record Number Of BABs Created During Fall 2006 [18 November 2006]
  190. Noting Changes To U.S. Population Component Settings [18 November 2006]
  191. Making Math Relevant May Be Irrelevant [19 November 2006]
  192. Yahoo! Executive Says Workforce Reduction Needed [20 November 2006]
  193. Hey Crapublic -- It Depends On How You Define "Big" [20 November 2006]
  194. Bree Turns Five Squared While Dad Is Seven Squared [21 November 2006]
  195. High-School Drop Out Rates Make TV News [22 November 2006]
  196. Maricopa County 2006 Property Tax Statement [22 November 2006]
  197. DARPA Allocates $500 Million For Supercomputing [22 November 2006]
  198. New World Record--Largest Rubber Band Ball [22 November 2006]
  199. Amazon.com and Walmart.com Busy Websites [25 November 2006]
  200. Delayed Payment Is Debt [25 November 2006]
  201. Dollar Hits 19 Month Low Against The Euro [25 November 2006]
  202. China Porn Story Mentions 200,000 Yuan [26 November 2006]
  203. Over Twenty Tons Of Turkey And Ham Recalled [27 November 2006]
  204. ASU Pays Football Coach $2.85 Million To Go Away [27 November 2006]
  205. BARS:: RoadSignMath.com [RSM] Gets Tougher On Math Constants [27 November 2006]
  206. SCC Considering Solar Covered Parking [28 November 2006]
  207. Opsware and VA Software Quarterly Results [29 November 2006]
  208. CyberMonday For 2006 Sets E-Commerce Record [29 November 2006]
  209. Nicole Kidman Averages $16.5 Million Per Movie [01 December 2006]
  210. Tuitions Going Up 5% At Arizona Universities (2007-08) [02 December 2006]
  211. Using a Beer Tax To Fund Higher-Education [02 December 2006]
  212. Sydney Airport To Use RFID To Aid Baggage Handling [02 December 2006]
  213. Median Age of the Baby Boomers Hit 51 [02 December 2006]
  214. Joke... 39 and Holding [02 December 2006]
  215. BARS:: North of Loop 101 Exits 50 and 51 in Scottsdale, Arizona [03 December 2006]
  216. BARS:: E. 8th St. and S. Dorsey Ln. in Tempe, Arizona [03 December 2006]
  217. BARS:: 1st Ave. and N. 75th St. in Scottsdale, Arizona [03 December 2006]
  218. BARS:: Two Simple Signs From Downtown Scottsdale, Arizona [04 December 2006]
  219. Arizona Dept. of Public Safety Going After Tailgaters [04 December 2006]
  220. Simple Math When It Comes To Iraq [04 December 2006]
  221. Plea Deal Made With Loop 101 Driver Caught Going 147 MPH [05 December 2006]
  222. Calculator Might Be Allowed When Taking AIMS Test [05 December 2006]
  223. Oral Hygiene At The Workplace [06 December 2006]
  224. Drugstore.com Selling Lots of Marshmallow Shooters [06 December 2006]
  225. Arizona Governor Leads The Innovation America Initiative [06 December 2006]
  226. BARS:: Loop 202 Exit On Southbound Loop 101 in Tempe, Arizona [06 December 2006]
  227. Taco Bell Has a Problem With Its Green Onions [07 December 2006]
BABs::Updated During Fall 2006 Semester

The following are existing BABs that were updated during the Fall 2006 Semester.

  1. BARS:: Gila Bend On Presidents Day 2006 [created 20 February 2006; updated 22 August 2006]
  2. Minimum Wage Not Going Up Short Term [created 22 June 2006; updated 13 September 2006]
  3. BARS:: Parking Sign in Prescott, Arizona [created 28 May 2006; updated 24 September 2006]
  4. BARS:: Pi Approximation Off-By-One Near Congress, Arizona [created 28 May 2006; updated 24 September 2006]
  5. BASP:: MUSE Portfolio [created 6 january 2006; updated 18 October 2006]
  6. It Might Cost More to Drive the Ohio Turnpike [created 9 August 2006; updated 20 October 2006]
  7. Scottsdale Implements Photo Radar On Loop 101 [created 25 January 2006; updated 23 October 2006]
  8. The Hurricanes of 2006 [created 12 June 2006; updated 1 December 2006]
  9. Investment in ADSX is Also an Investment in DOC [04 October 2005; updated 2 December 2006]
RoadSignMath.com Submitted BARS
  1. BARS:: Four US Highways Signs in Memphis, Tennessee [created 30 June 2006; submitted 23 August 2006]
  2. BARS:: Nine Miles Away From Jct. 1 in Arkansas [created 03 July 2006; submitted 27 August 2006]
  3. BARS:: Pi Sign Found Eight Miles South of Hannibal, Missouri [created 01 July 2006; submitted 27 August 2006]
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Creator: Gerald D. Thurman [gdt@deru.com]
Created: 19 August 2006

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