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http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Holiday_Logo

Look at the 3rd paragraph.

Last edited by scimonster (2011-03-14 09:07:55)

Its not a world wide holiday though, I've had to go to school, hardly anyone knows about it outside America I geuss... Mainly because you have you're month before the day. Why do you do that anyway?

henley wrote:

And why don’t we dominantly use the metric system? Sometimes, America just doesn’t think.

I have no idea. It makes a whole lot more sense than our measurement system, where every conversion is different. Pretty much every part of the world recognizes the superiority of a measurement system based on multiples of 10 but us stubborn Americans. There have even been attempts to change this, to no success. 

Harakou wrote:

henley wrote:

And why don’t we dominantly use the metric system? Sometimes, America just doesn’t think.

I have no idea. It makes a whole lot more sense than our measurement system, where every conversion is different. Pretty much every part of the world recognizes the superiority of a measurement system based on multiples of 10 but us stubborn Americans. There have even been attempts to change this, to no success. 

Some of it's hard, but it's easy if you've done it your whole life. The only problem I have is I never remember how many feet make up a mile. 

muppetds wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Harakou wrote:

I have no idea. It makes a whole lot more sense than our measurement system, where every conversion is different. Pretty much every part of the world recognizes the superiority of a measurement system based on multiples of 10 but us stubborn Americans. There have even been attempts to change this, to no success. 

Some of it's hard, but it's easy if you've done it your whole life. The only problem I have is I never remember how many feet make up a mile. 

I have the same problem

Americans still measure in feet? I like feet better than meters, but with things like Dates etc. It makes sense to have days/months/years.

scimonster wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

muppetds wrote:

I have the same problem

Americans still measure in feet? I like feet better than meters, but with things like Dates etc. It makes sense to have days/months/years.

Where have you been?    Oh, the UK.    I like mm-dd-yy. 
[/offtopic discussion about American measures vs everything else.  ]

I like biggest to smallest.

Is Pi day really a public holiday for you?

ihaveamac wrote:

scimonster wrote:

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Holiday_Logo

Look at the 3rd paragraph.

Starting around Thanksgiving 2010, there haven't been any holiday logos, and the Scratch Team said that changing the logo has given them a lot of difficulty.

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i liked the logos

markyparky56 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

markyparky56 wrote:

Americans still measure in feet? I like feet better than meters, but with things like Dates etc. It makes sense to have days/months/years.

Where have you been?    Oh, the UK.    I like mm-dd-yy. 
[/offtopic discussion about American measures vs everything else.  ]

I like biggest to smallest.

Is Pi day really a public holiday for you?

I don't live in the US. Anymore. 

Paddle2See wrote:

Perhaps you should make a separate topic to discuss measurement systems 

As for the logo - I'm sorry that we have not been able to change it as often as we used to.  It's a combination of lack of resources (the website caching has really complicated the issue) and lack of submissions that adhere to the guidelines (the images must be the proper dimensions).   

Hopefully in the future we can free up some time and automate the logo update process so that we can do it more frequently.  There was an attempt to automate it a while back that had the unfortunate result of crashing the whole site for an hour.  With Scratch 2.0 rolling out this year, there are a lot of other things that need our attention that are higher on the priority list.  It is not forgotten though.

Yeah, I was going to make that other topic later.