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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 35
Sign: Aries

City: AUSTIN
State: Texas
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/30/2006

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Monday, April 03, 2006 

Category: News and Politics
Enjoy The Daily Texan (UT's student newspaper) coverage of the Underpants of Science Museum: today's issue has the well-written article "Pranksters' undie display short-lived" as well as our impassioned 'Firing Line' letter, "UT's panties twisted".  (Nice headline on the last one BTW).
Saturday, April 01, 2006 
Enjoy these photos from underpants wearers Library Dave and Susan Brown.  Thanks!

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Friday, March 31, 2006 
Writes another friend: "I am [someone who can make this happen]. You may wish to remain anonymous, but if you would like to discuss a future installation in [a prime nearby location] that would be out of UTPD's reach, please contact me." The Museum shall rise again!
Friday, March 31, 2006 
Writes a friend: "Apparently campus security got a complaint, and took yon artwork done c. 8.30 am this morning. The underpants of science are no more. Everyone who came through earlier seemed to enjoy, however. In the CYA department, the campus security/safety officer people asked the administrative people on the fifth floor if they had interest in pressing charges, which they did not. The question occurs of course: who complained? ... You might say that someone got their panties in a twist."
Friday, March 31, 2006 

The Museum is up.  Big thanks to Agents Penguin and Habanero, who provided crucial art&crafts skill at just the right time. Everything got installed except the biography plaques, which may appear at some later point.  We got the introductory plaques up right as the first staff began to arrive, so we don't have any photos yet, although we took some video during installation.  Hopefully we can come back later and snag some photos -- they'll be posted as soon as possible for the enjoyment of out-of-town visitors.

Here's the list of Famous Underpants in Science and Math:

Descartes      Various Graphs on Cartesian Coordinate Underpants
Moebius        One-Sided whitey tighties (half-twist in the leghole)
Klein          Klein Bottle Long Undies (reconnects thru crotch)
Grace Hopper   Computer Bugs are devouring her undies
Alan Turing    Whitey Tighties form a Turing Machine r/w head
Ada Lovelace Lacey
Curie Beta-ray proof (tinfoil with Radiation warnings)
Schrodinger Schroedinger box: Boxers? Briefs? A superposition of both!
Oppenheimer A fission event erupts from the back
Townes Multiple Burnt Holes from stray laser impacts
Bloch A literal Band Gap
Einstein Big Balls
Top Quark Team A box of 600 undies, enough for the whole collaboration.
EPR Paradox Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen's Entangled Undies
Feynman None, Baby!
Weinberg Apparently our own Steven Weinberg rocks the Thong
Cornell Penguin Boxers, as befits the Low-Temperature pioneer

These few, unfortunately, did not go up:

Wu             Parity-reversed (bra on bottom, panties on top)
Rosie Franklin Were stolen by Watson
Farnsworth     Cartoon Boxers, filled with Good News
Wheeler        Boxers being sucked into a black hole
Newton         Apple undies
Avogadro       Very small undies
Roentgen       X-Ray undies
Any other good ones we forgot?  Let us know in the comments.