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Hexnet.org is a hexagonal community dedicated to the advancement of hexagons and hexagonal consciousness. Here you will find what I can only assume must be one of the world's most comprehensive collections of resources related to hexagons, hexagonal symmetries, and all other manner of six-sided and six-related concerns.

Hexnet.org spam update

Posted by hexnet on 2011.0808.2017

After several days of field trials, we at HEXNET.ORG are prepared to declare our recent SPAM CRISIS officially resolved. We have deployed a robust set of procedures and methods that are now effectively trapping all spam, without producing false negatives. We have, therefore, reinstated anonymous commenting.

HEXNET.ORG continues to look forward to the day when it becomes legal to hunt spammers for sport.

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Site update: Robot invasion

Posted by hexnet on 2011.0722.0714

We at HEXNET.ORG have been experiencing a rash of weird, bot-like comments on various and sundry posts over the past several days. We're not sure what caused this evil to be unleashed on us, but it's possible Hexagonbot is at least partly responsible, as it seems to have attracted a lot of bot attention on Twitter. Anyway, our previously airtight CAPTCHA has failed us, so until we resolve this, anonymous comments will be moderated. We hope to return to normal as soon as possible, but we simply do not have time to deal with this crap at present. MOAR »

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Our new hexagonal robot overlords

Posted by hexnet on 2011.0703.1353
@Hexagonbot

HexagonbotGood news everyone.

After literally hours of research and development at our new GLOBAL HEXAGONAL HEADQUARTERS in Worcester, Massachusetts, Hexnet.org is pleased to announce the release of the world's first fully-automated hexagonal awareness retweeting service: Hexagonbot v.1.0.

Hexagonbot is a companion service to our Hexagonal Awareness Project reblog on Tumblr, and is part of a broader effort by the global hexagonal community to bring hexagonal services to a variety of blogging and social media platforms.

Hexagonbot implements a proprietary algorithm through which it downloads a feed of hexagon-related tweets, and then retweets them. It's a very sophisticated process. Hexagonbot is not currently programmed to interact with other Twitter users in any way, though we anticipate this functionality may be added to future iterations of the platform.

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Hexagonal Update, Spring Eleventy-Seven

Posted by hexnet on 2011.0531.2031

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen." – Page/Plant

CURD

Well, it's totally the end of May, and it has come to our attention that we haven't actually written a full-on blog post here in like four months, nor have we frontpaged anything since January's Dozenal Pi Day announcement. In retrospect we probably should've frontpaged the actual Dozenal Pi Day post (even though it was brief and relatively content-free), to at least bookend that whole process, but at the time it didn't really seem that important.

At any rate, the top post on our front page for most of the year has been an announcement for an event that happened months ago. This, at the very least, makes the site look lame and unmaintained, and it's a situation we feel needs to be remedied. To that end, we have several MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS to make: MOAR »

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Dozenal Pi Day 11B7

Posted by reverendgraham on 2011.0127.1343

"Ten is doubtless a convenient number of fingers to have, though men have gotten along with less and a few people have been born with more. But as the purely arbitrary unit which determines the form of our numbers, it was a miserable choice." – F. Emerson Andrews

"Do not disturb my circles." – Archimedes

It's that time of year again—time to start thinking about DOZENAL PI DAY.

Overview

Dozenal Pi Day Regardless of its radical prejudices, Pi Day has become, in recent years, an annual cultural event of some magnitude, and the occasion for a certain nominal enthusiasm about "math" that people seem to find meaningful. At the very least, it seems to remind us of our own cleverness, which is something I have nothing against in principle.

Yet I am more convinced than ever that, unless we remain firmly mindful of what separates the arbitrary and symbolic in mathematics from the truly meaningful, Pi Day will ultimately remain a rather vacuous and misguided holiday. Thus, I once again propose the observation of DOZENAL PI DAY on 18; March (decimal 20th), to raise awareness of the superior dozenal radix, while also bringing attention to the underlying meaninglessness of our present decimal notation. MOAR »

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Thoughts on the hexagonal zodiac

Posted by hexblog on 2011.0114.1211
Hexagonal structure of the zodiac

I feel something must be said about this astrological "sign shift" business that has set the 'tubes abuzz in recent days. There being twelve astrological signs ("Ophiuchus" notwithstanding) arranged around a central point, the issue is clearly one of both dozenal and hexagonal import. Despite the fact that I'm not all that into astrology (though I've learned enough over the years to inform my general fluency in Western occult symbolism), I feel the hexagonal principles at stake must be defended.

First of all, this is of course old news. I don't really understand why it keeps popping up in the media every few years, but this is simply the latest incarnation of a story that we've all been well aware of since classical antiquity, and that certainly should not come as news to anyone, anywhere. "Ophiuchus" has always been there, the twelve signs have never been symmetrically arranged in exact 30-degree sections, axial precession has always been going on, we always knew about it, nobody has ever cared, and nobody cares now. MOAR »

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