Afternoon Links of Awesomeness: March 14, 2012

Today is Pi Day -- March 14! Celebrate by learning a little more about one of the most irrational numbers around. [Pi Day]

Oh the many things you wouldn’t be able to do if your arms were as tiny the arms of a T-Rex (like writing out the first 100 digits of pi). [T Rex Trying]

Darth Vader’s open letter to the public on why he’s leaving the Empire. “The Empire today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about remote strangulation. It just doesn’t feel right to me anymore.” [The Daily Mash]

Yesterday Andrew Bird visited the Colbert Report where he played two songs from his newest album Break it Yourself. The two talk about renaissance fairs, biology, and a “friend of Stephen’s” who suffered a traumatic experience while listening to Bird’s music. [Colbert Nation]