Which way is north? Whether you're lost in the woods or you're trying to install a sundial in your yard, you're bound to want to find true north from time to time, and chances are when the time comes you won't have a compass.
posted by Bill Quackenbush @ 9:51 PM
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Staggering photograph, truly awesome. I spent quite a bit of time exploring this image, the amount of information here is incredible.
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Speaker junkies like showing off their high-end loudspeakers as much as listening to them, and chic design with form over function is certainly a factor in why Bose sells so well. But plenty of folks would rather hide their bookshelf satellites and tuck away that big subwoofer into seemingly everyday objects.
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"Now more than ever, you might want to encrypt your email to protect it from prying eyes. Not only do we have government snoops mining vast amounts of data on the net and an ever-increasing number of companies monitoring their employees' email, but phishing and other email scams increase by the day."
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...the full mosaic image is composed of about 3,000 individual frames. The data confirm that Andromeda (aka M31) houses around 1 trillion stars, compared to 4 hundred billion for the Milky Way
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Massive star supernovae have been major "dust factories" ever since the first generations of stars formed several hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to an international study published in Science Express today.
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Elvira Maria Rodriguez arrived at work at 8:30 or 9 am on March 4, 2002, expecting nothing out of the ordinary. She logged into the system, and phoned into the weekly Monday-morning conference call. ...
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