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August 13, 2006

“We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the k

The open-source core of Apple's Safari browser, WebKit, now fully supports CSS-level rounded-corners and has sped JavaScript up 30%.

How-To: make your own random number generator out of a smoke detector and a web-cam. The camera visualizes the alpha radiation from the radioactive Americium core of the smoke detector. via

Fundie math: via

please explain 1 kings 7.23 and how a circle can have a circumference of 30 of a unit and a radiius of 10 of a unit and i will become a christian

23 And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
Source(s):
1 Kings 7:23 (New King James Version)
Very easy. You are talking about the value of Pi.
That is actually 3 not 3.14.......
The digits after the decimal forms a geometric series and
it will converge to the value zero. So, 3.14.....=3.00=3.
Nobody still calculated the precise value of Pi. In future
they will and apply advenced Mathematics to prove the value of Pi=3.

Here's a handy high-rez Hubble gallery of pretty space photos. All the famous Hubble photos, linked in 1080p, collected on one page...gotta download all of these when I have the time. via

Posted by Jon Rubin at August 13, 2006 11:38 PM

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