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a list of recent useful things

profound thought of the day: "it is hard to be sentimental on the 101 (N)"

TIPS tutorial from the Fed

Ethan @ Starts With a Bang - new scibling, cosmology oriented astroblog

Celestia @ shatters.net - free 3-D space visualization tool

one of these days I'll have to play and compare it with

Partiview - from Hayden/NCSA - which has served me well in the past

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