Word: disks
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...purveyors of this serpentine plot, the cast of Pirates really does have something to sing about. Particularly good are Zeidenberg, who has a voice which sounds like something off a compact disk, and the darkly cherubic David Schrag as the Pirate King...
Fifth Gift Idea: Disk Drive Cleaners...
Another nifty stocking stuffer is a disk drive cleaner ($5-$15), a handy little device to keep someone's disk drive reading loud and clear. Basically, a special disk is inserted into the disk drive, and it uses its non-abrasive cleaner to clean the read-write head...
Sixth Gift Idea: Disk Storage Boxes...
...close together, and the fireworks begin. The monumental gravity of the neutron star raises such high tides on its companion that gases are torn wholesale from the white dwarf's surface and pulled into orbit around the neutron star, forming a so-called accretion disk. Some of that material continuously spirals down to smash into the surface of the neutron star -- at a rate of a trillion tons a second -- striking so violently that it literally explodes. Says Co-Discoverer William Priedhorsky of Los Alamos National Laboratory: "A neutron star can convert about 10% of the mass that falls...