Every mechanical compass I've used has two points. Or none, I guess, on the spherical ones.
"Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like "Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music" and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it's interesting because it's peer to peer, completely missing the point that it's interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away."
Yes there might be two points on your compass but the "interesting" point is the one that's drawn to the magnetic pole of the planet. Cushman, you're a rhetoric astronaut.
(Now I suspect the bit about the level of discourse does apply; I was well-aware of magnetic polarity in 1st grade, and polarity itself defines there being two ends...)
Nerds, each of us. I say that affectionately but man I regret answering theorique's question.
And the pedantic-bs-to-save-some-face-of-the-day award, goes to...