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# Woman kills eclipse baby. BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) A Romanian woman killed
a baby born during the Aug. 11 eclipse, fearing ancient superstitions that
the child would grow up cursed. The 31-year-old woman from a remote hamlet
admitted throwing the infant down an outdoor toilet shortly after giving
birth in her home. Neighbors in the northern Romanian village of Strahotin
said the woman was "fearful of rumors that monsters are born during the
eclipse." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560792157-e7d
: Were you born during an eclipse? Are you monstrous, cursed, special, gold-
plated, magickal, alien, supernatural? Should you have been killed? Why not?
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# Tonga may get jump on millennium. TAVEUNI, Fiji (AP) The small Polynesian
kingdom of Tonga hopes to do one better than neighboring island rivals for
millennium business by adopting daylight saving time. They need the money.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560795352-926
: Do you want to be the first human to see the New Millennium? How much cash
will you spend to achieve that goal? Do the voices in your head insist? Hmm?
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# Satellite navigation tool in trouble. (AP) - For those who rely on the
high-tech Global Positioning System to find their way around, this weekend
has plenty of potential drama. The satellite-based navigation devices in
use all over the world could malfunction when the system resets its clocks
- see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560788144-84a
# Don't rely on GPS. (BBC) Sailors and pilots are being urged to check their
satellite navigation equipment this weekend for a millennium-style glitch.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_426000/426081.stm
: Are you almost as tired of GPS rollover stories as you are of eclipse and
millennium stories? Have you replaced your GPS gear? Do you still use LORAN?
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# How to Give a Cat a Colonic: Another HOAX. A new virus hoax warns users
about an email message with the subject: "HOW TO GIVE A CAT A COLONIC,
DO NOT OPEN IT!!!!!!!!" This warning is a hoax; do not to distribute it
to others. http://www.trend.com/vinfo/hoaxes/cat_colonic.htm
: Would you execute a file describing feline enemas? Have you ever given a
cat an enema? Would/did you write any cat enema viruses? Do ETs help you?
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# Catholic bishop on trial in Rwanda. KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - A Roman Catholic
bishop in Rwanda went on trial on charges of failing to offer sanctuary to
victims of the 1994 genocide. Augustin Misago, bishop of the diocese of
Gigonkoro in southwestern Rwanda, is the highest-ranking Rwandan cleric to
face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560793507-1e1
: Does your belief subsystem promote/condone/accept genocide, crimes against
humanity, crimes against anyone? Do you promote cultural genocide? Where??
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# Deathtrap cities keep growing. (BBC) As more people flock to cities,
the impact of disasters inevitably worsens. Stink of civilization:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_426000/426035.stm
@ Links: The Worldwatch Institute: http://www.worldwatch.org/
@ UN Centre for Human Settlements: http://www.unhabitat.org/
@ Natural Disaster Reduction: http://www.idndr.org/
: What's your favorite urban deathtrap? How're ya gonna keep'em down on the
farm, after they've seen Recife? Do urban sinks result from genocidal plots?
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# Museum celebrates computers. SAN DIEGO (AP) From vacuum tubes & paper tape
to Atari Pong and Apple IIs, the Computer Museum of America slithers down
technology lane. The collection of more than 200 pieces spans a century of
computing from a 1900 circular slide rule that looks like a pocket watch,
to an IBM 360 mainframe computer from the 1960s that's about the size of
three gym lockers. The nonprofit museum's newest addition is a 22-year-old
MITS Altair 8800b, donated by a patent lawyer who won a contest for having
the oldest personal computer still in use. He was too cheap to upgrade til
now: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560786364-0ac
# And: Computer museum at a glance, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560783034-48e
: Shouldn't ancient Napier's Bones & logarithms be on display here too? D'ya
know that these were developed to calculate when Armageddon would occur? Do
you use computational devices to prognosticate The End? Got an answer yet?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Freemasons: satanism, abuse: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/masons
@ Bush's Cocaine Problem: http://www.drcnet.org/wol/104.html#editorial
# Guam Court Upholds Freedom of Religion for Rastafarian:
http://www.drcnet.org/wol/104.html#makhana
@ National TechnoGeek Day: http://www.techiesday.org
@ The Rhythmicon: http://www.city-net.com/~moko/rhome.html
@ HACK A WIN2000 SERVER - IF YOU CAN: http://windows2000test.com
@ ACTION ATLAS: CORAL REEFS: http://www.motherjones.com/coral_reef/
@ Leap Of Faith: www.zetatalk.com/transfor/t25.htm
@ Never Sleep 'til Dawn! http://pages.hotbot.com/advice/wpmay/
@ Interested in joining in some UFO adventures in the Pacific Northwest
in Sept? http://members.wbs.net/homepages/r/a/h/rahseed.html
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"Suck hot lead, Yankee Schweine!" bellowed Sister Regina as she flung aside
the front of her habit to reveal a somewhat antiquated but still quite
deadly Schmeisser automatic, and the very last things Bobrowski and the
Sarge saw - with an almost preternatural clarity - were the twin black SS
lightning bolts on the satiny white skin of her left inner thigh, just above
the top of her spiked-heel boots; and Sarge mouthed the words, "I guess
Rocco was right after all," but he gagged on the warm salty blood rushing
like a geyser up his throat, and only a low gurgling hiss emerged from his
mouth before his newly perforated back slapped the rain-slicked flagstones
of the little piazza, even as the colossal silver intergalactic cruiser, its
inboard running lights flickering hypnotically, settled to an eerily silent
landing behind the bombed-out rectory. --Karl M. Petruso
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