-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990821b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Only a few narcissists were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Secret Military Information. Do you know what hanger number the real Alien craft parts are stored at Wright Patterson AFB ? They have been stored in building 50 & 51 up until the mid 1970's. http://caus.org/mc082199.htm @ Failed Polygraph Yields Unexpected Benefit. The recently leaked Top Secret MJ-12 UFO documents from Mr. Timothy Cooper have undergone a series of authentication tests. What do you believe? http://caus.org/pn082199.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GAS PUMPS PLUG INTO THE NET: hi-tech "gas pump of the future." Gas pumps run by BP Amoco PLC are getting wired: The firm announced that it will use a Windows-CE-based system to link pumps to the Internet. The "Millennium Dispenser," developed by Radiant Systems, uses the Windows CE operating system to access the Internet for traffic updates, weather reports and more. http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/20/gasnet.ptech.idg/index.html # LOOK, MA! NO COMPUTER! SBC Communications is about to roll out the latest gadget: a US$180 machine that does email, email, and nothing but email. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/21353.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CYBERMIND. Discussing "the philosophical and psychological implications of subjectivity in cyberspace," Cybermind is an ambitious elist, with Serious Thinkers thinking Serious Thoughts. Among the issues addressed, according to the online charter, are the emergence and/or disappearance of the body in cyberspace, phenomenology of the terminal screen, sex/gender/sexuality theory & electronic subjectivity, and (uh-oh) psychoanalysis of lurking. What's that famous quote? "Gaze too long into the abyss, and the abyss also gazes into you." Something like that. For a slightly creepy meta- freakout, send e-mail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message body of: subscribe cybermind [your name and e-mail here] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Into the Big Blue Yonder. A few years ago, IBM's vaunted Research division went through a stormy upheaval. But the labs have bounced back, and the future looks bright. (TechReview) "What's more, the rise of the Internet and the fusion of communications and computers play perfectly into decades of research raw computing power, storage, chips, displays, speech recogni- tion, 'data mining' and electronic security that few companies, if any, can match." http://www.techreview.com/articles/july99/buderi.htm @ Links: IBM Research home page: http://www.research.ibm.com/ @ IBM Research facilities worldwide: http://www.research.ibm.com/worldwide/ @ Semiconductor research: http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/serious/chip/ @ Human-computer interactions: www.research.ibm.com/topics/innovate/hci/ @ Deep-computing projects: http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/deep/scalable/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biometrics Breaks Into Prisons. Sophisticated technology allows inmates to be ID'd by scanning their irises or taking their voice prints. Corrections officials say this is more reliable than fingerprinting, but privacy advo- cates worry. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21362.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Jack Parsons & The Curious Origins of The American Space Program. Starts as a lighthearted look at JPL & the origins of the "Space program" with a little OTO & Scientology thrown in for good measure - probably inspired by the Discordian offshoot "Church of the SubGenius" - careful 'cuz it'll try to sneak some sense in under the radar while it keeps you entertained and off balanced with a "Gravity's Rainbow" meets Douglas Adams sort of sense/ nonsense stutterstep. Hard-R http://zolatimes.com/JparArt/JackParsons.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ BONDAGE AND DOMINANCE AND S&M DISCUSSIONS. Eloquent, articulate, well- versed, and an occasional sidetrack of "niggling etymological issues," the postings in this newsgroup may not excite you, but it is pretty funny when the adolescent finger-pointing gets going. I am frightened of the Capture and Chloroform threads. news:soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Black Box Crooks Finger Buyers. Scads of people who bought illegal cable descramblers on the Web may soon get unexpected - and unwanted - visits from the cops. http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21370.html # Porn Shop Raided by Mounties. Thursday, Net porn-and-casino firm Starnet was merrily planning its move onto the Nasdaq. Friday, it got nailed by Canadian cops. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21376.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ British monarchy & Jews of Amsterdam, Bank of England, CFR, RIIA. "The doctrine of British-Israelism and the Lost Ten Tribes was intended to forge a political alliance between the British monarchy and the Jews of Amsterdam, through a merger of the Arthurian Imperial tradition with Cabalistic interpretations of the Hebrew scriptures." And so on and so on, scooby-dooby-doo-doo: http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.6/bofe.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Allais effect: perturbation of motion of Foucault pendulums during a solar eclipse: http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast06aug99_1.htm Supposedly it showed up again during the eclipse on the 11th at Krems- münster Abbey near Vienna: http://www.kremsmuenster.at/ And now, something completely different: http://www.s-line.de/homepages/keppler/2frame.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # China's nuclear threat to US: http://smh.com.au/news/9908/20/pageone @ Silent Weapons, Quiet Wars: http://geocities.com/Area51/9357/silent.html # BUSH FACES NEW ROUND OF DRUG QUESTIONS - answers, "Define 'drugs'": http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/20/president.2000/bush.drug/ @ Nexus Magazine: http://www.mpx.com.au/~nexusmagazine $ Amateur Sex: http://website.lineone.net/~bluescreen/aa/welcome.htm @ ChemTrails in Olympia WA: http://www.olywa.net/angels/kaos.html @ Bitter kooks: http://www.watchingyou.com/hatemail.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The priest cradled an ornate crucifix in his left arm while he stood watching her thrashing about on the violently rocking bed, a thin stream of ectoplasm seeping from her nose, her preternaturally harsh voice spewing curses and filth in several languages into the putrid air -- and when he thought of the great sport of the next few hours, he laughed til he wept." --Harry De Puy * http://sonic.net/~ric ** ICQ# 19633976 ** FAX: 603-415-3736 ** * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * (sorry, I can't answer all email - but thanks for your feedback) * SkeptiChat/News archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm * Fringe * Science * Faith * Sex/Drugs * UFO/PSI/Y2K * Conspiracy * "Twonky Tonks to everybody, except you. 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