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# Think The Internet Stinks? Try This! SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) If you think
the Internet is in your face already, you haven't smelled anything yet.
Smell-o-video: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-internet
# Rudy vs The Elephant Dung: stock characters hurl abuse and feign
hurt, secretly gleeful at the publicity. A well-staged scandal:
http://nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991010mag-art-politics.html
: Is your nose more offended by the Internet, politics, your cow orkers, me?
Do alien implants cushion you from the worst scents? Do Reptilioids stink??
# COSMIC ANGST. The discovery of more solar systems in the universe just
increases the likelihood that space is filled with assholes, morons
and goons: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm
: How many jerks can the universe abide? All of'em? Are deities jerks too?
Is jerk-hood a survival characteristic? Did we evolve to be jerks? Why not?
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# Paul Kurtz has been in foxholes under fire and he's still a happy
atheist. This apostle of godless morality is now leading a revolution
on campus: http://www.linguafranca.com/9910/faith.html
# What's striking about today's intellectuals, says Wendy Kaminer, is their
utter failure to criticize, much less satirize, America's romance with God:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/277/living/An_avowed_agnostic_divines_the_
perils_of_piety+.shtml
: Are you romantically involved with one or more deities? Do intellectuals
mock you? Dare they? Do you mock them? Are you revolutionary? Are they? How?
# Despite liberal orthodoxy, Harvard still harbors a flinty right wing:
contentious, mordant, and politically incorrect on a cosmic scale.
The swine! http://www.harvard-magazine.com/so99/conserv.ssi
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# Improving the human race with genetics is a sensitive subject in
Germany. Just raise the topic and you may hear shouts of "Fascist!"
http://www.philosophynews.com/news/19991001_habermas_vs_sloterdijk.htm
# Four Sisters Up For Adoption On Internet. LONDON (Reuters) Authorities in
Britain are using a photograph on the Internet to offer four young sisters
for adoption in a desperate attempt to bring them together under one roof.
Bring on the clones: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-adoption
# If Mozart piped into mother's womb causes baby to kick, what's the kid
trying to say? Maybe, Turn off that racket! Let's have some quiet here!
www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/280/metro/Discordant_note_little_heardP.shtml
: Have you improved anyone lately? Did you use genetic modification, social
engineering, personal manipulation, prenatal music, drugs, sex, surgery? Eh?
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# Brain wave: Suppose all that was thought to happen in your left lobe
took place in your right instead? Would it make any difference? Would
anyone notice? How? http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n19/fodo2119.htm
# Since the chance of an election being decided by a single vote is almost
nil, why should any citizen bother to vote? Ask a rational choice theorist
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/current/coverstory102599.html
: Is rationality overrated? Are your lobes scrambled? Do ET implants help?
Do'ya make a difference? Do differences make you? Do you control the future?
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# Message from a Mouse. The very notion of a gene "for" something as complex
as "intelligence" lapses into absurdity. A Gene for Intelligence? Pshaw!!
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,30590,00.html
# RACING TO MAP OUR DNA:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17688,00.html
# WHO OWNS OUR GENES?
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,17682,00.html
: Are y'r genes smart? Do you own them? Do they own you? Is ownership passe?
Do mice communicate meaningfully with you? Do you talk back? Do they listen?
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# Faith isn't omnipotent, writes John Horgan, nor is it always benign.
Religion is a fine therapy, but also foments intolerance. And as for
science... http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i07/07a07201.htm
# Cobra Kills Top Snake Charmer. BANGKOK (Reuters) Thailand's top snake
charmer was killed by one of his own cobras which turned on him during
a show. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-snake
: Do you have faith? Has faith killed you yet? Have you killed a believer
lately? Did they resent it? Do you? Is faith the best therapy? Are you nutz?
# Rabbis Excommunicate Assassin. JERUSALEM (Reuters) More than 50 Israeli
rabbis signed a decree excommunicating Yigal Amir, the right-wing Jew who
offed P.M.Yitzhak Rabin. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991014/11/odd-rabin
: Have you excommunicated anyone lately? Does it make everything all better?
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# Intel chief: 64-bit could take ten years to conquer desktop - And Moore's
Law isn't dead after all: http://www.theregister.co.uk/991013-000001.html
@ To meet the challenges of the future, we need to build a bridge back to
the 18th century: http://observer.com/cgi-win/homepage.exe?nyo1/b1101199
# Porno hacker fingered by AOpen: www.theregister.co.uk/991013-000016.html
# Porno squatters want $400k -- bare faced cheek -- Bare naked ladies give
way to bare naked capitalism: www.theregister.co.uk/991014-000014.html
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