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@ F&SF 3D Gallery: http://members.xoom.com/duo3/fsf3d1.htm
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# Squirt Guns Sold for Science Funds. PITTSBURGH (AP) Not many companies
encourage their employees to shoot each other with squirt guns at work.
Then again, not many firms have squirt guns with glow-in-the-dark ammo.
Prolume does: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000106/17/glowing-genes
: D'ya wanna shoot your cow orkers? Have you shot any cow orkers lately? Did
you use colors, words, thoughts, rays, water, buckshot, moons, brandy, love?
@ The great invention of the past thousand years? Printing, maybe the micro-
chip? It might be something rather more humble, Umberto Eco sez: beans.
So musical. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/1999/1231/fea2.htm
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# Hackers become security consultants. WASHINGTON (AP) - Who ya gonna call?
Hackers? Some of the Net's most adept geeks are hoping big biz will soon
chant a "Ghostbusters"-like refrain: These hackers have formed a new firm
to advise the world's largest banks and hospitals how to keep their data
safe from cyber-intruders. The new VP of R&D - widely considered among the
world's leading hackers - will continue to use only his online handle,
"Mudge": http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563080682-174
: If you hack China, will you be hired or shot? Would you rather hack Pepsi?
If China buys interests in multinationals, will hacking become too risky??
# NEW COMPRESSION SYSTEM promises to deliver sound/images/video at much
greater rate & clarity than current technology. The fix is software-based,
so no hardware upgrades are needed. http://ft.com/hippocampus/q3183aa.htm
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# Nomads Need to Learn English. MOSCOW (Reuters) The people of the snowbound
and remote region of Yakutia, mainly Siberian nomads and ethnic Russians,
must learn English if they are to prosper, their regional leader has
decided. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000106/07/odd-yakutia
: Are you part of the Anglophone conspiracy? Have you succeeded beyond your
wildest dreams? Are all other languages doomed? Can you program in Latin?
# Gutenberg's Triumph: a free library, with stacks a place to wander in
and make discoveries, empowers us as nothing else. Example: Karl Marx.
http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/books/lat_bookreview1226.htm
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# Mensa leader Serebriakoff dies. LONDON (AP) - Victor Serebriakoff, who
helped build Mensa into a worldwide organization with thousands of members
who think they're pretty smart, is dead at age 87. He couldn't outsmart
time: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563088367-85f
# Indian sect leader Omkarananda dies. WINTERTHUR, Switzerland (AP) - Swami
Omkarananda, a Hindu monk and sect leader imprisoned in Switzerland for
attempted murder, had died of the flu at age 70. Meditate on THAT, dewd.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563087778-b19
: What's your favorite sect? Do you think, meditate, talk, plot, provoke? Is
your sect ripe? Are you ripe? Are you ready to be harvested? By whom? When?
@ Peter Singer's views on humans and animals, murder and euthanasia, have
provoked angry debate. Too bad his actions don't square with his ideals.
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/011000/coverstory011000.html
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# INTERNATIONAL PLEA: Versailles was badly hit by storms in the past week.
Some 10,000 trees were uprooted in 90-mile-an-hour winds and the palace
roof and windows were damaged. Now Versailles is trying to raise money for
repairs. Storm Damage: http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/tempete.htm
infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/heritage/heritage_01052000_versailles.phtml
: Are you an elemental force? Have you ever wanted to smash human cultural
treasures? Especially the French? Have you smashed many? Do you laugh at we
puny humans? Do you suspect that we may someday conquer you? Do you rage??
# AND THE AWARD FOR MOST SPECTACULAR New Year's show has to go to Paris'
Eiffel Tower. How'd it happen? "It took 5 months for a crew of 20 moun-
taineers & rock climbers to string the 20,000 screw-in bulbs on the 110-
year-old tower and an additional month for 47 more climbers & technicians
to set 4,800 pyrotechnic launches on 80 specially created tower decks."
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/06/magazine/TOWER06.htm
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@ Jeepers creepers! Imagine our very own planet invaded by 200 million
demonic horsemen. Mind you, that's even before Armageddon and the Last
Judgment: http://theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000jan/001gross.htm
@ Prepare yourself for <http://www.doogieland.com/analprobe/analcomm.html>
first contact by reading the <http://adrr.com/lingua/alien.htm> Handbook
of UFO Contact. Then wack out at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
: Would you rather be invaded by demonic horsemen, probed by aliens, dosed
with lots of sedatives, or lobotomized? Do you have a choice? Really? Eh?
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# Billions in Cash Shredded After Y2K. WELLINGTON (Reuters) New Zealand
began shredding NZ$2.6 bln (US$1.35 bln) worth of banknotes after the Y2K
bug failed to hatch. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000106/07/odd-cash
# Y2K - 'Next Few Months Will Be The Toughest' - Bug Still Lurks:
http://www.sightings.com/politics6/lurks.htm
# Y2K - Many Canada Consumers Clamour To Return Merchandise:
http://www.sightings.com/politics6/y2kcc.htm
: When will the real Y2K bug strike? Are you ready? Do you have enough cash,
weapons, food, drugs, implants, merchandise? Will the millennium sneak up??
# May with Mussolini? LECCE, Italy (Reuters) - A far-right Italian politico
has produced a calendar featuring nostalgic photos of late dictator Benito
Mussolini framed by rousing Fascist-era slogans. The front cover sports a
portrait of Il Duce below the words "Benito Mussolini -- with you in the
third millennium." http://news.excite.com/news/r/000105/06/odd-mussolini
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