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@ Breaking news of the ancient world: http://julen.net/ancient/breaking.html
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# Buffs baffled by UFO. CHICAGO - It is certainly a UFO. It is being called
a close encounter of the first kind. But don't expect E.T. to be phoning
home just yet. That's because all that sci-fi-like jargon does not neces-
sarily mean the enormous triangular object spotted drifting silently thru
the crisp night air over southwestern Illinois two weeks ago is from outer
space. "To prove something is an alien spacecraft requires a piece of it,
requires the aliens to land and say `Here we are,' You can't prove some-
thing like this is an alien spacecraft without some extraordinary piece
of evidence." Oh bother. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/ufo19.html
$ All the alien artifacts you'll ever need: http://www.alienartifacts.com/
@ Verified UFO Documents: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cufon-v.htm
: What's your favorite alien artifact? Have you collected any/many alien
artifacts yet? Are they solid evidence? Did MiB confiscate the artifacts?
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# Who Needs NASA? Do-it-yrself astropreneurs buck the system to put a schmo
into orbit. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/schmoes.html/mg20004
# Book Me a Double - With a View of Venus. Leaving Las Vegas Spaceport?
Join the 239,000-mile-high club aboard the Bigelow rocket hotel.
http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/rocketman.html/mg20004
: What's your favorite space business? Do you have a space business? Do you
have Reptoids as silent partners? Did'ya have to bribe many Grays? How much?
# Portable Gizmos: http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=5044
@ At the end of this month SoloTrek <http://www.solotrek.com/> will show a
product <http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/index1.html> they claim will enable
individual VTOL flight. Either this is a really great web hoax that has
the media <http://www.bayinsider.com/news/1999/09/10/fox2000_flying.html>
fooled, or we're really <http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/photos.html> living
in the future. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Gadgets/
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# Canada: graphic smoke warning. OTTAWA (AP) - With smokers jaded by written
warnings, the Canadian govt hopes graphic photos of diseased mouths, lungs
& brains plastered on cigarette packages will shock them into kicking the
habit. New proposed regulations require cigarette makers to cover 50% of
each pack with color photos of cigarette-damaged organs or the image of a
drooping cigarette to symbolize smoke-caused impotence. Written warnings
with the images also would be graphic. One would say: "Warning: tobacco
use can make you impotent. Cigarettes may cause sexual impotence due to
decreased blood flow to the penis. This can prevent you from having an
erection." http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563496406-80b
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_611000/611368.stm
: Do you smoke? Does smoke affect alien implants? Are you more likely to be
dissuaded from smoking by graphic images, graphic warnings, alien implants,
mind-control rays, extended hospitalization? Should I just shoot you dead?
# Don't Die, Stay Pretty - The exploding science of superlongevity:
http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/forever.html/mg20004
# Laptops Run on Alcohol. (Wired) Engineers make a tiny battery fueled by
methanol that can eliminate recharging for cell phones & laptop computers.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33767,00.html?tw=wn20000120
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# Beheading teen's parents fined. TOKYO (AP) - The parents of a teen-age boy
convicted of beheading a boy, fatally bludgeoning one girl and stabbing
another will pay about US$2.85 million in fines and damages to victims'
families. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563497567-e8d
: Have you beheaded anyone recently? Did you pay for the privilege? How much
would you pay to behead your relatives, neighbors, politicians, cow orkers?
# Coveted Crocodile Genitals. NAIROBI (Reuters) Kenyan wildlife wardens
had to intervene to stop a group of prostitutes from stealing the
genitals from the carcass of a crocodile they killed in Lake Victoria.
Yummy: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000120/13/odd-crocodile
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# `Star Trek' could boldly go on forever, to actor's delight:
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/6/justgo/docs/030570.htm
# Snips and Snails and Ribosome Tails - Every kid's dream come true.
A dog that never dies - and a best friend who can be unplugged.
http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/robodog.html/mg20004
: What's your favorite form of immortality? Do you want family/friends/pets/
politicos/cow orkers that can be unplugged? Should you be unplugged? When?
# CJD 'will not be an epidemic' (BBC) The human form of mad cow disease
(BSE) may eventually kill thousands of people, but is unlikely to become
an epidemic, researchers have said. Just like a very very very bad cold:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_610000/610151.stm
@ Links: BSE Inquiry Home Page: http://www.bse.org.uk/
@ The UK CJD Surveillance Unit: http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/
@ Epidemiology of Infectious Disease: http://www.ceid.ox.ac.uk/
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# Clinton For Computer Snooping. (Wired) The White House reserves the right
to sneak into your home with a warrant, copy your software, and spy as you
surf. http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33779,00.html?tw=wn20000120
: Has the govt snooped on your home computer lately? How can you tell? Have
you snooped on the govt lately? Did they find out? Is snooping fun? Where?
@ Animal Farm: A Fairy Story: http://www.ddc.net/ygg/etext/animal.htm
@ Today's reminder that you really have no privacy: a sample chapter from
<http://oreilly.com/catalog/dbnation/chapter/ch06.html> Simson Garfinkel's
<http://www.simson.net/> book <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbnation/>
Database Nation. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Books/
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# China defends Tibetan policies. WASHINGTON (AP) China says a revered teen-
age monk who fled to India a few days ago would be welcomed back, but the
Chinese govt will continue to control ordination of key Buddhist religious
figures. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563485910-120
# Deus Ex Silico - A physicist explains why God is in the chips:
http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/god.html/mg20004
# Pope to visit Egypt, will cast magical spells, cloud men's minds:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563503003-119
@ Bible As It Should Be: http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
: Should religions be controlled by holy guys, govts, computers, financiers?
Are your deities in the sky, on paper, in chips, in your head, off the wall?
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