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@ She-Pirate: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/benji_moon/she.jpg
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# Pokemon-Induced Seizures Caused By Abnormal Brain Response. (Reuters) --
Italian scientists have figured out how an episode of the TV cartoon
Pokemon may have caused epileptic seizures in 685 Japanese children in
1997. The problem was caused by an abnormal brain response in these
children to flashing lights featured in the cartoon, signaling a brain
disorder known as photosensitive epilepsy. It could just as easily been
REN & STIMPY: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000222/hl/cha_49.html
: Has your brain malfunctioned from inappropriate visual stimuli lately? Do
your alien implants protect you from seizures; prevent you from knowing that
you convulsed; take you to a transcendent realm where brains don't matter??
Is modern life too complex? Should TV/video/cinema/radio/humanity be banned?
# Seeking simplicity: Groups ponder ways to uncomplicate lives:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150014550,00.html
# Seeking simplicity: For some, the simple life is tied to faith:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150014552,00.html
# Monkeys stone cattle herder to death in Kenya - a new jihad?
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564549195-111
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# Churchman jailed for beheading son's lover. (BBC) A former church steward
has been jailed for life for beheading his son's ex-lover after discover-
ing their secret affair. Chatted with God to arrange the murder - God not
charged: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_655000/655294.stm
# Man had sex with cow: http://www.rivertowns.net/daily/hso/c991112/
$ Get 3 condoms for free: http://www.drdrew.com/promos/condom/index.html
# NASA: no zero-gravity sex: www.foxnews.com/science/022300/space_trysts.sml
http://www.megastar.co.uk/site/today/news/latest/20000223n_astronauty.html
@ Egyptian Love Poetry: www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.html
: Do you have issues/problems/anxieties with your deities about sex? Do your
deities counsel you on sex/violence/manners? Do they talk straight to you?
Do they ever lie to you? Do you take them to account? Do they punish you?
# Environmentalists protest at Vatican - Jehovah strikes them dead:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564549175-f04
# Israelites sue God for breach of covenant - 117 specific instances
cited: http://www.theonion.com/onion3606/israelites_sue.html
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# Human Cell Immortality Switch Found - The End Of Death? BOSTON (ABC) - No
one can live forever. Or can they? Scientists have found a way to create
human embryonic stem cells in a lab. The stem cells, which can form every
kind of human tissue, normally exist only for a few days at the beginning
of life. "As a human race we may see our final frontier as conquering
death itself." http://www.sightings.com/politics6/immort.htm
# Bird brains offer stem cells hope. (BBC) Scientists may have activated
repair mechanisms in bird brains - someday it may help humans. Immortal!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_655000/655194.stm
# Also - Lab grows frog eyes - ophthalmologists, LASIK surgeons frantic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_591000/591696.stm
# Stem cells top class of 1999 - intestinal flora wear dunces' caps:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_567000/567882.stm
: Are you ready for immortality? Will it ruin your retirement plans? Do you
want to live forever? Will you get bored? Will you open an Ethical Suicide
Parlor to capitalize on other elders' boredom, ennui, poverty? How soon??
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# CIA Whistle-Blower Launches Cuba Internet Service. HAVANA (Reuters) -
Former CIA whistle-blower Philip Agee, whose crusade to expose agents made
him a hero of the left in the 1970s but won him many enemies in Washing-
ton, has launched a new Web site in Havana promoting tourism to communist-
run Cuba. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000224/wr/usa_agee_4.html
# Former Che-hunting Bolivia minister killed by his own bomb:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564538064-24d
: Does y'r conspiracy work for/against Castro? When you take control of Cuba
will you use it as a tobacco/cannabis/opium plantation; vast brothel; source
of ET-implant recipients; test-bed for social-control programs/technologies?
# Face-recognition technology raises fears of Big Brother. Your face is on
its way to becoming your "fingerprint" - for accessing ATM machines, ent-
ering the workplace, checking in at airline ticketing counters and even
getting you into your own computer. And passing through Customs, police
checkpoints, etc: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150015975,00.html
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# The Top Ten Technological Achievements Of The Twentieth Century, As If
You Cared: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34491,00.html
1) Electrification; 2) Autos; 3) Airplanes; 4) CleanWater; 5) Electronics;
6) Radio/TV; 7) AgriTech; 8) Computers; 9) Phones; 10: Refrigeration & Air
Conditioning; 11) Autobahns; 12) Spaceflight; 13) Internet; 14) Medical
Imaging; 15) Home Appliances; 16) HealthTech; 17) PetrolTech; 18) Laser/
FiberOptics; 19) NuclearTech; 20) High-Performance Materials. What else?
[via http://www.fark.com/ but I should have caught this one myself]
: What's y'r favorite technology? Does reading qualify? Are new technologies
generally tools of social/individual enslavement/liberation/enrichment/pain?
Are Believers doomed to be devoured by Technophiles? Will it happen soon???
# Iranian bureaucrats create 'official' and underground music cultures:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/24/iran_culture/index.html
@ Bagdikian - Media Monopoly: http://eserver.org/filmtv/media-monopoly.txt
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# Windows Can Deny Service, Too. Web vandals no longer need Unix servers
to launch denial-of-service attacks. A new version of the software that
crippled several Web sites can now be used from everyday PCs. Boogers.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34541,00.html?tw=wn20000224
# Victory for Israel Hack Meet? (Wired) An Israeli politician who tried to
bar a hacker conference admits she may have acted hastily. Tsk tsk...
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34504,00.html?tw=wn20000224
: D'ya know the difference between hacking [exploring technologies] and cra-
cking [breaking technologies]? Have you hacked/cracked any complex systems
lately: info-webs, life, reality? What's your favorite reality-hack? Why?
# MS Hacked - NOT! http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34540,00.html
# Hacker Charged: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34539,00.html
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