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@ Correction: http://surfingtheapocalypse.com/Graphics/dancingalienbaby.gif
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# I, robot. Will self-replicating robots rule us? Will we become hybrids,
part human and part machine? Such questions no longer come from fanatics
and fearmongers http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/107/focus/I_robot+.shtml
# Your Future Foretold by a Horse! More Psychic than Nostradamus,
Able to out-spoon-bend Uri Geller, It's the Psychic Horse. Sees
all, knows all, tells all: http://www.whimsica.com/psychichorse.htm
# UK Tomato Growers Make Beeline for Feng Shui Advice. LONDON. Tomato
growers have turned to the ancient Chinese art of feng shui in the
hope of producing a bumper crop to compete against cheaper imports.
Rotsa ruck, guys: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_fengsh.htm
: How cybernetic/human/spiritual/unreal is your organism? Have you hit upon
the right mix yet? Are you working on having a better future? What will you/
it be like? Is your future better foretold by robots, cyborgs, psychics, me?
@ Luke Skywalker is gay? Heard the naughty rumors about Capt. Kirk
and Mr. Spock? http://slate.msn.com/Features/fanfic/fanfic.asp
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# Watch This Space And Win Bigger Breasts. VIENNA (Reuters) An Austrian
television station is offering women a breast enlargement operation
in a bid to boost viewing numbers for its tabloid program. The
booby-prize: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000420/08/odd-breasts
# Scientists Rewire Visual Function of the Brain. (Reuters) Scientists have
rewired the visual input of young animals to a part of the brain normally
used for hearing, demonstrating a versatility of function that might some
day lead to treatments for brain damage and blindness. Won't help stupid-
ity tho: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000419/sc/science_brain_1.html
# Research Into Our Sixth Sense - What colour is this woman thinking of?
Déjà vu, precognition: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/p_sixth.htm
@ "As far above us as we are above the amoeba" http://caus.org/mc042000.htm
: Are your sensory organs well-organized? Do they need rewiring? Would you
like to have your senses rewired, just for the entertainment value? Will you
become a better person? Will you have bigger tits? Will you think of colors?
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# Skeptics Take Aim at Alien Abductions. Minneapolis - Life would be more
exciting if science lightened up a bit. Elvis Presley could croon at the
White House. ETs could stalk the aisles at 7-Eleven. Martians could carve
giant stone faces on their planet to keep watch on those pesky Earthlings.
It's almost too bad these events don't happen, because pseudoscience can
be lots more fun than real science. www.farshore.force9.co.uk/n_skept0.htm
# Ghosts Are Real. The movie "The Sixth Sense" is now fascinating audiences
all around the world with its story of a child who can see dead people.
But it's only a movie. Valerie Dean is a Johannesburg psychic who can not
only see ghosts but also talks to them. Her ability was tested by the
South Africa Society for the Study of the Paranormal and she was given
an A-Plus rating. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/saghost1.htm
: D'ya prefer real science, psuedo-science, Christian Science, creation sci-
ence, computer science, political science? Is any discipline with 'science'
in its name a bogosity/religion/superstition? Has Elvis left the building??
@ I KISS YOU! I like travel I go 3-4 planets every month. I went Earth, Ska-
ro, Peladon,Axos, Galifrey, Skonnos, Ravalox, Vortis, Sense-sphere, Telos,
Mars, Exarius,Tara, Manussa, Benidorm. I like sex. I like to be friendship
from different planet. I live in TARDIS -many times ...( all galaxies -
often earth - much history)... http://www.angelfire.com/nt/mahirwho/
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# Medical scanner shows dino heart. (BBC) The first ever fossilised dinosaur
heart has been discovered by scientists in the US. Ya gotta have heart,
eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_720000/720871.stm
TurbDino: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259902.stm
# Caught in their tracks (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711994
# Giant found in dino graveyard http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9711995
# Rethinking the Dinosaur (ABC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9712085
# LOST TRIBES FOUND. The Lost Tribes of Israel have all been located and
accounted for. Sent into exile nearly 3,000 years ago, descendents of
the original ten tribes can still be found in Burma, China, India,
Pakistan, Afghanistan. http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/tentribe.htm
: Have you found anything/anyone lately? Did anyone know it/they were lost?
D'ya find a lot of stuff just by looking around? Would you rather find Jews,
dinos, money, yourself? Have you lost yourself lately? Did anyone notice??
# Philippines plane debris searched - no Reptoid bodies found yet:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565846657-540
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Conspiracies'R'Us:
# Iran cleric urges reformers' deaths. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line
cleric urged his followers to kill pro-reform writers and activists
whom he says are undermining Iran's revolutionary principles. "Kill
them wherever you find them. This is God's unchangeable tradition."
Yow. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565841480-812
# HACKING AWAY: Pro-ETA Basque separatist Hackers zapped the Web site of
Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum. www.computeruser.com/news/00/04/19/news1.html
# CANADIAN TEEN CHARGED IN WEB SITE ATTACK RELEASED - MafiaBoy runs for
nearest modem: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/19/dos.investigation
# NSA, CIA: Big Bro Not Watching: http://farshore.force9.co.uk/n_bbro00.htm
@ Noam Chomsky scores valid points against NATO's actions in Kosovo,
but they are sullied by a torrent of ad hominem accusations. What
a pickle: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/archive/sp00/neier.html
# Clinton calls memorial site 'sacred' - sacrifices Constitution on bloody
altar: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565850542-6a8
# Bush-appointed police chief resigns over "porch monkey," "niggers"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565860879-ab6
@ Sure, you're familiar with their dictatorships, but what about their
fashion sense? http://www.visi.com/~sgrantz/dict_fash/index.html
@ LOST AND FOUND: A growing number of stolen Chinese artifacts turn up in
Japan, a clear-cut example of a rampant global problem: cultural vampir-
ism. Yow: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/china-relics.html
# World Bank protesters hold vigil - devouring soy milk, chicken,
juice and bagels, stew with lentils, potatoes and cabbage. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565848280-d9c
# Low-fat, high-fibre diet's anti-cancer benefits doubted - darn:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565849050-a69
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