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LISTOWNER NOTE: Today is 13 August 1999. Reportedly, the Aztec calendar
ends today - there's no tomorrow. Some construe this as a prediction of
The End Of The World. Others say that the Aztecs plagiarizing the Mayan
calendar were too lazy to write down the next cycle. Whatever. If this
is The Last Day, I just want to say that it's been fun. Cya --Ric
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# Are you a friggatriskaidekaphobe? (CNN) Margaret Downey wants you to limbo
under a ladder, waltz with anyone costumed in a black-cat outfit and break
as many mirrors as you can. And she says the more superstitious you are,
the better - it is, after all, the last Friday the 13th of the millennium.
"Friday the 13th is complete bunk, it's nonsense," said Downey, organizer
of the Anti-Superstition Carnival in Philadelphia. Those attending will be
poking fun at superstitions -- and having fun in the process.
http://cnn.com/US/9908/12/Fridaythe13th.ap/index.html
: What's your favorite superstition? Do you avoid gatherings of 13 aliens?
Do you prefer your black cats curried, BBQ'd or southern-fried? To knock on
wood, do you tap your own head? Do mirrors spontaneously break around you?
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# Life on Earth traced earlier. (AP) - Scientists studying Australian rocks
have found evidence that primitive forms of life existed 2.7 billion years
ago - a billion years earlier than had been previously shown. The finding
pinpoints signs of life to the Archean era, the period from the beginning
of Earth to about 2.5 billion years ago. That's even older than Bob Dole.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560683347-b73
: Is this evidence real, or was it planted by deities/aliens/agents to trick
humans to accept evolution? Where/when would you like life to have begun???
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# Don't mention the gnaw. (BBC) A man bitten on the calf by a mystery woman
while dancing on a table at the Munich beer festival developed the flesh
eating bug, necrotising fasciitis. Calf-biting is regularly practiced at
the festival as is known by the German name of Wad'lbeisser. Love at 1st
bite: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_418000/418803.stm
# Laptops mit Lager - The Open Source Beer Hike. Geeks from around the world
gather in Bavaria to hike the hills, sip the beer, and talk about Linux.
Not necessarily in that order. Watch out for flesh-eating bacteria, calf-
biting gals: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21249.html
Who's behind the plot to wipe out mankind, or at least the smartest program-
ming geeks, by getting them beer-drunk and infecting them? Is this another
fiendish plan from Bill Gates? Will he stop at NOTHING to stomp Linux? Eh?
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# China accuses Falun Gong leader. BEIJING (AP) China's state media boosted
attacks on the founder of a banned meditation group, accusing him of plan-
ning and directing a big protest outside the Chinese leadership's Beijing
HQ. Hinting that the gov't may put other group leaders on trial, state-run
TV also singled out several Falun Gong organizers for their involvement in
the silent, daylong protest by more than 10,000 followers seeking legal
recognition. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560682567-d7e
: When will Communism fall to meditation? Can the Chinese gov't thwart the
irresistible force of Falun Gong? How many folks will be executed, tortured?
# The Net: Enemy of the State? You can't surf the Net in Tajikistan. A
French media group declares that nation, and 19 others, to be enemies of
the Internet. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21240.html
: When will authoritarianism fall to Internetting? Can dictatorships thwart
the irresistible force of the Web? How many netizens will be persecuted??
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# Eichmann papers found in Germany. BERLIN (AP) - Adolf Eichmann's apparent
first attempt at a prison memoir has been found in files brought to Germ-
any decades ago after the Nazi war criminal's trial in Israel. A German
Nazi hunter came across the 127 handwritten pages two days ago. The pages
titled "My Memoirs" were located in prosecution files brought to Germany
after the Holocaust mastermind's 1962 execution. He only followed orders:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560683321-cb1
http://www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/nat/memoir081299.htm
: Does your belief system promote genocide? Do you compose excuses for your
place in the system? Are you just a cog in the machine? Who do you grind??
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# Belgium McDonalds burnt to ground. ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) A McDonald's fast
food restaurant was burnt to the ground, and police think the fire was the
work of a militant animal rights group that has claimed responsibility for
similar attacks in the past. "The letters ALF were painted at the scene."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560678210-294
: Was MacFoodLand torched by the Animal Liberation Front or by an Alien Life
Form? Would you pollute he sacred temple of your body with the putrid flesh
of dead animals? Do you prefer them flame-broiled, BBQ'd, curried, or raw?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Hackers may be snooping on you. Security flaw in Windows and Sun OS:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2313209,00.html
# Starium Promises Phone Privacy - sub-US$100 telephone scrambling devices:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/techonology/story/21236.html
@ Conspiracies: http://angelfire.com/nj/kristinashomepage/conspiracy.html
@ Skeptics_talk list: http://www.netspace.org/cgi-bin/lwgate/skeptix
@ the World's Largest Paranormal Website: http://www.ufomind.com
# Hubble Space Telescope finds what happens when a star gobbles a planet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_418000/418752.stm
# LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PUBLISHES GUIDE TO LITERARY MAPS - How do the authors
define a 'literary map'? http://cnn.com/books/news/9908/11/loc.mapbook/
# Warren Beatty may run for US Presidency - Democratic or Reform party:
http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9908/12/beatty.president.nyt/index.html
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