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: No email imploded during the production of this bulletin. That I know of.
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# IMPLODING MESSAGES: YOU *HAD* MAIL. Say hello to the newest in über-
encrypted email. It's so secure it self-destructs after you read it.
Oh, and there's a US$50k reward for anyone who can decipher the key.
Fading ink: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21452.html
# Bank Sent Investors Virus In E-Mail. TOKYO (Reuters) One of Japan's
biggest banks said it accidentally e-mailed a computer virus to some
global investors last week, but said no harm was done to the investors'
or its own computer network systems. Not that they know of, anyway...
: Do you look forward to surprises in your email? Do you prefer email that
bites, explodes, burns, stinks, infects, rots, multiplies, disappears? Why?
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# Scared Ranchers Trade Cattle By Video. BOGOTA (Reuters) Colombian ranchers
are using videos to trade cattle rather than travel to auctions in the
countryside and run the risk of being kidnapped by Marxist guerrillas.
Rational: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-colombia-cattle
# TV To Transmit War In Black And White. BOGOTA (Reuters) Colombian TV will
stop airing color images of its long-running guerrilla war and instead
broadcast scenes of political violence in black and white, industry chiefs
said Thursday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-media-colombia
: Would you rather kill ranchers, cattle or guerillas? Would you rather see
live or dead cattle, in black-and-white or color, in person or on tape? Can
the images be manipulated by mind-controllers, aliens, robots, me? What for?
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# 'A FLAW WORSE THAN MELISSA'. A Windows bug permits an attacker to take
control of an entire PC, and all the owner has to do is open an email
message. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21459.html
# Swatting Down the Win 98 Bug. A day after significant security issues in
Windows and ActiveX were shown, companies scrambled to patch and spin.
LogiEpoxy: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21456.html
: What's your favorite WinBug? Is it a bug or a feature? Is Windoze a virus?
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# Tree-Eating Beetle Invades Manhattan. NEW YORK (Reuters) New York City
seems to be getting hit with catastrophes of biblical proportions this
summer. First sweltering heat, then drought, then floods that strand
thousands of people and now a plague of locusts well, tree-eating Asian
long-horned beetles to be exact. First-born sons are considered at risk
next: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-beetle-manhattan
: What's your favorite catastrophe of biblical proportions? Have you gener-
ated any catastrophes lately? Who have you afflicted? Why? Is it fun? Where?
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# Lobster-Cam on the Web. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) A new Web site is launching
lobsters into cyberspace. It's based inside an underwater trap at Spruce
Head, where a camera sends a new photo to http://www.midcoast.com/lobcam/
every 2 minutes, sometimes showing a caged crustacean poking its antennae
around or climbing across the lens. The pictures can only be seen during
the day until a burnt-out light in the trap is fixed. Sounds fishy to me.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560882072-6f0
: What's your favorite crustacean? Do you like to spy on crustaceans? Would
you mind if crustaceans spied on you? Do they crawl around inside your head?
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# Hippo Hurts Census Official. NAIROBI (Reuters) A hippopotamus seriously
injured a census official in Kenya's Hell's Gate national park, the latest
in a spate of accidents hampering the population survey, newspapers
reported Friday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-hippo
: Have hippo-controllers teamed with conservatives to thwart census efforts?
How effectively will the US census be disrupted? What animals will be used?
# Killer Bees Kill One, Injure 12:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990826/09/odd-mexico-bees
# Boy Attacked By Piranha In Canal:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990826/09/odd-japan-piranha
: Have animals declared war on humans? Have humans declared war on animals?
# Woman Charged With Stomping Mice In Porn Video. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) A
woman was ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges after a judge
viewed part of a pornographic videotape that showed her apparently stomp-
ing mice to death. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990827/10/odd-crime-mice
: Would you rather stomp mice, attack a census official, or be maimed by
bees and fish? Is bee-squishing pornographic? Have you had sex with a hippo?
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Y2K-a-Rama:
# Y2K - Major Problems Riddle The Web - Expert Says:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kmj.htm
# Y2K - Russia, Italy, Brazil Among Nations Headed For Severe Trouble:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2ksev.htm
# Y2K - Lawsuits Trickle In - May Be Start Of A Flood:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2klwst.htm
# Y2K - Banks Try To Reassure Customers About ATM Compliance:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2klwst.htm
# Y2K - DOD Tells State/Local Authorities To Prepare To Act Alone:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kdod.htm
# Y2K - Six countries won't be Y2K ready, including the US:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560885457-d82
# Y2K bug warning for software firms. (BBC) Leading software companies are
accused of failing to say whether their products are millennium-compliant.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_431000/431250.stm
# Y2K - Clergy Enlisted in Efforts: http://www.msnbc.com/news/304733.asp
# Y2K - Full Coverage: http://www.msnbc.com/news/TECHY2K_Front.asp
# Y2K - Where it will hit: http://www.msnbc.com/news/188031.asp
# Y2K - Tools to sniff & squash: http://www.msnbc.com/news/225076.asp
# Y2K - Internet resources: http://www.msnbc.com/news/227213.asp
# Y2K - Bulletin board: http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-y2k/index.asp
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