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@ Elvis's handwritten letter to Nixon:
http://thesmokinggun.com/doc_o_day/doc_o_day.shtml
@ Postapocalyptic Elvis inspired swordfest:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?six-string+samurai
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# One of the most popular exhibits at Ars Electronica was "Bump:"
http://engel.fl.aec.at/festival99/life_timetable/detail.asp?nr=286 -- a
pneumatically actuated wooden walkway that communicated with a similar
bridge set up in Budapest. http://www.c3.hu/events/99/bump/
# Another neato AE bit was "Hamster - symbiotic exchange of hoarded energy."
http://engel.fl.aec.at/festival99/life_timetable/detail.asp?Nr=235 Robots,
which steer themselves but have no motors, were driven by hamsters running
in on-board wheels, who had no conception of their "task." The hamster-bot
symbiote must travel between a food station (for the hamsters) and a set
of bright lights that recharges the solar cells of the robots.
: What are your favorite interactive devices? Are you such a device? Are you
ingeniously-crafted, pneumatically-actuated, bumpy, symbiotic, driven, mad?
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# Sacred objects returned to Navajos. PHOENIX(AP) 4 sacred artifacts will be
returned to the Navajo Nation, more than a decade after being taken from a
New Mexico cave. Tribal leaders plan a public prayer ceremony in Window
Rock. The centuries-old objects include a mask, a tortoise shell and two
coverings that may be drum heads or ceremonial vessel coverings. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561193632-6b8
: What are your fave sacred objects? Have you stolen any sacred objects? Are
they sacred to you too? Has anyone taken your sacred objects? Do they belong
to you, or to them, or to your deities, or to their deities, or to me? Why?
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# Islam, a force for change. In the West the words "Islamic fundamentalism"
conjure up images of bearded men with turbans and women covered in black
shrouds. And some Islamist movements do indeed contain reactionary and
violent elements. But don't let stereotypes blind us to the facts: there
are also powerful modernising forces at work within these movements. Poli-
tical Islam is about change. In this sense, modern. Islamist movements may
be the main vehicle for bringing about change in the Muslim world and the
break-up of the old "dinosaur" regimes. What will come in their place is
less clear. See www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1999/09/?c=16islam
: Can your religious doctrine evolve? Can it evolve as fast as our knowledge
and understanding of the universe expands? Is religion relevant to reality?
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# COMPUTER RISKS: Leaving a field blank wipes out 13.2 billion pounds UK -
Smile for US Secret Service - NOAA predicts early winter - If it quacks on
1/1/2000, it must be a Y2K duck - Food expiry date misreading risks - Army
dumps NT, moves to Mac - New Hotmail breach reported - New ICQ Trojan -
Macro viruses and Word'97's built-in macro detector/disabler - Microsoft
Installs US Spy Agency with Windows - On Back Orifice - CPSR Confab: The
Internet Gold Rush of '99 - see http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.57.html
: Do you accept the risks of computer usage? Do voices in your head insist?
Have you created any computer risks? Are you clever? Are they insidious??
# Advice to Amiga fans: give up.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-120890.html
@ The other guy who links AI with Finnegans Wake:
http://ideonomy.mit.edu/gunkel.html
@ Profile of algorithms-god Donald Knuth:
http://salon1999.com/tech/feature/1999/09/16/knuth/
# The hopes and fears surrounding Windows 2000:
http://economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_wb4148.html
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# Hubble's hot stuff. (BBC) The Hubble space telescope has taken pictures of
stars at the hot & dynamic centre of our galaxy. And they're real beauts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449365.stm
# Merger mania in early Universe. (BBC) Astronomers have cleverly used a
supercomputer to model the collisions of galaxies in the early Universe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_448000/448996.stm
: What's your favorite astromical cataclysm? Do you prefer black holes that
devour the hearts of galaxies, galaxies in collision, star-eating demons,
capricious deities that obliterate superclusters heedlessly, supernovae??
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Stress-O-Rama:
# VITAMIN C MEGADOSES EASED STRESS IN STUDY OF RATS
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=15728
# PROTEIN PLAYS ROLE IN STRESS REACTION
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=16277
# DESK RAGE AND TECHNO-STRESS: NO, THEY'RE NOT NEW DANCE BANDS
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16291
# LIFE IN THE TOO-FAST LANE - Why doesn't tech make life easier?
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16696
# ROAD RAGE CAN TURN US ALL INTO BEASTS BEHIND THE WHEEL
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14234
@ ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES FOR MANAGING STRESS
http://www.health-net.com/altstres.htm
$ DON'T GET MAD - GET FUNNY!: USING HUMOR TO MANAGE STRESS
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1570251193/windomhealthsplaA/
# STRESS CAN JEOPARDIZE OUR HEALTH - physiological dysfunction?
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15383
# KEEP YOUR BLOOD LEAN AND CLEAN - CALM DOWN
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15592
# WE TAILOR OUR ANGER TO FIT THE SITUATION
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=15588
# STRESS - IT CAN MAKE YOU FORGETFUL AT ANY AGE
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16600
# BUBBLE WRAP: POP THAT STRESS AWAY
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16597
@ HAIR RESTORER - Balding Peter Biggs of England reported in 1973 that he
had gotten good results restoring hair to his balding head from horse
manure rubbed into his head.
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