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@ Gov't Chicken Boy: http://mp3.com/artists/21/government_chicken_boy.html
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# Lawyer: Winston ad defames alien abduction victims. A so-called "UFO
lawyer" claims he's steamed about an ad that shows a flying saucer with
this caption: "If aliens are smart enough to travel through space, why
do they keep abducting the dumbest people on Earth?" Peter Gersten says
the quip is defamatory and he's encouraging abductees to come out of the
closet and prove they're intelligent beings. Of CAUS they are:
http://www.space.com/area51/caus_vs_tobacco_990928.html
: Have you been abducted? Are you intelligent? Can you prove it? Are you a
member/supporter of CAUS? Did you give Peter Gersten money? Is he worth it?
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# Scientologists beware. The Church of Virus <http://lucifer.com/virus/>
is a new memetically-engineered atheistic religion that is even now
hungrily sweeping up all your best prospects for conversion. Or become
one with The Church Of The Otter <http://tcoto.da.ru> [t'CotO], eh?
: Have you engineered a new belief system lately? Since all belief systems
[Games] are modular and interchangeable, which prior Games have you borrowed
from? Do you like being a Game Master? Have you meme-infected many Players?
@ Wherein lies the truth of oral history? In the raw, fresh memory
of an event, or a memory bathed in the light of wisdom that comes
with distance? http://www.civmag.com/articles/C9909E06.html
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# YOU ARE WHAT YOU WARE. Put on an infocharm and it'll remind you
where you've been and tell others who you are. In fact, the firm
that makes them wants you to wear a computer everywhere you go.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/culture/story/21976.html
# BEHOLD, THE ?BERTOOL. It's a phone, it's a Web browser, it's a video
camera, it's a personal digital assistant. Orange, one of the UK's
leading cellular carriers, plans to roll out a wireless videophone
next year. http://wired.com/news/news/tip/business/story/21970.html
: Would you rather carry a computer, wear one, swallow one, be one? Will you
have any choice about this in a couple years? Will implants be mandatory???
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@ LINKING THE WORLD - SHORTWAVE RADIO THEN, THE WEB NOW. The comparison of
the Net with the early days of radio works not just on a personal level.
The first radio enthusiasts were much ridiculed by the chattering classes
of th'day. They were seen as cranks with their weird equipment - crystals,
antennae, coils, cat's whiskers, horns - and laughed at because of their
willingness to spend long hours waiting to hear the crackling hiss of a
distant broadcast. http://www.briefhistory.com/pages/sampler.htm
: Have you a lifelong yearning to connect? Did you connect at an early age?
Were you a pioneer, an enthusiast? Were you ridiculed? Are you smug now? Eh?
@ Why are there Braille resources in a medium that requires sight?
Are you blindly curious? http://www.nyise.org/braille.htm
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# Japan doomsday cult may change name. TOKYO (AP) The Japanese cult accused
of a deadly Tokyo subway gassing and other killings may change its name &
admit that its members were behind the attacks. Then everything will be
just fine. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561375252-6b6
: Have you changed the name of y'r doomsday cult lately? Did everyone forget
about all the foul, evil deeds you have done? Have you confessed? What name
did you use in the confession? Have you changed your doomsday date? When to?
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# Terror In The Sanctuary. Many evangelicals have begun to see "committed
Christians" as the latest victims of hate crimes of the sort perpetrated
upon blacks, women and gays. They have also begun to view those attacks in
terms of the history of their faith - as acts of Satan, and as part of a
persecution that stretches back to the earliest days of Christianity,
during which countless believers suffered/died for professing their faith.
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,31191,00.html
: Does expansionist faiths practice cultural genocide, trying to wipe out
traditional belief/culture/social systems? Is payback fair? Is your culture
threatened by intolerant proselytizers? How do you react? With self-defense?
@ Sentiment is a poor basis for law, and a dangerous tool in politics.
Maybe some unwinnable wars are best left unfought. Hate crimes?
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990926mag-hate-essay.html
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@ The great Museum of the History of Science http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/
in Florence has a whole honking roomful of the relics of Galileo Galilei
<http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/>. And I don't just mean lenses
<http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/eiv01.html> and groady lodestones
<http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/eiv09.html>. I mean genuine relics
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/eiv10.html. Dig the bits, eh?
: Do you collect relics? Whose relics do you have? Do they miss them? Do you
collect celebrities, artists, scientists, politicos, execs? Do you just take
plaster casts, or demand actual body parts? Do voices in your head insist??
# Meet the World's Fastest and Coldest PC. (TIME) KryoTech's
"thermally accelerated" Athlon-powered machine runs at 800MHz:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,31614-101990928,00.html
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@ Tasty snacks for the intellectually starved: http://www.memepool.com/
@ Mid-East Realities (MER): http://WWW.MiddleEast.Org
# Microsoft <http://microsoft.com/> agrees to acquire Stanford University
<http://www.stanford.edu/> for five billion dollars - to be called MSU.
http://www.stanfordalumni.com/articles/99_1_microsoft_buys_su.html
# China - Surprised By Faith:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,31503,00.html
# A New Theory About Einstein's Love Child:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,31490,00.html
# Many unhappy with Reagan biography - Ronnie doesn't care:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561376049-19e
# NYC museum debates pulling painting - holy shit:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561375685-f6d
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