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@ Exercise Your Brain: http://www.thiaoouba.com/seeau.htm
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# Millennium Forecasts From World Future Society. BETHESDA, Md /PRNewswire/
The World Future Society, whose members study trends and forecasts for
technology & society, has issued a list of 80 thought-provoking forecasts
for the year 2000 and beyond. No crystal balls were used to produce this
report. Probably. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991115/md_future__4.html
: How far can we trust any forecasts? Do events go off in whatever direction
they want, no matter what you predict? If you predict something long enough,
will you eventually be right? What's your favorite next-century scenario??
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# Wearable computers became a serious trend for the new millennium:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/timintint01005.html?1124027
: Would you rather wear a computer or be one? When will you have thin-layer
circuitry morphed onto your skin, covering your organs, spliced into your
skeletal structure? When will you go totally Borg? Where will you go next?
@ Biological Amplification: http://home.nas.net/~raven1/bioamp.htm
@ Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology:
http://www.philosophynews.com/book/excerpt/X00419991028.htm
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# Students discover future through palm-reading. (U-WIRE) COLLEGE STATION,
Texas. When Eric McAfee was a freshman, a palm reader told him he would
meet the girl he would marry in a class specific to his major and have
a very wealthy family. Three years later, McAfee, a junior wildlife and
fisheries major, is still waiting to meet his rich dream girl. It sounds
fishy to me: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991116/odd-164
: Is your future in your palm, or otherwise in your hands? Is your sex-life
there too? What's your favorite type of prophesy? Have many prophesies been
proclaimed regarding you? Do you prophesize much? Are you infallible? How?
@ Scandal! A grievous misunderstanding of the true nature of the tropical
year is being propagated in the most eminent & respectable reference books
<http://magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/cal_stud/cassidy/err_trop.htm> of
astronomy & calendrical matters. Also: www.memepool.com/Subject/Reference/
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# Engine runs on air - Despite skeptics, researcher believes in engine that
runs on air. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) - Imagine this: a combination motor and
air-conditioner that powers itself with nothing more than air. Impossible?
A hoax? Put up some cash: http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/ohio/docs/028248.htm
: Do you believe in quasi-perpetual-motion or over-unity-energy devices? Do
you believe in them enough to invest in them? Do you develop such devices?
Do you encourage investments? Do large corporate interests try to stop you?
@ "Effects of low power microwaves on the local cerebral blood flow
of conscious rats." http://home.nas.net/~raven1/v2s-nasa.htm
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# CLUCK, CLUCK, ARE YOU READY FOR CHICKEN 'PHARMS'? The technology exists
to genetically modify hens to lay "pharmaceutical" eggs - eggs containing
useful drugs. This could be a tremendous cost-saving achievement - if we
don't let our fear of genetic engineering get in the way. FrankenHens?
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22051
: Would you like to be genetically modified to produce chemicals useful for
your own well-being? If chickens are the intermediaries, who profits? If you
ARE so modified, does a biotech firm own a piece of you? Who pays royalties?
# Alternative Cancer Treatment Fails - Di Bella Multitherapy (MDB):
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991116/02/science-cancer-alternative
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# BubbleBoy to Burst? It's easy enough for users to burst the BubbleBoy
email virus. But most people won't. They never have. They never will.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32529,00.html?tw=wn19991115
: Have you squashed this virus yet? Has the virus squashed you? Do you write
virus code? Do you make unsquashable ones? Have you infected us all yet???
# MS Bug Opens Door To Your Hard Drive: http://www.msnbc.com/news/335418.asp
# MS Patches Win Hole: news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1438124.html?dtn.head
# Fjkheudhxekjdia.com: Get It While You Can:
http://www.canoe.ca/TechNews9911/15_kendall.html
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# Taliban executes Afghani woman. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Thousands of folks
watched & screamed encouragement as a woman, cowering in a pale blue all-
enveloping burqa, was beaten & shot & killed in the first public execution
of a woman in Kabul since the then-US-backed Taliban thugs took control 3
years ago. The Taliban have imposed their harsh brand of Islamic law in
the 90% of Afghanistan under their control, severely oppressing women
especially. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562104750-ef9
: When resistant women were assassinating Taliban goons a couple years ago,
how many were non-so-publically executed? Does your belief system promote
the dehumanization of women, children, opponents, dissidents? Do the voices
in your head tell you whose throat to slit, who to stone, who to shoot? How?
@ If you're convinced that Pat Buchanan <http://buchanan.org/gopatgo2000/>
is too soft and left-leaning to lead the U.S. in 2000, vote for Palpatine
<http://www.countdownalliance.net/nashville/palpy4pres/> for President.
Then kill some kommies at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Politics/
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SkeptiHuh?
# FOR ADULT EYES ONLY: CONDOM WEEK SLOGANS. They're already hard at work,
trying to find a good slogan for National Condom Week, which happens in
February. Here are a few not-ready-for-family-hour possibilities.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=22055
@ Let's go [concentration] camping with FEMA:
http://members.tripod.com/nwoholocaust/
http://www.thewinds.org/archive/government/camp9-97.html
http://www.best.com/~ray673/search/database/is5.6.html
http://www.crossfields.com/~watcher/fema.html
http://www.mt.net/~watcher/fema5.html
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/shuma/fema/fema.html
http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/camp.htm
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