-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991203c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No millennial madness was quenched during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Subterranean Waters & Fires: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/mundus.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Deadline looms for Rome millennium. ROME (AP) - In three weeks it's ready- or-not here they come, and Rome is still not fully ready for the tens of millions of pilgrims who will start pouring into the capital to celebrate the last Christmas of the millennium. The resultant chaos will be enter- taining: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562375862-c57 : Will you go to a holy site for the millennium? Will a zillion other relig- ious fanatics do the same? D'ya want to experience Armageddon with a zillion other religious fanatics? D'ya deserve that? Will y'all be easily harvested? # Vatican car park - Roman remains at risk? Where'll we put the tourists? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_546000/546208.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ If you're tall, you may want to celebrate the first dawn of the year 2000 by standing on Cadillac Mountain in Maine's Acadia National Park, <http://www.acadia.national-park.com/> because your head may then have the honor of being the first thing in the US to be hit by direct sun- light on that momentous morning. http://memepool.com/Subject/Science/ : If you go out of your way to gain the first light of the millennium, and it's all dark/foggy/overcast, or if Armageddon really happens and there is no morning, will you be, like, rilly rilly bummed? Will you go get drunk?? # City Appears Convinced of UFO Visit. SHANGHAI (Reuters) Shanghai appeared convinced on Friday that an unidentified flying object had visited China's commercial capital. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991203/07/odd-china-ufo _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Web Incognito. You'd better protect your PC's privacy while you're online. Web Incognito hides all of your private info -- email address, computer name, etc -- from Websites you visit, so YOU control who sees/distributes it. And because it accepts cookies, Web Incognito lets you experience the benefits of personalized surfing. Find out if this service delivers the goods: http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dYuEuoAEuwgmYguu : Have you protected your privacy lately? Did it do any good? Are they trac- king you anyway? Is privacy a fantasy? Do you fantasize a lot? Are you wet? # Where Do I Sign Up? (Reuters) European Space Agency scientists want volun- teers willing to spend 3 months in bed to help them study physiological effects of weightlessness. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991203/07/odd-bed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ If you've been wondering just what the critical technique of deconstruc- tion is from a practical standpoint How To Deconstruct Almost Anything <http://www.communities.com/paper/deconstr.html> will be of great help. And be constructive at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Commentary/ : Have you deconstructed anything lately? Can it ever be put back together? Should it be? Would you rather deconstruct ideas, items, humans, aliens, me? @ Love is about consumer choice. With Romeo dead and all, Juliet should have left the crypt, had a bath, and got herself a guy who was more alive, eh? http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-2/rosenzweig.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lords rejects Catholics. LONDON (AP) - The House of Lords rejected a move to change the nearly 300-year-old law that bars Catholics from the British throne. The 1701 Act of Settlement, which also forbids anyone married to a Catholic from becoming monarch, is seen as offensive in a modern, multi- cultural UK. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562376901-e0c : D'ya want a Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, Quaker, Satanist, Jain on y'r throne? # Lebanese fundamentalists condemned to death. (BBC) Five members of a Lebanese fundamentalist group have been sentenced to death for a series of attacks on Greek Orthodox churches in Tripoli in the past few months. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_548000/548409.stm : D'ya like to attack churches? Should you die? Should anyone? How fast?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Microsoft has a secret <http://freetune.com/images/msdomin.jpg> OS project which has it's own keyboard <http://www.freetune.com/images/mskey.jpg> and hidden settings <http://www.freetune.com/images/hidden_settings.gif> for your machine. And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Humor/ or else. # I always suspected that Apple <http://www.apple.com/> had some deep, dark secret <http://contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ee0r/wftcado/jrsj.html> to explain why they're not bankrupt yet. Also: http://memepool.com/Subject/Computing/ : Are the secrets of computer firms beyond the understanding of mere mortals like us? Are computers gifts from aliens, deities, demons, geek-gods, fate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Best Crackpot Religious Leader of the Millennium: Rasputin http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/m991108.html @ Best Visionary of Hell of the Millennium: Hieronymus Bosch http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/m991112.html @ Best Plague of The Millennium: The Plague, the Black Death http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/m991105.html # Black Holes in a Test Tube http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99878/displayLink # Human Proteins from Plants http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99944/displayLink # RCFoC: Repealing Moore's Law? http://jimfl.yi.org/links/99947/displayLink # Noctilucent Clouds http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99960/displayLink # Peptide Self-Replication http://jimfl.yi.org:88/links/99956/displayLink @ The Latest Risks: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.66.html @ Microsoft... the musical! http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ @ The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century: http://harpercollins.com/imprints/harper_sanfrancisco/spiritbooks.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Netscape roasting on an open fire, Apple begging on its knees, Photo popping up on Time magazine, Yes, Bill Gates dreams of days like these!" --anon http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/raunchy2.htm#bilg * Rev. 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