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@ CALENDARS: Christian, Hebrew, Islamic, French Revolutionary, Mayan,
and Chinese calendars: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/calendars/faq/
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# How Much for This Tear Gas? (Wired) Collections of WTO "riot memorabilia"
are being auctioned off on eBay. There's no shortage of collectors dying
to get their hands on mementos of the "last great riot" of the 1900s. Is
this perverted? http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,32951,00.html
: Do you look fondly back at those great days in Seattle? When do you start
production on WTO: THE MUSICAL? Will Chinese slave-labor prisoners be forced
to produce counterfeit memorabilia to fill the frantic demands of WTO buffs?
# CHARGES DROPPED: Earlier this fall, prominent New York art dealer Mary
Boone was arrested after her gallery gave out live ammunition accompanying
a show by artist Tom Sachs. Her brush with New York's legal system was a
"kind of interesting adventure," she says. Not exactly Guns'n'Roses:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-boone.html
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# Sistine Chapel Restored. VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican completes its two-
decade restoration of the Sistine Chapel Saturday with the dedication of
newly bright frescoes created by Botticelli and his peers more than five
centuries ago. Pope John Paul II will preside over the service celebrating
the restoration of the frescoes, scenes from the lives of Jesus and Moses
that line the chapel walls beneath better-known frescoes by Michelangelo
overhead. Improved depth, color and detail - a wide-screen spectacular:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562475428-a52
: What's your favorite religious art? Does your belief system employ art to
gain converts, insert memes, impose mindcontrol? Are you successful? Very?
# PAGANINI DISCOVERY: Manuscripts for 12 violin & guitar sonatas by Paganini
have been found in Italy. They were written "with teaching in mind." To be
auctioned: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9912/09/features/features10.html
: Did Paganini cut a deal with Satan to enhance his musical prowess? Do you
wish you had? Are Satanic deals your favorite self-improvement programs? Eh?
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# ARE THEY COMING FOR US? There's another solar system in our galaxy,
and the lights we're seeing may well be somebody's highbeams. Duck
and cover: http://www.annoyed.com/daryl-lease/cosmic-angst.htm
: Are you afraid of aliens? Should they be afraid of us? Will any ETs be as
nasty, vicious, ruthless, genocidal as we humans have shown ourselves to be?
@ Filer's Files - UFO reports: http://www.filersfiles.com
@ National UFO Reporting Center: http://www.ufocenter.com
@ Private UFO Investigations: http://ufo-pi.homepage.com/
@ Georgian Ufological Assn: http://www.gufoa.kheta.ge/english.html
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# DNA Patent Invalid. SAN FRANCISCO(AP) An important patent for DNA analysis
owned by biotech giant Hoffman-La Roche was obtained by deliberately mis-
leading the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and is invalid, a federal judge
has ruled. The patented substance is Taq DNA Polymerase. Developed from
bacteria, it allows molecular biologists to use the replication process
known as polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, much more quickly and cheaply
than previous methods developed in the 1980s. Lawyers frothing to appeal -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562481396-d81
: Is control of DNA research/manipulation too important to let legalities
intrude? Are the stakes too high? If you impede biotech giants, will they
wipe your DNA? Will you and your progeny vanish, obliterated from reality?
# "Frozen Pictures" Allow Far-Reaching Glimpse Into Cell�s Protein Factory.
The structure of the small ribosomal subunit has been determined at the
highest resolution ever achieved by a team of scientists. They located key
ribosomal features, including the site where protein biosynthesis begins.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/12/991208055512.htm
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# Virgin Mary In New Jersey? Devout Catholics flock to a Jersey City super-
market to catch a glimpse of what they believe to be a manifestation of
the Virgin Mary on a freezer door. She sure picks some strange places:
http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/vmarynews.html
: Do deities, saints & other significant supernatural entities of y'r belief
system often choose to manifest in dust, rust, stains, mold, crops? Do they
communicate with humans via crop circles, fungus circles, lichen circles??
@ Celestine Journal: http://www.celestinevision.com
@ BioRhythms woo woo: http://biorhythmscalendar.com/
@ The Prophets Conference ~ Santa Fe - woo woo woo:
http://www.greatmystery.org/santafeconference.html
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# MUSICAL REDUX: Musical hackers have been mining recordings to digitally
remix music of all sorts & re-release it. Latest object of their affection
- world music. Says one: "It is from such encounters that the most beauti-
ful projects are born." And they don't have to pay the creators royalties:
http://infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/musop/musop_12061999_lirobbins.phtml
: Have you hacked any world music lately? Do you prefer worldly or unworldly
music? Do you steal music from natives, aliens, voices in your head, me? Do
you make a good living at it? Will you be punished in an afterlife? Which?
# Digital Music Will Cost You. (Wired) Distributing music over the Net costs
companies more, not less, & consumers can expect to absorb the difference.
It figures: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32674,00.html
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@ Out of Body Experiences. Throughout history, OBE's have been reported
across all cultures, religions, belief systems & social classes. In II
Corinthians 12:2, Saint Paul writes of a possible OBE. Paul wrote of a
man who, fourteen years previously, was caught up to the third heaven.
Paul wasn't sure whether the man was in the body or out of it. Neither
am I: http://www.xprojectmagazine.com/archives/paranormal/obe.html
: Have you left your body lately? Will you return anytime soon? Has Elvis
left the building yet? Are you riding with Him to Mars? Does he share pills?
@ "Enigma" research journal: http://cropcircleresearch.com/Enigma/
@ Area 51 'News': http://www.dreamlandresort.com/news.html
@ Science Frontiers: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/
@ Darwinism: http://members.theglobe.com/Lars101/evol.html
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