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# Grab the Wire: http://members.tripod.com/~StormTrooper_2/index2.htm
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# Some Triangle Sightings Blamed On Satellites - Explanations of a curious
celestial phenomenon: a triangle of lights crossing the night sky. NOSS/
Parcae sightings probably do not account for very many of the flood of
"triangle UFO" sightings. The lights are dim, are visible only for an hour
or so before and move in straight lines across the sky. Still, the
phenomenon underscores the richness of prosaic visual stimuli out there
waiting to mislead naive observers, and so would-be researchers should
do well to rule NOSS out as an explanation before leaping to conclusions.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000115/ts/yk_arms_1.html
: What's your fave "triangle UFO" sighting? D'ya prefer triangles, squares,
penta/sexa/septa/octa/gons, higher-order geometries? Do some UFOs present
non-Euclidian geometries? Are the highest-order manifestations even visible
to human eyes, comprehensible to human consciousness, knowable by primates?
# SPACEVIEWS 2000.03. NASA Considers Deorbiting Gamma Ray Observatory; Russ-
ian Space Agency Approves Privately-Funded Mir Mission; ISS Service Module
Launch Delayed Until August; Hughes Sells Satellite Biz to Boeing; New
Galileo Data Latest Evidence for Europan Ocean; NASA Sticks with 31 Jan
Shuttle Launch Date; Mars Polar Lander Search to End; Minotaur Launch
Aborted; Hubble Resumes Science Operations; Shedding Light on Black Holes;
Heading for the Lunar Surface: http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/0117/
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# Black columnist: I'm tired of that "I Have a Dream" speech. Barry Saunders
dares to dis MLK's "Dream" on this holiday. He writes: "The speech, the
greatest oration ever, now packs about the same emotional wallop as 'We
Shall Overcome,' the anachronistic theme song of the civil rights era:
none." http://www.news-observer.com/daily/2000/01/17/tri02.html
@ By incessantly citing his "dream" and heaping honors on an airbrushed
legacy, smug followers have rendered Martin Luther King meaningless:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0002/dickerson.shtml
: Is ML.King's legacy irrelevant? Is he now celebrated because it's harmless
to do so? Is M.L.K. Day part of a disinfo conspiracy to distract us from the
real issues of ethnicity, class, dominance/submission, control of the world?
# Environmentalists: Earth going bad - REPENT, THE END IS NEAR!!
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563330889-190
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# State Department security said lax - bugs, lost classified docs:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563375474-c35
# Accused spy Lee spurns govt offer - FBI are lying scum:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563302420-952
@ "HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE BUFFY WHILE DREAMING OF OVERTHROWING THE
GOVERNMENT" http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/marginal/mar5-1/buffy.htm
# The People's Republic of Lego. Is a robot dog made of Lego bricks
guarding the cubicle next door? Hundreds of thousands of adults have
discovered the Lego Mindstorms kit's addictive joys since the fall
of 1998. They're making miniature slot machines, photocopiers, and
Star Wars Droids. http://www.digitalmass.com/columns/culture/0114.html
: What's the ideal form of govt? Are all incarnate govts inherently rotten,
corrupt, vile, worthy of overthrow? Are all govts vulnerable to spies? Do
you prefer a cyber-govt, a toy republic, democratic anarchy, divine royals?
@ TOUR RUINS. A photographic tour of Mayan archaeological sites in Mexico,
Belize & Guatemala, with quotations from old explorers & modern scholars.
Includes interactive maps and a bibliography. http://www.mayaruins.com/
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# Camera Might Help Blind Man See. NEW YORK (AP) A blind man can read large
letters & navigate around big objects by using a tiny camera wired direct-
ly to his brain, the first artificial eye to provide useful vision. Next:
bionic balls: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000116/19/blind-man-camera
Robo-eyes: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000117/00/science-health-vision
Tommy, can you see me? www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33691,00.html
: Would you like to have multiple cameras wired into your brain? Would you
like to look in multiple directions, in various spectra, with radio links to
remote cameras? Should some of the video feeds be from randomized locales??
# Scientist tests wearable computer - soon it'll be implanted:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563357968-1d3
@ Please Pass The Science: http://www.cardhouse.com/berk/science.htm
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# Glaxo, SmithKline Join Hands. It's now the world's biggest drug company,
and instead of being based in the UK - where it was born - Glaxo-Smith-
Kline will be headquartered in the US, the world's largest drug market.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33689,00.html
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000117/12/science-health-products
# Merged Pharmcos OutofLuck.com - The new company formed by the merger of
Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham will find the choice domain names
already taken. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33690,00.html
# Scientists Hail UK Drug Merger As Good Match. LONDON (Reuters) It may not
have been made in heaven but scientists hailed the merger of drug giants
Glaxo Wellcome Plc. & SmithKline Beecham Monday as good a match as anyone
may expect. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000117/07/science-glaxo-reaction
: What's your favorite pharmaceutical conglomerate? Does your lire depend
on drug monopolies? Will they raise the toll for your passage down the road
of life? Can you afford to live, to die? What choices do you have? Really?
# Ambulance Delayed by Demand for Tunnel Toll. LONDON (Reuters) An
ambulance speeding a woman to hospital was held up for fifteen
minutes at a tunnel in Merseyside because the staff was made to pay
the toll, http://news.excite.com/news/r/000117/08/odd-ambulance-toll
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"We used to admire the future / As we watched it from afar
What has happened to the future? / Where is the atomic car?
The future used to be shiny & bright & hard / Like your gun
Now it's soft & squishy & icky / Has the future even begun?"
--THE FUTURE (AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE)
http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs3a.htm#tfut
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