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@ Da Vinci IS Mona Lisa! http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/data/link2.htm
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# Bermuda Triangle of Space: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/spacetriangle.html
# "Castles in the Air" - Are mirages a good explanation for UFO sightings?
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm
# "Project Twinkle" - The govt studies green fireballs over New Mexico:
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/weekly/aa080597.htm
: What's your favorite explanation for UFOs? Are you in cahoots with ETs? Do
they feed you disinformative explanations for you to promulgate? How deeply
involved are you in UFO coverups? Are you well-paid? D'ya enjoy ET sex? How?
@ "A Guide to UFOs" - An ever-expanding handbook for the novice ufologist:
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blguidea.htm
# "Current UFO News" - Updated and with UFO news items of the week!
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blnews.htm
# "Current SETI@home, Space, and Astronomy News"
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blseti.htm
: How much news about UFOs can you tolerate? Would you rather hear about UFO
sightings, watch TV sports, masturbate, eat pizza, canoe across a cool lake,
ride the wild surf, carve gods from balsa wood, paint my rafters, sleep???
@ UFO Timeline: UFO events of the 20th Century!
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/bltime.htm
@ "UFO Poll" - New poll: When will we make contact with ET intelligence?
http://ufos.about.com/culture/ufos/library/bldata/blpolls.htm
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# First artificial DNA can create new forms of life. SCIENTISTS have made
the world's first synthetic DNA - the molecules that form the blueprint
for life. The breakthrough means that the first artificial organisms could
be "born" within two years and raises the prospect of humans redesigning
whole species, including themselves. Back to the drawing board, mates.
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/01/23/stinwenws01049.html?999
# Advanced Life Rare in Universe: http://persweb.direct.ca/psa/liferare.html
# Opening cupboards in Pandora's pantry - Govt ignores warnings about
GM food: http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/JF00/pandora.html
@ The Holy War: http://www.bibleclass.com/lib/holywar.htm
: What kinds of foods/lifeforms/humans would you like to engineer? How will
you be redesigned if you're to compete with everyone else who gets rebuilt?
Will you just give up, die? Do you have any evolutionary potential? Where?
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# US threatens GM deal. (BBC) The United States is one of six countries
blocking a protocol on the import & export of genetically-modified foods.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_611000/611848.stm
# Also - Brakes put on GM industry:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_506000/506028.stm
# Plant losses threaten world's food supplies:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449096.stm
# Charity warns against GM seeds:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_439000/439289.stm
: Are gene.mod foods superior, satanic, necessary, invidious, inevitable? Do
you prefer traditional foods? Are you fat, fit, faddish, fed, fatal, phony?
@ Of Agriculture: www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1650cowley-agriculture.html
@ Germs: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1880pasteur-germ.html
@ Steam Engine Library: http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/
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# Mormons are targets of a Baptist crusade - Conversion effort includes
Witnesses. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Two Southern Baptist congregations
are preparing a crusade to teach their members how to convert "cult"
members, including Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. The Cult Awareness
Impact Crusade: "Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are not Christians."
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150008315,00.html?
: Is anybody Xian who calls themselves Xian, or do they have to agree with
your Xian sect? Do you wage war on heretics? Are there lots of heretics out
there? Is it a challenge? Can you convert heretics? Can they convert you??
# The new believers - Russia's war on God is over, but intolerance persists:
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,125278,00.html
# Vigil held for slain missionary - Father, two sons burnt alive in jeep by
Hindu radical: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/22/update/news2.html
@ The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of
Women: http://www.swrb.ab.ca/newslett/actualnls/FirBlast.htm
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SkeptiWinks:
# Laundering in Liechtenstein: Li'l EuroState great place to stash bad cash:
www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=001801733226889&pg=/et/00/1/23/wliech23.html
# Mitnick: I was manipulated; Hacker hammers prosecutors, NY Times reporter:
http://zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2425686,00.html?chkpt=zdnntop
# Immigrants on parade - 40 Indian programmers handcuffed, showcased for
INS bust: http://www.timesofindia.com/today/23home2.htm
@ THE CARING ECONOMY 11: THE LIMITS OF BIG. How 'global' is globalisation?
You get big because you're better. You don't get better because you're
big. http://www.thecaringeconomy.com/about/chapters/chapter11/index.shtml
# Cops Map Y2K Terror Plot - Telephone Data Links Algerian Suspects:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/23/y2kterror0123_01.html
# Doc-posing man talks women into self-mutilation - just slice here:
http://www.herald.com/herald/content/thu/digdocs/news/brodocs/028615.htm
# Girlfriend: Fake doc's a "misunderstood" abuse victim - poor baby:
http://www.herald.com/herald/content/fri/news/digdocs/broward/047573.htm
# Building a Supermodel - In search of a versatile virtual person. With the
power of the computer, researchers are using available raw data to refine
the crude qualitative models of yesteryear into finely tuned simulations
that can represent�and even predict�the behavior of complex biological
systems. So do me: http://www.sciencenews.org/20000122/bob2.asp
# Bigger holes in Web - Cybercrime growing harder to prosecute:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000121-nb1.shtml
# Hot under the cyber collar? Road rage on Information Superhighway:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000123/A40376-2000Jan22.html
# Online battle of the sexes - Web luring female users, men soon to
be minority: http://www.sacbee.com/ib/news/ib_news01_20000122.html
@ For non-prude geeks only: Nude Overclocking: http://nudeoc.i12.com/
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