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@ Hebrew Speech Synthesizer: http://shekel.jct.ac.il/%7Ea_hay/whss/
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# Talk to the Dead, With Government Help! OTTAWA (Reuters) The Canadian
govt is under fire for funding sex manuals and a book on communicating
with the dead. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000126/07/odd-dead
: Do you prefer to talk to living/dead/indeterminate humans/aliens/robots?
Do you converse politely? Do they? Do govt agencies provide you assistance?
@ Can an Idiot Be Psychic? http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/book-review.html
# Research Review: New Analyses Raise Doubts About Replicability of
ESP Findings: http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/lilienfeld.html
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# Fla. paper downplays slavery: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9282559
# Ex-Klansman starts group for whites. David Duke, saying Euro-Americans are
fast becoming a minority in this country and face vast discrimination, has
announced the formation of a civil-rights group for white people. Right.
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/22/international/PDUKE22.htm
@ Burning Man Grows Up - Can the nation's premier underground event survive
its own success? Maybe: http://www.reasonmag.com/0002/fe.bd.burning.html
: Do you prefer to burn effigies, black/white/red/yellow/brown/blue people,
crosses, watermelons, aliens? Is your dominant gang being vastly persecuted?
By whom? Is society a zero-sum game? Are you a winner, a loser, a referee?
Do voices in your head tell you you're persecuted? Do they make you angry??
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@ LITTLE BIG MAN. Are We As Old As We Are Tall? Is life absurd? Many people
believe so, and the reasons they give often have to do with space & time.
Compared with the vast universe we are but infinitesimal specks, they say,
and the human life span constitutes the merest blip on the cosmic time-
scale. Others fail to see how our spatiotemporal dimensions alone could
make life absurd. The fools: http://www.linguafranca.com/0002/hypo.html
: What's your place in the universe? Do you have a noticeable place in the
universe? What's the meaning of life? Is the purpose of life, to find/make
a purpose? Are you the merest blip? Do you matter anyway? To whom? Why not?
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# Psychiatrists re-consider shock therapy. (BBC) Psychiatrists re-consider
controversial electric shock therapy for patients suffering from a mental
disorder. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_619000/619450.stm
# Also - Electro-convulsive Therapy:
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_463000/463220.stm
# The impact of depression on the brain:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_348000/348509.stm
# Electrical 'cure' for depression:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_342000/342715.stm
: Are you depressed? Are you depressing? Have you depressed anyone lately?
Have you shocked anyone lately? Do you like to convulse? With whom? When?
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# TV 'Indecent Proposal' Put on Hold. BERLIN (Reuters) Plans to air a live
daytime talk show featuring a German man offering a night of sex with his
wife for one million marks ($500,000) were shelved Tuesday after a storm
of protest. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000126/07/odd-program
# Way Buff Calendar Girls: http://www.msnbc.com/news/362052.asp
# Hallway Huggers Told to Back Off. WINNIPEG(Reuters) The simple act of hug-
ging has been added to the scurrilous list of playground faux pas at a Mani-
toba elementary school. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000126/07/odd-hugging
: What's your favorite sensual solicitation? Is hugging illegitimate? Are
you? Would you sell/rent/lease your spouse? Would you have any takers? Who?
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@ Postmodernist Savant a KGB Spy. Who would have thought that the unmasking
of an abstruse theorist as a Soviet spook would close the ideological gap
between the Bush Administration and the Evil Empire? Is it possible that
the world at the beginning of the 21st century owes its ideological and
geopolitical shape to the intellectual underpinnings of the KGB? End of
history, Kamerad: http://www.feedmagazine.com/daily/dy011300_master.html
: Has y'r mentality been shaped by KGB/CIA/MI5 spies, oil cartels, corporate
clones, the Illuminati, subliminal programmers, aliens, demons/deities, me?
# Ex-spy tells of Russian threat - McCarthy-like congressional circus:
http://www.dailynewslosangeles.com/extra/today/new05.asp
# North Korea: U.S. Plotting War - reactionary hegemony over Asia:
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/25/203830
# Echelon PROOF Discovered - NSA spies on EVERYBODY, dammit!
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33891,00.html
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# Killing on his mind, but no one wants to act on teen's webpage. Somewhere,
in a home in a comfortable community a few kilometres east of Calgary, a
teenage boy hates. He hates his school and threatens to murder teachers
and students. He worships the Columbine killers. And the authorities do
nothing. http://www.canoe.com/TopStories/webthreat_jan26.html
# U.S. takes Net threats 'seriously'
http://www.canoe.com/TopStories/webthreat2_jan26.html
: Do you want to kill? Do you announce this on the Web? Do the voices in y'r
head insist that you take action? Is your implant functioning perfectly? Do
you have any connexion with the outside world? Are you taken seriously? How?
# Anti-Abortion Fugitive Now Sought in Canada - Charged With Shooting Doc:
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/25/kopp0125_01.html
@ Conventional Wisdom: Rediscovering the social norms that stand between law
and libertinism: http://www.reasonmag.com/0002/fe.jr.conventional.html
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"As children, we are encouraged to dream. But, sadly, life usually falls
short of our dreams. This leads to disappointment which is most surely
followed by despair. And when you inevitably find yourself on your knees,
weeping until you're dehydrated, blowing your nose on a dirty sock and
fumbling around under the bed for anything sharp with which you might
slash your wrists and escape this torment, this hell on earth, think
back to where your misery all began: your parents. They knew the truth
and held out on you, my friends. Remember it when it's time to find
them a nice nursing home." -- http://www.SleazyTabloid.com
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