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@ Alien Alley: http://www.alienalley.com/
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# Weird Ape Fouls Planet: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/73.html
# Americans may not be the brightest bulbs to ever walk the earth, nor
the most tasteful nor literate, says Jeremy Lott. But they *are* the
fattest: http://www.americanpartisan.com/cols/lott/012200.htm [burp]
# The End of the Brain: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/52.html
@ THE SINGULARITY - Within 25 years, we'll have the technological means
to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly thereafter, the human era will
end. http://www.alamut.com/subj/evolution/progress/vinge_singularity.html
: D'ya prefer to be fat in body, mind, soul? What's your favorite gluttony?
Will you become a blob, a hive-brain [possibly Borg], an angel, an ant? Can
these be differentiated? Do future prospects for humanity worry you? When?
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# CIA chief testifies in Deutch probe. WASHINGTON (AP) CIA Director George
Tenet sez there is no evidence that classified material improperly kept on
former director John Deutch's home computer fell into the wrong hands via
the Net. But "We cannot exclude that possibility. He was sloppy in what he
did." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563832366-94f
# Too Dumb to Snoop -- So Far. (Wired) Major record labels could be some of
the most powerful privacy violators on the Web, if they weren't so inept.
Corporate clowns: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34015,00.html
$ Purchase (discounted) brains: http://www.brains4zombies.com/
: Have you purposefully/accidentally leaked any national/personal/commercial
secrets lately? Are you sloppy, inept, preoccupied, spaced-out? Are ET alien
implants interfering with your concentration, job-performance, sex-life? Eh?
@ For people without enough time to watch cartoons, there's Reduced Anime.
http://www.asu.edu/studentprgms/orgs/them/Anime/Reduced/ Next: The Rush
Limbaugh <http://rush.digitalchainsaw.com/theatre.htm> Excellence in
Babbling Audio Theatre. Both via http://www.memepool.com/
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# You can't clone everything - Some animals may be genetically
"unclonable" - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224191
# It's a minefield - The battle over genetically modified organisms has
only just begun: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224192
@ Self-Replicating Molecules and the Meaning of Life:
http://www.aracnet.com/~atheism/crt/ghadiri.htm
: Have you cloned anything unusual lately? Are you self-replicating? Are you
copy-protected? Should all life be copy-protected? Who'd collect royalties?
# Leave the Yeti alone! Chinese government cites environmental concerns;
$60,000 award left unrewarded. The Chinese government has put an end
to hunts for the Yeti, the Asian version of the Abominable Snowman:
http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/02/01/yeti/index.html
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# German Green leader may be charged. FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Prosecutors
want to lift the legal immunity of Greens leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who
could face charges for aiding a terrorist linked to Carlos the Jackal.
Cohn-Bendit, known as Danny the Red since his days as a leader of a 1968
Paris student revolt, has immunity from prosecution as a Euro Parliament
member. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563823492-6a5
: Have you aided any terrorists lately? Are you a terrorist? What conspiracy
pays y'r bills? What real cause is your terrorism meant to distract us from?
@ THE SECRET DOCTRINES OF THE ASSASSINS:
http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/alamut/secDoctrines.html
@ The Assassins: http://alamut.com/subj/ideologies/alamut/bey_Ass.html
# Kosovo parallel gov't dissolved - thrown into vat of sulfuric acid:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563827489-601
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# Letting Silicon-Chip Implants Do the Talking. Over in England, a nutty
prof plans to hook his central nervous system to his computer. He thinks
it might improve his sex life and maybe even save mankind from becoming
slaves to machines. He's touting his scheme in an essay called "I, Robot"
the cover story in this month's Wired, a mag that can be trusted to go
gaga over any cockamamie utopian idea, as long as it involves computers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-02/01/068l-020100-idx.html
: D'ya think the writer of the above blurb is envious because he's not part
of the future? Is he exhibiting Silicon Envy? Should he see a cyber-shrink?
@ Is the Internet exactly like a living brain?
http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/exp/brain.html
# People are Morphing into Machines. I like it:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/story/13.html
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# Celts before Maoris? DARGAVILLE, N.Z. -- Pre-Maori people of Celtic origin
built an astronomical observatory resembling Stonehenge in Northland, says
author Martin Doutre in ANCIENT CELTIC NEW ZEALAND.The Waitapu observatory
at Aranga displays the same star pattern as Stonehenge and the Puketapu
"cairn" observatory at Aranga is based on the same diameter as the Arbor
Low Observatory, of Derbyshire in England. Another local historian claims
early New Zealand history is being hushed up to aid Treaty of Waitangi
claims. http://www.press.co.nz/2000/02/000111n10.htm
: How far did ancient peoples travel around the Earth? How did old Celts get
from Europe to New Zealand: canoe, alien craft, magic? If aliens didn't help
them, how did they navigate across the vast oceans? Did they hire Samoans?
@ Mayan Epigraphic Database http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med/
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# Polio vaccine may backfire. (BBC) A polio vaccine being used to eradicate
the disease may actually help to ensure the survival of the killer virus.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_628000/628427.stm
# Polio forever: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-psb020200.html
# Our friends electric - Marine microbes may soon be producing an unlimited
supply of electricity: http://newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2224181
: What's your favorite microbe? Can/should/will HIV, polio, other diseases
be genetically modified to produce power, drugs, other good stuff? Can all
microbes be exploited? Have you exploited any microbes lately? Was is fun?
# Canadian Man May Have Caught HIV Twice - and had a lot of fun:
http://britannica.com/bcom/reuters/article/0,5744,5695,00.html
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