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@ Political Football: http://www.ocweekly.com/images/liberty.jpg
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# Canada Tries Net Sex. OSHAWA, Ontario (AP) A Canadian court will decide if
live images of erotic acts relayed via Internet in exchange for money is
prostitution. A firm offers members who pay $15/month a real-time service
for $5 a minute: customers converse by computer with a woman who performs
requested erotic acts the customer can watch on the computer screen. Not
intimate? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564295482-3f9
# PBS Marvels at the Technology of the Ancients! A TV series being shown on
PBS-TV across America this month unwittingly supports the creationist view
of Earth history! http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/4212cen_m1998.asp
: Have you tried net.sex lately? Is it a wonderful technology? Is it better
than other/older/newer technologies? Were you created/evolved/fantasized to
have sex via flesh, wire, imagination, angels/demons, scent, blow-up dolls?
@ Voice to Skull patent: http://www.bestnet.org/~raven1/v2s-kohn.htm
@ Theosophy: http://www.blavatsky.net/blavatsky/blavatsky-links.htm
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# Firm Sees Trials of Pig Organ Transplants Soon. CHICAGO (Reuters) - It's a
scenario recurring thousands of times each year: Patients lie critically
ill, waiting for a kidney, heart or liver. Minutes, days, weeks tick by
but no organ arrives in time to thwart death. There are simply not enough
organs for everyone. Two companies hope to solve this unending problem and
one, Baxter International Inc., appears ready to take the next step.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000215/sc/health_transplant_1.html
# I Sing the Body Translectric. [No guitars used.] Interview with Kathryn
Aegis, <http://home.mindspring.com/~k_aegis/> editor of The Transhumanist,
<http://www.transhuman.com/journal/index.html> co-author of the Transhum-
anism FAQ, <http://www.transhumanist.org/> & author of numerous articles
on transhumanist topics. Also, a little bit of SubGenious Slack, da-dum:
MP3: http://radio4all.net/pub/archive/mp3/0201aegis.mp3
via: http://www.changesurfer.com/eventhorizon/shows.html
: Is strict humanity obsolete, irrelevant? Would you like to be transhuman,
chimerical, cyborged, pure spirit/mind/energy? Have you interbred with any
animals/aliens/deities/demons/me lately? Are the results encouraging? How?
@Evolution/Ethics: http://baylor.edu/~BIC/WCIII/Essays/Huxley_Evolution.html
@ Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Expression of the Emotions in Man
and Animals: http://tom.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/book/lookup?num=1227
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# Chinese Want To Clone Rare Dolphin. BEIJING (AP) Chinese scientists hope
to clone an endangered dolphin whose Yangtze River habitat is increasingly
being polluted: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000216/10/china-cloning
# Company Filed 10,000 Gene Patents. (Reuters) A tiny private biotech firm
said it had filed for preliminary patents covering more than 10,000 new
genes and says it has a new approach to patenting and testing genes.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000215/18/science-genes-athersys2
: Is cloning easier than deindustrialization, environmental cleanup, habitat
protection? Who should own y'r cells, your clones, your genome/biome/psione?
Have your cerebral patterns been patented yet? Will they be soon? By whom??
# Economists have tended see nature as both a supplier of free raw
materials and as a bottomless sink for waste. It is neither:
http://www.thenation.com/issue/000228/0228greider.shtml
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# STARSHINE Returns to Cinder. (NASA) The STARSHINE satellite, designed to
study the influence of solar activity on our planet's atmosphere, will
return to Earth on February 18 or 19. As it disintegrates in the
atmosphere, the descending satellite will resemble a slow-moving meteor
or fireball. http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast16feb_1.htm
@ Invisible Pink Unicorns Exist! I.P.U's are the true masters & creators
of the universe. They existed before anything existed. They even existed
before they existed.There is no possible way for me to explain how this
is possible. We just have to be content with the knowlege that Invisible
Pink Unicorns exist, and they are beyond our ability to comprehend. Accept
& submit: http://geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bit/6458/pinkunicorns.html
: Have invisible entities destroyed any of your spacecraft/satellites/probes
lately? Have you probed any invisible entities lately? Do they respond by
becoming fireballs? Have you seen any fireballs lately? Were they unicorns?
@ The Mars Society - Colonizing Mars: http://www.marssociety.org/
@ Quantum Ravioli: http://web.mit.edu/kpatel/www/verbage/quantum.html
@ Day Of The Obscure: http://www.metatronics.net/doto.html
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# Cultists on Hunger Strike. BEIJING (AP) - About 140 members of the banned
Falun Gong spiritual movement have staged a hunger strike in a northeast
China prison, and at least two are already into their ninth day without
food: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000214/04/int-china-banned-sect
# U.S. May Grant Asylum for China Sect. HONG KONG (AP) - The United States
may grant asylum to members of a sect banned in mainland China if there
is proof they are being persecuted for their beliefs, a U.S. INS official
said: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000216/11/int-china-us-banned-sect
: Has your sect been banned/imprisoned/purged lately? Should/can/will you
seek asylum in a far land? Will you infect the inhabitants of that land with
your cultic beliefs? Should you be uprooted in all lands? Will you need a
land of your own for safety? Will you need to drive all others from it??
# Pope adds Jericho to Holy Land tour - demolish walls with kazoo:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564277459-439
# Vatican joins Palestinians, condemns Israeli hold on Jerusalem:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564297460-b44
# Romanian Orthodox patriarch 'sorry' for kowtowing to Communism:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564280220-96c
# New archbishop of Westminster named - Anglo-Papist conspiracy:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564273730-da1
# Cypriot Bishop to Be Tried for $3.7 Million Fraud - denies guilt:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000216/09/odd-bishop
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