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@ Halo: http://www.dailyradar.com/features/game_feature_page_899_1.html
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# Don't like the weather? Blame the Man on the Moon. According to new
evidence, tides may have a major effect on deep-ocean circulation, which
controls our climate. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/n/200006150002.cfm
# Earthquakes 'trigger early births' (BBC) Stress caused by being in
an earthquake could cause mothers to give birth early. All shook out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_793000/793464.stm
# 495: IT'S NOT JUST AN AREA CODE ANYMORE. During the course of playing
around with alphanumerics & other forms of number crunching, some curious
synchronicities turn up. Things that make you go, "Hmmm...." This past
week the synch involved the number 495. http://www.caus.org/cz061600.htm
: Is your life/death/prelife/afterlife controlled by planetoids, tectonics,
alphanumerics, robotics, me? Were you shaken from a nice warm womb? Was 495
involved? Do you blame the lunar cycles? What's your favorite synchronicity?
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# Man guilty of killing dog he felt was gay. OCALA, Fla. (AP) A man accused
of beating a dog to death because he thought it was gay was convicted of
animal cruelty. http://www.bergen.com/morenews/dog16200006167.htm
# AMA passes reproductive measures - bends to Vatican pressure:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567371371-57c
# Nothing illegal about group sex! Charges against swingers dropped:
http://www.herald.com/content/thu/news/broward/digdocs/036499.htm
@ I lack the words to describe <http://stormeireland.com/> Storme Ireland.
The best I find I can do is "gender-bending con man supermodel wannabe".
<http://www.westword.com/issues/2000-06-08/feature.html/page1.html> Now
see even more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/
: Have you or your dog/friends/computer/saviour bent any genders lately? Do
you bend genders often? Do you or anyone else react violently to ambiguous
gender signals? Do the voices in your head control your reactions? Quietly?
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@ "DAILY LESSON BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA" the
front of the site screams in Real Audio at the Online Hare Krishna Temple,
<http://www.harekrishnatemple.com/> at <http://supersoul.com/> Supersoul.
Besides its great name, Supersoul also has a Krishnacore section (for you
<http://www.supersoul.com/krishnacore/> punk types looking to sell cook-
books and start a band) with a message I can't personally interpret. And
what good is a religious site without an <http://www.krishnaculture.com/>
online store? Vedic Resource has art and music, Krishna Culture has sastra
and seva, for all your sastra and seva needs. If your religious thirsts
aren't sufficiently quenched, see http://memepool.com/Subject/Religion/
: What's your favorite online religion? Are you bothered by the Hare Krishna
propensities for child abuse, murder, vegetarianism/cannibalism, poster art,
commercialism? What religion would you most like to model your faith upon??
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# Linnaeus hoped to feed the poor of Sweden, so he tried to grow bananas,
coffee, and other tropical imports in frigid Uppsala. If only he'd known
about recombinant DNA: http://www.linguafranca.com/br/0004/zencey.html
# The Ultimate Secret: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150006.cfm
# Genome overhyped? No: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150005.cfm
# Genome overhyped? Yes: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/t/200006150004.cfm
# Splosh but no splash. (BBC) French researchers show how to make falling
drops of liquid stick to a surface rather than splash right off. Kinky,
eh? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792098.stm
: Have you experimented on (m)any genes/liquids/bananas/Swedes lately? Have
they responded well? Do you keep your experiments/results/ideas secret? Does
your conspiracy have many experimental secrets? D'ya splosh around secretly?
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# Mobiles to beam into new age. (BBC) Soon your mobile phone may resemble
the lapel badges worn by crewmembers on Star Trek. Beam me up, PacTel:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_792000/792577.stm
# Spam filters don't work shocks new survey - The truth always hurts - total
bans may be necessary: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11416.html
# US bids to ban spam: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11380.html
# Sony bitten by Bluetooth. (BBC) Electronics giant Sony is planning to
put Bluetooth wireless technology in almost every gadget it produces.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_791000/791297.stm
: When all devices/humans/locales are wired together into a vast inescapable
web, will spam be the worst virus? Have you been spammed by your pacemaker
lately?D'ya listen when y'r life-support system tries to sell you something?
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# Maybe prayer didn't stop fire, but something unexplained did. EDEN VALLEY
Colo — Not even the firefighters can explain what happened here in the
green velveteen swath they call the Eden Valley. To the 50-plus Seventh
Day Adventists who live, learn, heal and pray here, there is only one
explanation for why Satan was chased snakelike from their gardens.
Miracles on demand: http://insidedenver.com/news/0615eden2.shtml
# Pope invites homeless to lunch - pontiff devours helpless waifs:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567368507-2b3
# County tries to quell lawsuit over Ten Commandments - "not that!"
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,175011990,00.html?
: Have you participated in any miracles lately? Is every event that occurs
in the universe miraculous, determined by deities, sacred? Are homelessness,
genocide, bigotry, propaganda, disasters, all planned by greater powers? Eh?
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# ART AS COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA: Altho the cultural climate in North Korea has
become less politicized in the last few years, arts & culture are subordi-
nated to political & economic aims and are tools for facilitating a Commie
revolution. Now, state-run broadcasters are a bit more lax: they allow TV
shows with once-prohibited scenes of men & women holding hands in a public
park: http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/news/2000/06/__04/20000615_0432.htm
# ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN ART FOR 400: All you ever wanted to know about it.
http://addistribune.ethiopiaonline.net/Archives/2000/05/26-05-00/Hist.htm
# TRUE PATH TO FREEDOM FOUND IN "JOYFUL SELF-EMPTYING" - empty your pockets
today, now, NOW!! http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4026
: Is all art propaganda? Is all propaganda art? Does propaganda fulfill you?
Would you rather empty your heart/mind/purse/bladder/garage? What political/
economic/religious/sexual/artistic/athletic propaganda stirs you the most??
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fahk you everytime. Every chance they get. God bless the Militias!"
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