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$ Those Magic Soaps: http://www.drbronner.com/
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# Glimpse of Robotic Future. There are rare moments when developments in the
world of information technology (IT) come under the spotlight and the thin
line between reality and fiction becomes blurred. A new study "Morals for
Robots and Cyborgs" reads like a modern day version of Frankenstein. It
offers a rare glimpse of the potential monster man may have inadvertently
created in the quest for greater convenience and technical efficiency.
Whatever. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2000/0128/tech3.htm
# NEW ROBOT WILL MAKE WOMEN OBSOLETE BY THE YEAR 2020! HANNOVER, Germany --
A top scientist has come up with the ultimate household convenience: An
electronic housewife! The high-tech inventor has perfected a robot woman
called the FeminAll that can clean, cook and even give birth to test-tube
babies. Redundant women: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2023.html
: Have you read FRANKENSTEIN lately? Is it about science, religion/magic, or
abandonment? Did Frankenstein make men obsolete? Did BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
make women obsolete? Are you obsolete? Should you be replaced by robots/ants
/cyborgs/fuchsias/memes/blowups? When? Are your morals convenient/efficient?
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# Chinese Scientists Clone Second Goat from Adult Cells. The last one died
young: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=171847§ion=default
# Giant Sloth Reborn at Yellowstone -- first, reconstruction -- next,
cloning? http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000623/fs_sloth.html
# Demos push genetic anti-discrimination bill - "Set my chromosomes free!"
Groovy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567522379-4fa
# POOR CHILDREN MORE LIKELY TO BE OBESE - genetics, or cultural genocide?
War: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=36226&src=n40
# ARE DIFFERENT METABOLIC RATES EXPLAINED BY GENETICS? Yes, but not much:
http://www.healthcentral.com/BestDoctors/BestDoctorsFullText.cfm?ID=26134
# Genome Mappers to Make Amends. The Human Genome Project & Celera Corp. are
expected to simultaneously announce that they've each completed a map of
the human genome. Sharing the limelight could be a good thing for both
teams. Smile: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36815,00.html
: Have you cloned/engineered/attacked any entities/gangs/planets lately? Are
you discriminated against because of your genetics? Should you be? Are your
genes inferior/adequate/superior/other? Are you hungry, fat, slothful, free?
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# VBS_STAGES.A (a.k.a. Scrapworm and LifeStages) -- VBS_STAGES.A is a new
worm, which was first reported last week. Since then it has infected many
systems in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. VBS_STAGES.A
arrives in an email attachment named LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS. Once executed,
it displays a text file and then attempts to spread itself via Microsoft
Outlook, PIRCH, mIRC and mapped network drives. Infected outgoing messages
have one of the following subjects: "Funny ","Fw:Funny", "Life stages
text", "Funny text", or "Fw:Funny text" The message body always reads:
" The male and female stages of life " or
" The male and female stages of life. Bye. "
See http://www.antivirus.com/corporate/media/2000/pr061900.htm and
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_STAGES.A
: Have you consumed/regurgitated/promulgated any infected worms lately? Have
you designed any efficient cyber-attacks? Is my brain/system/network/world
being infected/controlled/obliterated at this very moment? Are you patented?
@ Intellectual property rights are very much needed, but you don't
have to be a communist to worry about fetishizing them. Or do you?
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16071,00.html
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# Scientists Finger 900 Earth-Threatening Asteroids. More than 900 asteroids
at least a kilometer in size are whizzing around space relatively close to
Earth, say researchers who have developed a new technique for mapping the
potentially hazardous space rocks. They could strike and obliterate us at
any time: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000622/sp_asteroids.html
# ETs HELPED INDIANS BEAT CUSTER. Even if Col. George Armstrong Custer had
led 10,000 troops against the Sioux in the 1876 battle at the Little Big
Horn, they still would have been massacred -- because the cavalrymen were
zapped dead in their saddles by aliens from outer space! The spacemen --
whom the Sioux looked upon as powerful gods who guided & controlled their
destiny -- also bathed each Indian in an invisible ray that made him
invincible and unable to be killed. Experts now believe it was those
protective rays that left mysterious ultraviolet "scars" in the earth
at the battle site -- scars that baffled scientists and historians for
more than a decade. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2026.html
: Are you extraterrestrial? Have you attacked any people/planets/pols/petals
lately? Do you often take sides in inter/intra-planetary disputes? How d'ya
choose sides: racism/rationality/randomness/repugnance?D'ya leave UV traces?
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# Black Leaders Blame Clinton & 'Gangsta Rap' For Sex Attacks. Two spokesmen
for an Afro-American group calling itself the New York Leadership Alliance
cited President Clinton's conduct with Monica Lewinsky,along with "gangsta
rap" music, as the root cause for last week's Central Park sex attacks on
over 50 women. Mindcontrol? http://www.sightings.com/general2/blame.htm
# BOOST YOUR SEX DRIVE BY EATING EGGS! Natural aphrodisiacs -Poached, fried,
boiled,scrambled or raw: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2025.html
# GIVE YOUR BOOBS A BOOST WITH BRA-IN-A-BOTTLE! Instant uplift - marketed
by Yves Saint Laurent: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2013.html
# THE BIRTHING EVENT and THE POLE SHIFT. Certain solar events (some having
been recently manipulated in order to alter the sun�s �natural� evolution)
will lead to the birth of a new planet from our sun on or around December
21st 2000. Expect Earth changes: http://www.ambilac.com/part_xii.html
: Would you rather give birth to humans/aliens/birds/reptiles/planet(oid)s/
mindsets/me? Is your sexuality enhanced by media/food/drugs/implants/flares?
Is your anatomy altered by chemicals/psychokinesis/surgery/eruptions/music?
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"It was a dark and stormy night, thought Muffy Veneris, a Latin major, as
she sat in the empty hallway of the college residence that had not only
housed her and her sisters, but had housed her dreams, aspirations, and
a truly marvelous collection of fluffy stuffed animals which had once
adorned her bed and shelves and the absence of which drove home to her
the simple and frightening truth uttered to her by Dr.Landers just that
morning which rang in her ears even now: 'Muffy, not only did the rabbit
die, but I think Nurse Hayes is coming down with something; Muffy, you're
a woman now!'" --Steve Kronen
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