-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991230b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No time warps were traversed to produce this bulletin. All in real-time. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Are you bitter about love? http://www.bitterslut.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Another Cylinder Seen in Florida. TAMPA - The witness was driving south on Highway 75 and saw this cylinder shaped object in very pale muted blue and green cast sky. It stood out as a huge cylindrical upright object. It app- eared as if the sky was a fabric and that this object was coming through a slit in the fabric. http://caus.org/mu123099.htm & http://filersfiles.com/ # Face to Face ET Contact on a Mountain Road: http://caus.org/pc122999.htm # Brilliant Missouri Hovering Lights: http://www.caus.org/mu122999.htm : Have you encountered any cylinders, lights or ETs lately? Did you report your encounter? Were you forced to? Does your alien implant compel truth? Is reality a fabric that is easily torn? Have you slit your reality lately? @ The Mind of the Blue Alien: http://www.caus.org/mc123099.htm @ Thoughts on abduction phenomena: http://caus.org/mc122999.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Thanks to scholars who got it wrong, we're able to booze and feast for Christmas on December 25th. Might have been mid-March. Happy Solstice! www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&pg=/et/99/12/23/ecfsci23.html # EXPERTS IN NOT KNOWING: Pretending to know is a ticket to nowhere. Knowing you don't know is a good, creative, freeing thing. Teaching the creativity in knowing you don't know: http://www.ft.com/hippocampus/q3131b2.htm : Is everything you know right, wrong, indeterminate? Is creativity better / more important than accuracy, knowledge, reality? Is reality too limiting for your creative spirit? Do you spit on reality? Does reality spit back?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Parents stunned by Pokemon toy's foul language. The Pikachu creature says his name when you touch his voice control. But Jim & Pam Beekman found that touching the circuits at a rapid rate causes the cute toy to say a phrase that includes "fuck." Says Pam, a youth specialist: "I'd like to see it pulled off the shelves, or at least have a warning posted on the box. You shouldn't have to worry about what a toy is going to say." Yes, you should: http://www.detnews.com/1999/metro/9912/29/12290106.htm : Do you check your toys for profanity? Do you curse if/when they don't? @ Want free electricity? If you are a sucker looking for an imaginary product, these guys will sell it to you. http://www.ucsofa.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Y2K-A-Rama: # Y2K Will Go On and On. Even if New Year's arrives without a hitch, global Y2K watchers won't be breathing easily. The full impact of Y2K computer glitches won't be clear until mid to late January, they say. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33345,00.html?tw=wn19991230 : Since some business programs only run at the end of a month, a quarter, or a fiscal or calendar year, will Y2K glitches at the end of January, March, June or December 2000 be the final destroyers of global commercial life?? # DOOMSDAYISM: British Museum looks at a millennium of apocalypse and art: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/apocalypse-london.html # KIRIBATI FIRST NATION TO SEE SUNRISE IN 2000 - will drown when icecaps melt: http://cnn.com/1999/ASIANOW/australasia/12/29/kiribati.millenium/ # MOST U.S. CITIES WILL PLAY IT SAFE ON 2000 - Fresno worried after theft of explosives: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/29/new.years.fears.02/index.html # Giza Pyramids Y2K Show Live On The Net! http://www.projectduat.com # FERRETING OUT: A millennial eve concert in England is saved by trained ferrets who pulled electrical cables through tunnels beneath the stage. Mush! http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_582000/582123.stm : Should we all train ferrets to rescue us from our bloated humanness? How? Will millennial festivities collapse due to a shortage of trained ferrets?? # CLINTON'S DUAL NEW YEAR'S EVE ROLE: HOST, Y2K OVERSEER - and NWO pawn: http://cnn.com/1999/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/29/whitehouse.y2k/index.html # THINK PC SECURITY FOR Y2K - rollover will see a surge in viruses and malicious hacks: http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/29/y2k.protect/ # Y2K: MORE THAN JUST A COMPUTER BUG IN SOUTHEAST ASIA - will computer chaos strike? http://cnn.com/1999/TECH/computing/12/29/y2k.confusion.ap/ # When Is The Beginning Of The Millennium? Jan 1, 2000 or, 2001? Who is correct? Who gives a rat's ass? http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/2001.htm @ If^H^Hwhen the Y2K bug doesn't fuck with your computer, you may feel let down somehow, and find yourself craving a terribly invasive, frightening desktop nightmare <http://www.absurd.org/a-periodic/wwa2/index.html>. (To experience properly make sure all the switches for your Java-nators and DHTML-ifiers are pushed firmly to the "on" position.) And if that isn't enough you can see more at: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Art/ : Will you be terribly disappointed when noting goes wrong at the rollover? Will you become homicidal, suicidal, fratricidal, ferretcidal, intertidal? # Y2K - 'I Was Wrong, It WILL Be Worse' x26.deja.com/threadmsg_if.xp?AN=565458822&CONTEXT=946339034.1942290455 # Y2K TROUBLES? TV NETWORKS HAVE BACKUP PLANS - hoping things go well. Really. http://cnn.com/1999/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/29/tv.contingencies.ap/ # Y2K - Serious Effects To Be Largely Hidden At First - FEMA On Red Alert: http://www.sightings.com/politics6/femas.htm # India: Bigger Worries than a Bug. What with the hijacking and sporadic guerrilla violence, the Y2K problem is taking a back seat in India. Besides, there are plenty of computer experts there to fix things. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33343,00.html?tw=wn19991230 : Can you ever have too many nerds, bugs, terrorists, aliens, robots, news? # Y2K - Drug Companies And Pharmacies Prescribe No Fear: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/y2knofear.htm # Y2K - Fixing The Fixes Likely To Be A Long Process: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/y2kproc.htm # Y2K - An Overlooked Possibility: http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/y2koverlook.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I'm the alien invader / burn me, burn me I'm the frog that you boiled / ever so slowly I ain't the man, I never ran Don't look around / just take me, take me" -- http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs4c.htm#take * Rev. 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