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# Peak viewing for ghouls. (BBC) Hundreds of people are visiting a Website
in the hope of spotting mysterious lights over the so-called haunted valley
of Derbyshire's Peak District (UK). Some are looking for UFOs. But many
others are looking for evidence of what they believe may be a new scientific
phenomenon - lights generated by pressure on the rocks in the Earth. See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_323000/323866.stm
# Also: Museum gives up the ghost - security cameras caught apparition:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_270000/270457.stm
@ Links: Haunted Valley: http://www.hauntedvalley.com/
@ Int'l Ghost Hunters' Society: http://www.ghostweb.com/
: Would you rather see ghosts, UFOs, geoluminesence, kobolds, Things That
Go Bump In The Night, naked UFOlogists, Reptilioids, Nessie, Bigfoot or me?
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> JAPANESE HOMES FOR THE MILLENNIUM: LITTLE SPACE, BUT LOTS OF BRAINS. Ever
get up in the morning and wonder, "What's my blood sugar?" Or find yourself
in the dairy aisle, not sure if you're out of milk? Are you just plain tired
of turning lights on & off? Not to worry: the Japanese Smart House is coming
soon. Electronics firms are hard at work on new homes strung wall-to-wall
with fiber optics connecting rooms to each other and to the vast world
outside: the Net, cable TV, hospitals and travel agents. The walls have
eyes: www.cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9904/27/japan.brainyhomes.ap/index.html
and: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559334454-139
: Would you like to be an appendage of a WebHouse? Would you rather have a
Smart House, a Smart Tent, a Smart RV, a Smart Castle, a Smart Presidential
Palace, a Smart Barracks, a Smart Garage, a Smart Outhouse, a Smart Shanty?
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*** Minister blesses same-sex marriage. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - A United
Methodist minister dismissed from one church for blessing the union of two
women has officiated at another same-sex ceremony and risks being defrocked.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559336990-1ed
: Have you ever officiated at a same-sex event? Was it fun? Does your belief
system establish gender roles? Do the voices in your head issue sex rules?
Do gender rules/roles undermine or strengthen society, or have no effect? Do
your deities have sexual preferences? Do they have tattoos, noserings, hair?
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# Imaging Satellite Lost in Space: Ikonos, where are you? Denver-based Space
Imaging had lauded the Ikonos 1 as the first satellite to provide
high-reso-lution pix for sale to a range of industries, from farming to
construction. But hours after its debut launch, operators said they had
failed to receive signals from the orbiter. Or, as Space Imaging put it,
Iknonos had "experi-enced an anomaly."
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/19372.html
# Also: Satellite Zooming In: www.wired.com/news/technology/story/19352.html
# Space Imaging: www.spaceimaging.com/newsroom/releases/1999/ikonos99_4.htm
: Who took out Ikonos: CIA, KGB, Serbia, Reptilioids, NRA, GE, GM, me? Are
private spy satellites a privacy threat, the wave of the future, obscene?
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# Real-life "Truman Show". In February, six Oberlin College students bought
a Canon digital video camera, four Pentium III servers and a fractional T1
line and transformed their lives into the first-ever 24/7 streaming audio
and video show, hoping to hit pay dirt by becoming the Web's answer to "The
Truman Show." After all, if Tiger Woods gets paid to wear a Nike cap, why
shouldn't the girl studying economics on the couch? Looking for sponsors -
see http://www.salon1999.com/tech/log/1999/04/27/truman/index.html
: Would you pay to watch clothed students? Would people pay to watch you? Do
you prefer being monitored by individuals, corporations, govt's, ETs, or me?
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Short Takes:
# Wine Growers Sue Weatherman Over Hail Storm. TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) -
A group of French wine growers plans to sue the national weather service for
failing to predict violent hail storms that devastated thousands of hectares
of vines. Go get'em: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990428/07/odd-france-hail
# 'What Am I Bid for These Geeks?' Ebay adds another oddity to its online
auction inventory. Now you can bid on a complete team of network engineers
and administrators. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/19350.html
# Man Who Feared Water Gets Reburial. LONDON (Reuters) - A Scottish woman
won a seven-month fight to exhume her husband's body from his flooded grave
because he was terrified of water in life. Freaked by flowers and wreaths
floating above the grave: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990428/07/odd-grave
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SkeptiLinks:
@ I SHOT PRESIDENT KENNEDY FOR MK-ULTRA:
http://www.konformist.com/mkkafe/tcasey/tcasey.htm
@ HAARP-spike coincided precisely with Littleton shootings. See overlay:
http://www.cbjd.net/orbit/quakes/littmap.gif
@ Denver Int'l Airport Art Gallery - airport of the New World Order?
http://www.konformist.com/1999/dia/dia.htm
# Commercialize powerful crypto: www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990423S0015
# Inspectors find bacteria at Capitol - Congress cited for violations:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559336778-020
# Potentially lethal shipment found - radioactive metal disappeared:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559336373-51c
@ Save The World: http://www.savetheworld.com.au
@ Survival Research Laboratories: http://www.srl.org/
@ NEW EARTH COMMUNICATIONS: http://www.newearthnews.com/
@ UFO CITY - The Ultimate UFO Resource: http://www.UFOcity.com
@ Cosmic Communications Home Teleport Space:
http://members.tripod.com/%7ECosmicRose/CCC.html
@ Zodiacal Zephyr: Acrophonology: http://miva.zodiacal.com/acro.mv
@ TheY kNow wHerE yOu liVe: http://www.theyknow.com
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drizzle not unlike the spray that comes from those flat, green garden hoses
that have thousands of tiny holes on one side, except that it appeared to
come from the sky rather than the ground." --Dennis McKiernan
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