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# MIDWEST CARNAGE - Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Wichita ripped apart:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/19483.html
@ The Uses of Sim Sidewalks - What happens when three urban scholars sit
down to play SimCity? http://www.feedmag.com/vgs/johnson.html?alert
@ Is there a relationship between video games and violence?
www.feedmag.com/cgi-bin/loop/loop.cgi?function=areaview&document=fr208.shtml
: Is there a relationship between videogames and tornadoes? Do misfiring ET
implants make people build/live in tornado/hurricane zones? Are one or more
deities responsible for storm deaths? Should {YHWH} be charged with murder?
# MUSIC, VIOLENCE, AND THE RIAA. To address issues surrounding violence in
society and music, the recording industry is sponsoring online chats between
teens and rockers. How about some chats with politicos, gurus & embezzlers?
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19464.html
: Is there a relationship between music and behavior? Do death-metal and rap
make you dope & kill? Do Sinatra songs make you drink? What makes you puke?
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# Museum displays relic of high priest who urged Jesus' killing. JERUSALEM
(AP) An ornate stone burial box believed to have contained the bones of a
high priest who plotted Jesus' arrest has been sealed shut after eager
Christian pilgrims tried to open it to get a look. Officials at the Israel
Museum revealed that they had taken the step to protect the ossuary, one
of the few artifacts linked to the story of Jesus' crucifixion. Digging
for dogmas - see http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/AP19990503_601.html
: Whose bones would you like to see? Are you motivated by curiosity, love,
hate, greed, alien implants, irresistible urges, pious regard, psychosis?
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# Peek at the Last Supper. (BBC) A glimpse of the controversial restoration
of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper following 20 years of painstaking work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335403.stm
: Which is more important, the artwork or the message? Is faith restorable?
# Koran misprint sparks Kuwaiti crisis. The Emir of Kuwait has dissolved the
nation's elected parliament after a bitter feud about a missing Koran verse.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_335000/335404.stm
: Which is more important, the word or the deed? Is faith political? Why?
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# 'Hole' in space spotted - No stars have been detected in the dark region.
(BBC) Astronomers have spotted a "hole" in space. The region of the Milky
Way they examined contains a myriad of stars, yet none can be seen over a
large, black area. Why? A cloud of gas and dust in which there are no stars.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_334000/334738.stm
# Also: Astronomers moonstruck by Hubble pictures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_324000/324983.stm
# New black holes discovered:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_318000/318884.stm
# Paranal power:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_303000/303936.stm
# Hubble spies planet 'nurseries':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_276000/276579.stm
: Who put that hole in the sky? Are aliens hiding their home sytems from us?
Have deities concealed themselves there? Has space been devoured by demons?
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SansComment:
# ART THAT MAKES A STINK. A 19-year-old artist explores art for the senses.
As if looking at art weren't bad enough, now you have to smell it, too.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/culture/story/19480.html
# Bugs eat like humans, U. Arizona entomologists say . Two researchers
have found that the dinner hour can be a trying time for bugs and humans.
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990503/university-odd-130
# SPACE STATION BACK ON TRACK. Things are looking up for the International
Space Station. The Russian Space Agency worked out its shaky financing and
will participate with NASA in the next mission on 20 May.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19482.html
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Articles on Freedom and Privacy from: http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/
Lawsuit: Does publishing commodity trading require a gov't licence?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19476.html
The Economist cover story on privacy (week of May 1-May 7):
http://www.economist.com/tfs/current_issue_tframeset.html
Mitnick's hacking cost high-tech companies at least $291.8 million:
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/BUSINESS/CUTTING/t000039748.1.html
Maria Seminerio on "handicapped accessible" Internet restrictions
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2243282,00.html
Enforcing the ban on the display of bomb-making literature and videos:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/regional/ny-gun-dealers.html
Mike Godwin reviews Etzioni's book on privacy
http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/books/1999/04/26/privacy/index.html
The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html
Law Prof.Michael Froomkin responds to article on air surveillance system:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19218.html
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the still darkened hangar shook Toddy McDonald since the aircraft's
instru-ments had confirmed he covertly commandeered a state-of-the-art
Backfire Bomber undetected from East Germany to Belgium; but it now became
humili-atingly clear to him that the cockpit he so stealthily crawled into
was nothing more than a mere flight simulator." --Frank R. Adams III
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