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# Family tree site felled. (BBC) A new Website launched by the Mormon Church
to help people trace their family history crashed after being overwhelmed by
demand. On its first day, around 500 people a second were estimated to be
trying to access the site. "It's triple, quadruple what they anticipated" -
see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_352000/352050.stm
# Also: Burke's breaks taboo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_350000/350787.stm
# Mormon site online family tree - biggest online genealogical database:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559653807-a9d
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003428,00.html
# Genealogy site is a hit - 7 million times a day:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003045,00.html
: Do you care that Mormon interest in genealogy is based on their baptizing
the dead, converting them to Mormons posthumously? Would you mind being a
dead Mormon? Do you want your ancestors converted, sent to other planets?
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*** Ancient bones found. ELKO, Nev. (AP) Cheetah, camel & llama bones sealed
in a Nevada cave for tens of thousands of years are giving scientists a look
at ecosystems of the West before the last Ice Age. The unusually well pres-
erved cache from about 40,000 to 50,000 years ago includes bones from a wide
variety of creatures now extinct - from the giant short-faced bear to huge
deer and bison. "This cave is kind of a Noah's Ark collection of species."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559660328-8a0
: If extraterrestrials visited Earth, would you expect to find their bones
here? How well preserved would they be? What all is in this cave? Really?
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# The Last Supper ready to go. (BBC) The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's
The Last Supper is finally complete after more than 20 years work. Whew.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_352000/352217.stm
# Also: The Last Supper restored:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_352000/352265.stm
# Take a peek at the Last Supper:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335403.stm
@ Links: Exploring Leonardo: http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/
@ Web Museum: Leonardo da Vinci: http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/vinci/
@ Drawings of da Vinci: http://banzai.msi.umn.edu/leonardo/
: Are artistic renderings of religious entities themselves holy, magickal,
sacred? Is it blasphemy to defile them? Are they defiled by restoration?
Are all who worked on restoring the LAST SUPPER doomed to eternal torment?
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SkeptiShorts:
@ TANTRA: ANCIENT PRACTICES BRING NEW LIFE TO SEX LIFE. Many couples these
days are trying some ancient practices to rejuvenate their sex lives - the
Indian discipline of Tantra. According to Tantra, sexual satisfaction comes
from achieving total "oneness" with your partner. Now, it may not be for
everyone, but giving some priority to your sex life might not be such a bad
thing. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12606
# Israel students build candle cars. JERUSALEM (AP) - Forget natural gas,
electricity or the sun. Israeli university students found a new alternative
energy source to power their vehicles - two Sabbath candles. Holy light
power: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559668690-c3d
@ FOREVER LET US HOLD OUR BANNER HIGH. On June 5th, Disney World becomes
a park with a real theme - a queer one. Now in its ninth fabulous year,
Orlando GayDays has grown from a Magic Kingdom gathering on a single day
into a 5-day city-wide celebration! Make the GayDays event the best yet!
www.gaydays.com and www.planetout.com/travel/features/1999/04/disney.html
*** Georgia foils coup plot. TBILISI (AP) Georgian cops foiled a plot by
opponents of the president to kill him and take control of the country.
Financed abroad: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559667910-1fa
# CIA PLOTTING CYBERWAR. Clinton OKs a super-secret plan to hack the Yugo-
slav govt's technological infrastructure. Formerly super-secret, that is.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19836.html
# Virtual doctor trains patients in 3D. (BBC) A web site will help women
learn about correct self-examination techniques, using technology that could
eventually be used to teach medical students. Next step: the HoloDoc? See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_352000/352268.stm
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Mexican Government Violates Religious Rights of Indigenous Peoples:
http://www.thuntek.net/sumeria/politics/mexiviol.html
# Mexico's cardinal report questioned - church linked to drug smuggling?
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559669704-495
# Drought may be worst ever in Mexico - God stomping their butts:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559666535-5fc
# Japan kids have high accident rate - infanticide, or evolution in action?
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559669352-7a5
# Also: Accidental death rates for children worldwide:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559669353-d34
@ Pharmacology of Triazolam {Halcion} - Antipsychotic, Antimanic, Sedative,
Hypnotic: http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/triazolam.htm
# Soybean oil tested as motor oil - biodegradable, nontoxic, clean:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559633911-637
# SOLVING EARTH MAGNETIC FIELD MYSTERY - Polar reversal may be under way:
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/magneticfield990521.html
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"It was an obscure, an obfuscating night, a night for obstreperous
obloquies, thought Occam, as he applied his razor to the pulchritudinous
pomme, which Adam had alotted to the lot; and he directed those obnoxious
obloquies to the source of his eruptive spleen, Mr. Motley Cruz... applying
his razor wit venomous vengeance all the while." --Dr. Marlene Caroselli
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