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# New Luminescent Films May Be A Key To Photonic Computers. Materials
chemists at the University of Toronto have created a new kind of silicon
film that could lead to entirely photonic computer and telecommunications
systems. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990628171733.htm
# V-CHIP RATED PS (POLITICAL SOP). Washington is pushing a gizmo aiming
to save kids from junk TV. But consumers don't grok it and don't want
it. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20535.html
: Should you implant photonic V-chips into kids people's eyeballs so they
won't see sex, violence, pollution, intolerance, bad hair, alien overlords?
Do some people already have such implants? What can't you see? Am I blind?
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# WANT A DAUGHTER? MARRY A MINER. A report from Australia says that a man's
occupation might determine whether he fathers a girl or a boy. The resear-
chers say that miners, mechanics and farmers are more likely to sire girls
because they are more likely to have defective sperm. Call me Abby Normal:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13801
# FEWER TEENS CONFIDENT THEY'LL FIND LIFELONG MATE. Marriage has weakened as
an institution in the US, with fewer people saying "I do" than at any time
in the nation's history. And fewer people who tie the knot report being
"very happy" in their marriages. Teens 'scared and pessimistic' - see
http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/02/PM-MarriageStudy.ap/index.html
: What are your prospects for having a defective marriage, defective sperm/
ova, defective children? Will aliens want to hybridize with you if you're
defective? Do ETs cause the defects? Would you rather marry a human or ET?
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SkeptiY2K:
"Prepare yourself and three of your friends for what threatens to be the
scourge of our achievements ... the millennium bug" -- Nelson Mandela
www.globalactionplan.org -- sustainability plan under consideration by
city of Portland, Oregon for helping communities survive and thrive
www.utne.com/y2k -- Utne Reader's Y2K Citizen's Action Guide
www.co-intelligence.org -- Awakening: the upside of Y2K
www.sunship.com -- Y2K Wake Up (excellent wall poster of
problems and transformative potentials)
www.cassandraproject.org -- individual & community preparedness,
public health concerns, links to Y2K citizen action groups
www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/y2k.html -- store food, water, cash (but
only for a week of disruptions)
www.tmn.com/y2k -- scenarios, psychology (very progressive & visionary)
www.nwc.navy.mil/dsd/y2ksited/y2ksite.htm -- US Naval War College
contemplates Y2K scenarios
www.fema.gov/nwz99/99001.htm -- feds want everyone to prepare
www.ciao.gov -- Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
(feds have a sense of humor -- CIAO "goodbye")
www.ncs.gov -- U.S. National Communications System - learn about power grid
& military emergency communications
http://cr-iiacfs1.army.mil/army-y2k/y2kelectric90224/tsld001.htm
Army is concerned about possible several week power failure
http://cr-iiacfs1.army.mil/army-y2k/depsecdef_dod_civil_support.htm
MILITARY PLANNING EMERGENCY Y2K FOOD DISTRIBUTION IN THE US!!!
www.fas.org/2000/y2k/analysis.htm -- Federation of American Scientists -
The Year 2000 Problem and the Danger of Accidental Nuclear War
www.basicint.org -- The Bug in the Bomb: The Impact of the Year 2000
Problem on Nuclear Weapons
www.kiyoinc.com/current.html -- Cory Hamasaki's Y2K weather reports
(technical expertise, sarcastic, not for the faint-hearted)
Y2K and environmentalism www.y2ktimebomb.com/Tip/Lord/lord9836.htm
www.yardeni.com -- strategic analysis from Wall Street - See "Year 2000
Energy Crisis" (oil company problems)
www.csis.org/html/y2kw6.html (middle east oil & Y2K)
www.carlaemery.com/Y2K.htm -- cities need to store extra food
http://y2k.ecovillage.org -- The Y2K Survival Guide and Cookbook
www.euy2k.com -- learn about electric utility problems (the duration
of power failures is probably the single most important factor in
the severity of Y2K, apart from terrorist attacks, martial law and
accidental nuclear war)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roleigh_martin --
utilities, banks, and more
www.nirs.org -- nuclear information and resource service -
petitions to nuclear regulatory commission -- very important!!!
www.dieoff.org -- "brain food" about the end of the petroleum age
www.igc.org/icc370/y2k.htm -- "Y2KO" environmental impacts, practical
suggestions for mitigating "01-01-00" and envisioning a sustainable
society during the recovery on the other side of the century roll-over
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