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# GEEKS IN TENTS = CHAOS. Veteran hackers at Chaos Communication Camp try to
convince youngsters that cracking ain't sexy. Encryption-for-all looms.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21174.html
# CHAOS AROUND THE CAMPFIRE. Hackers embrace new sport: lock-picking. Also:
One hacker repents; Another pulls latrine duty; Space waffles are campfire
fare. http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21176.html
: Do you prefer to crack hardware or software? Why? What have you penetrated
lately? Are there any secrets left? Are there any safe places? Where? How?
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# ARE WE FROM MARS? Science fiction's most dire predictions - that beings
from another planet might take over Earth - may have already come true.
It just may be that the invasion and colonization of Earth by Martian life
forms has already happened. According to world-renowned British physicist
Paul Davies, it is entirely plausible that all life on our planet has its
origins on Mars. "Not only is it possible, but I think there's a good case
to be made that we are," he said. He wiggled his antennae mischievously
and blinked. http://edmontonjournal.com/news/stories/990807/2697447.html
: What planet are you from? When are you going back? Who are you taking with
you? Are they going willingly? Are you? Can I go along? Must I? Do you care?
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# A TREKKIE'S DREAM. Actors, Klingons, and the occasional Orion slave girl
mingle amid merchandise & memorabilia at the annual Star Trek convention.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/business/story/21167.html
# THE FINAL SALE FRONTIER. Trekkies enjoy the stars and the scene at the
annual Star Trek con. But the marketing types make out like bandits.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21168.html
: Has STAR TREK successfully prepared humanity for aliens, interstellar fed-
erations, interspecies sex, abandonment of money, forced PC, embedded chips?
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# Museum store pulls a-bomb earrings. KIRTLAND AFB, NM(AP) Souvenir earrings
with tiny silver replicas of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan will no
longer be sold at the National Atomic Museum. Friday's decision to pull
the earrings comes on the 54th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
The earrings - shaped like "Little Boy," which was dropped on Hiroshima on
Aug. 6, 1945, and "Fat Man," which was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945
- had drawn protests from Gensuikyo, an anti-nuclear group in Japan. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560608458-186
: What're your favorite nuclear/holocaust memorabilia? Do you collect death-
camp trinkets or wear weaponry jewelry? Do you sell such stuff? Is biz good?
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# Last solar eclipse of century looms. LAND'S END, England (AP) At 11:10 am.
Wednesday, the small island of Bryher in the Scilly Isles off southwestern
England will go dark as the moon slides across the sun's face. It will be
the first landfall of the millennium's last total solar eclipse, an event
that is stirring eclipse fever from Europe to South Asia. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613528-2a2
# Also: Eclipses sometimes bring fear, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613533-70c
# And: Romanians superstitious on eclipses, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613938-3a1
# THE TWO-MINUTES.COM MYSTERY. While US audiences fall prey to The Blair
Witch Project, a UK team serves up a Web site of eclipse-chasing druids.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21151.html
: Have you had enough of eclipse stories yet? Would you rather be eclipsed,
druided, bewitched, projected, preyed-on, marketed, implanted, fucked, dead?
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# Secessionists hold inaugural rally. FLAT ROCK, NC(AP) The Southern Party's
inaugural rally drew 150 supporters, many in Confederate gray, while party
leaders pledged to work for a separate Southern nation. Leaders said this
time their struggle would be a peaceful one, and short-term goals were to
win elections. "We expect the struggle for Southern independence to be a
long and tedious battle," said George Kalas of Houston, the party chair.
He condemned violent means and likened the party's efforts to independence
struggles in Quebec, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Considering themselves
the philosophical heirs to the Confederate States of America - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560619570-e66
: Is the US well rid of the South? Should the US break up into regional rep-
ublics? Would each be easy prey for international powers? Who funds the SP??
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Woman of Africa, Welcome! http://woman.iafrica.com
@ A really neat little on-line magic trick:
http://www3.mcps.k12.md.us/users/rsfay/magic/
@ It's the Empty Materialism, Stupid:
http://www.slate.com/code/BallotBox/BallotBox.asp
# Saddam says Iran plotting with U.S. & Israel to destroy Iraq:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560624665-5e1
# Taliban, Saudi deal on bin Laden surrender fell through:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560626564-9c1
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# Chautauqua's influence still felt - come together to share ideas, arts:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613321-747
# Also: Thinking not 'free' at Chautauqua, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613317-65c
# And: Subculture at work in Chautauqua, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560613314-a05
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