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# Programmer Reaches His Xanadu. 30-years in development: the source code
for Xanadu, an ambitious attempt to build a multi-dimensional hypertext
system that in many ways parallels the Web, has been released by Internet
visionary and enigma Ted Nelson. And not a moment too soon:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21430.html
: What's the difference between a clear vision and a direct path? Have you
ever built a Dream Machine? What's your place in the cyberunderworld? Why?
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@ Tele-garden Cultivates Cooperation. You can control all kindsa appliances,
cameras, radio scanners, and robots remotely via the Internet. The Ars
Electronica Center has set up a cyber garden equipped with a robot camera
that you control with a click. Become a member for free, and you'll have
the privilege of being able to water, seed, and care for the garden via
other remotely controlled robots. The garden is divided into hundreds of
sectors, and you can guide the camera and the watering/seeding robot to
any of them. D'ya have a silicon thumb? http://telegarden.aec.at/
: Do you prefer real or virtual gardens? Are virtual pesticides hazardous?
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$ Aryan Graphics Factory We supply graphics designs, logos and slogans for
White Nationalists, White Pride, NS, Patriots, Militia, and Klansmen world
wide FREE OF CHARGE (as long as the project furthers the victory over the
Jewish & Anti-White enemies.) The Jews have voted this site "THE WORLD'S
MOST ANTI-JEWISH SOFTWARE SITE": http://www.whitepower88.com/jew-rats"
: Does hate soften/harden the brain? Is hatred implanted by demons, deities,
aliens, mind-controllers? Do you hate? Are you an evolutionary throwback??
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@ Wilhelm Reich's Contact With Space. On 1954, Wilhelm Reich "happened
accidentally to observe two bright yellow-orange lights moving in front
of a mountain range toward a lake." The encounter was the opening salvo of
a "war" with UFOs that would occupy the final phases of Reich's troubled
medical and scientific career. http://www.space.com/area51/reich_816.html
: Was Reich persecuted, assassinated, brilliant, insane, misled, tricked, on
fire, sexy, abducted, implanted, devious, manipulative? How can you tell??
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MORE REACTION TO KANSAS DECISION ON EVOLUTION TEACHING. (ScienceWeek) What
is sometimes not emphasized enough in discussions of the conflict between
science and creationism is that the logical foundations of these two ways of
viewing the world are quite different. Now, in an unsigned editorial, one of
the leading science journals (_Nature_) discusses the difference between
science and dogma, suggesting that scientists and science teachers can draw
useful lessons from the efforts in Kansas to expel Charles Darwin from the
state's schools. The editorial states: "In removing the teaching of
evolution, as well as aspects of cosmology, from its curriculum guidance for
school students, the Kansas Board of Education has done no favors to the
schoolchildren of Kansas or to the national and international reputation of
their state." Further: "If more children were taught science as a means of
interrogating nature, rather than as a toolbox of rules, the 'debate'
between creationism and Darwinism would come to be seen in a clearer light.
Darwin's theory will continue to be attacked and will develop on the
strength of new information established by geneticists, paleontologists and
others. The idea of divine creation is unlikely to benefit from such further
investigation because it is not scientific theory, but a dogma." (NAT)
: Can dogma be rational? Can rationality be dogmatic? Can cretinists evolve?
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PRIVACY NEWS
# DOJ Says "Let us enter your homes and disable encryption!". Trust us:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/daily/aug99/encryption20.htm
# Online Ads Track More Than You Know - your every move goes into their
files: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0%2C4%2C40728%2C00.html?sas.mail
# Ecommerce? Sorry, You Forgot the Trust. Lack of trust is the main obstacle
to mass acceptance of ecommerce. A privacy policy alone ain't enough.
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0,1087,4_183221,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21319.html
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/990817/ny-jupiter#
# Levi's: Jeans or Genes??? At its new flagship store set to open shortly in
San Francisco, Levi's will be using biometrics to profile users. Updated
profiles will be sent each day to the Levi's data warehouse, where data
mining programs get to work, creating personalized direct mail campaigns.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21268.html
: Do you have any privacy left? Do you willingly sell it, cheap? Since ETs
already read your mind, does it matter if govt/business spy on you? Why not?
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SkeptiLinks:
# The self-destructing e-mail. (BBC) A new program can send e-mail messages
which self-destruct after a set time. But do they sizzle and smoke?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_430000/430084.stm
# ORB SIGHTINGS: http://caus.org/fs082499.htm
@ Military Monitoring & Manipulation: http://caus.org/mc082499.htm
@ Viewing Terra & Luna from Space: http://caus.org/wwindex.html
@ 13 Satanic Bloodlines: http://islandnet.com/~persewen/bloodline_index.htm
@ Skeptical Information About UFOs: http://members.aol.com/TPrinty/UFO.html
# Brain drug could halt Alzheimer's. (BBC) A revolutionary drug could stop
the self-destruct mechanism that eats away brains of Alzheimer's patients.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_430000/430289.stm
# Sturdy digital bugs capture Microsoft's attention - logical lab rats:
http://cnn.com:80/TECH/computing/9908/17/bio.compute/index.html
# Bin Laden's Nuclear Weapons - ex-USSR Warheads Fuel Portable Terrorist
Nuke Bombs: http://islamicsupremecouncil.org/ISCANews/binladennukes.htm
# Alabama Woman Cop Fired For Refusing To Wear Pants. MOBILE, Ala. (Reuters)
An Alabama police officer who refused to wear trousers on the job because
she felt the requirement violated her religious beliefs has been fired.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990825/16/news-rights-skirt
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