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# Beware swarms of 'smart dust'. CLEANLINESS freaks have a new rationale for
their pathological hatred of dust: it could soon be spying on them. Packed
full of sensors, lasers and communications transceivers, motes of "smart
dust" are being designed to communicate with one another. They could be
used for a range of applications from weather monitoring to spying. Make
a clean sweep of it: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ns-bso082499.html
: Are you surrounded by dust that's smarter than you? Are you dumber than
dirt? Do you feel obsolete, relinquished to the dustbin of history? Already?
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# Nanobots And Aerobots To Explore The Planets. A swarm of cunning robots -
some only several inches wide - soon may swarm, float, walk, swim, fly,
creep, burrow and hop across the alien worlds of the solar system.
Smaller, cheaper, faster: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/nano.htm
: Would you like to explore the Solar system? Are you a robot? D'ya want to
have your consciousness implanted into an explorer 'bot? Will you return??
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# Cleric: Rushdie wasn't to be killed. DUBAI, U.A.E.(AP) - Iran's Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini did not really intend to have Salman Rushdie killed when
he condemned the British author to death for blaspheming Islam, a moderate
Iranian cleric said. Khomeini just wanted to publicize the case and
discourage others from insulting Islam. A slap on the wrist - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560881535-755
: Do you take death threats and bounties seriously? Have you ever issued or
received a death threat? Have you ever been chased by or led stone-throwing
mobs? When/why? [Note: I've had two such mobs chase me - it's not much fun.]
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# China: Farmers formed secret army. BEIJING (AP) Authorities say they have
broken up a secret, private army set up by farmers in southwestern China,
arresting as many as 20 members and charging 10 with subversion. Dozens
had joined the unauthorized militia in the two years since farmer Yang
Jiahua began recruiting in the hilly countryside near Chongqing city.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560879855-73e
What's your favorite militia? Would you rather join/run a militia in China,
Bosnia, Angola, Texas? Are you subversive? Will you kill or be killed soon?
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# New ancient ape skeleton studied. WASHINGTON (AP) A baboon-sized ape that
lived in East Africa about 15 million years ago may have been among the
first primates to leave the treetops and live on the ground, a key step
in the evolutionary path that theoretically led eventually to humans.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560882061-41a
: Did you evolve theoretically or really? Are you still evolving, or static?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Canada's Military Secrets Posted On Web:
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-08-26-0019.html
# Hackers Offered $50,000 To Crack E-Mail:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990826/00/net-hacking-email?printstory=1
# Yahoo Calendar: What About User Privacy?
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/238/business/A_wide_open_calendar+.shtml
# Programmers get glimpse of software project - geriatric vaporware:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560870251-fde
# Gates said 'Pirates' film got it wrong - Satanic link omitted:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560870904-428
# Update on status (nonstatus?) of WebGov: http://idg.net/go.cgi?id=153726
@ World Biographical Index: online index of over 2 million short biographies
for people who lived in North & South America, Western & Central Europe,
Australia, Oceania, and New Zealand. You can search by name, occupation,
year of birth, year of death, and year cited. You can also specify
specific archives to search. http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/
# Road to enlightenment - Dalai Lama purifies Indiana:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560879714-93d
# Calcuttans honor Mother Teresa - sacred cows poop on her grave:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560880527-ceb
# IGNORANCE IS BLISS - Chemical Industry Keeps You in the Dark:
www.publicampaign.org/ouch.html#chemical
@ HateWatch News - http://hatewatch.org
# Jury not able to agree beating was hate crime:
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=082699&ID=s627348&cat=
# Reservation beating probed as hate crime:
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/news/docs/026851.htm
# Content of racist/antigay fliers was legal, lawyers say:
http://www.dispatch.com/pan/news/trialxnws.html
# Hate-crime suspects were set for trouble:
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local01_19990825.html
# KKK Anti-Gay Recruitment in Maryland:
http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?1999/08/25/5
@ The Brave New World Of Arthur C. Clarke. Man lands on Mars, the elderly
retire to the moon, humans are cloned. Welcome to the brave new world!
Have your tickets & passports ready. http://sightings.com/ufo4/clarke.htm
# FBI admits using pyrotechnic devices in Waco siege:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990825/14/crime-davidians
# DPS official says Army force present at Waco siege:
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/0826tsw1davidians.htm
# Gay Arizona lawmaker investigated - Army Reservist:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560881780-5bb
# Bared breasts launch Massachusetts scandal - woo woo:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560877735-661
# Clinton rides horses, plays golf - horses are very nervous:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560881377-166
# Pope John Paul II to visit India - sacred cows are nervous:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560879906-f95
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