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@ Fashion Crime Bingo:
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jasoncsl/fishstick/bingo.html
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# New Virus Detected; Is it from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center? With
New Virus, Experts Suspect More Died of Encephalitis. Having found they've
most likely been looking for the wrong virus, public health officials are
investigating whether as many as eight more people than previously
reported have died in New York City's mysterious encephalitis outbreak.
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/092799encephalitis.html
# New York Fatal Mosquito-Borne Illness May Be African Virus. The mosquito-
borne killer disease may not be St. Louis encephalitis, as experts have
thought, but rather a similar disease that has never been diagnosed in
the Western Hemisphere. http://sightings.com/health3/africanvirus_h.htm
: Have you bred/spread a new biowar virus lately? Do you prefer a virus that
attacks neural tissue? Are you optimizing its delivery systems? For what??
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# MASS MARKETING: Over the course of several weeks in 1963 some 900 folks in
the villages of Mbale & Kigezi, Uganda were seized en masse by a maddening
compulsion to run wildly thru the streets clutching chickens and screaming
until they fell from exhaustion. Scientists diagnosed it as mass hysteria.
: Have you ever run around clutching chickens & screaming? Were you insane,
hysterical, mind-controlled, or being initiated into a college fraternity?
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# Prion Diseases Spreading Through Grains? SANDPOINT, ID - Though "mad cow"
disease may have spread to UK cattle that ate sheep brains, the infectious
crystalline agent responsible, called a prion, did not likely originate
there. A new theory on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)
suggests the sheep became initially contaminated by eating fungal infected
grains. Deadly TSEs foreshadow a "biological apocalypse" that will make
"AIDS seem like an appetizer at a cataclysmic picnic."
http://www.sightings.com/health3/prion_h.htm
: What's your favorite prion? Have you developed/tested/spread any prions
lately? Are you working on a "mad chicken disease"? Do you control KFC??
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@ Morse Code Translator. Security is big these days - with all these expert
systems & 1024 bit crypto blahblah, one tends to be wary. Enter the one &
only Morse code translator! Use this page to translate to/from Morse Code.
You can listen to the translation too! Now when the Boss demands adherence
to special security codes, you can rest assured that your code will make
the final cut! http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/refer/morseform.html
@ Hushmail. Got the pun in the name? Here is a beta version of a new free
email facility. Two interesting features are 1024 bit encryption (far
better than other free email facilities), and the ability to attach
files to your hushmail messages. http://www.hushmail.com/
: Do you trust free security, free email, free Morse code? What email/codes
do your Reptilioid/Republican masters use? Are they free? Are "free email"
services actually run by biz or govt intel groups bent on stealing y'r data?
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Space-O-Rama:
# Cosmologists Stretch to Explain Birth of Galaxies. A model of galaxy
formation that shows bursts of star-forming activity about 10 billion
years ago is igniting debate among cosmologists about how galaxies
began. http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/starburst_990921.html
: How did your galaxy begin? How will it end? With a bang or a whimper? Why?
# The Milky Way Will Never Be the Same. Astronomers say the Milky Way - our
home galaxy - is destined to be involved in a disastrous intergalactic
collision. http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/big_banger_990921.html
: Do you love big crashes? Do you stop and gawk? What's your favorite crash?
# Star-Eating Mass Found Near Center of Milky Way. A huge X-ray hiccup
has given away a hidden black hole or neutron star, presumably as it
finished making a meal of matter from a nearby star. Yummy yummy.
http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/saggitarii_burst_990920.html
: Have you eaten any stars lately? Did you spread marmalade on them? Tasty?
# Forecast Calls for Exciting Meteor Shower. Scientists are beginning to
understand a November meteor shower called the Leonids. To know Leo is
to love Leo: http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/leonids.html
: Do you prefer meteor showers, meteor baths, meteor bubble-baths? Fizzly??
# Migrating Planets. Did the solar system always look the way it does now?
New evidence indicates that the outer planets may have migrated to their
present orbits. http://www.sciam.com/1999/0999issue/0999malhotra.html
: Do migrating planets need visas? Should illegal migrants be deported???
@ NASA NEWS. Not surprisingly, NASA runs a humungo Web site exploiting the
online medium. Science@NASA is a growing list that forwards new stories as
they are posted to the Web site. Often NASA includes downloadable audio,
visual, and animated graphics files with each new posting. (You access the
attachments from the site; they aren't clipped to the newsletter itself.)
Recent features include an interactive online tool that can tell you if
and how global warming is impacting your neighborhood, etc. Point your
aluminum umbrella toward: http://science.nasa.gov/news/subscribe.htm
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Urban Legends Reference Pages: http://www.snopes.com
@ Guide to urban legends & folklore: http://urbanlegends.about.com/
@ World History Course Online: http://killeenroos.com/wh/syllabus.htm
@ I Want The Earth Plus %5: http://sightings.com/politics4/earthplus_p.htm
# NASA Seeks "ET" Organisms In Yellowstone Hot Springs:
http://www.kalmbach.com:80/astro/news/news/0999.Yellowstone.html
# PAT BUCHANAN INSISTS CONTROVERSIAL BOOK NOT PRO-HITLER - just following
orders: http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/09/26/buchanan.GOP/
@ The Last Circle: The CIA and drug trafficking:
http://www.tdbooks.com/ebooks/lastcircle/toc.html
@ MK-ULTRA: http://www.psychops.com/mkultra_cia_docs.htm
@ HAARP'S COVERT AGENDAS - THE BIG PICTURE - Pentagon Caught in
Blatant Lie! http://www.konformist.com/1998/jquinn/haarp2a.htm
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