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@ The photomicroscopy of cocktails: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cocktails/
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# CAN YOU SEE THRU THIS FENG SHUI GIMMICK - EYE SHADOW? The latest gimmick
based on the Chinese philosophy of feng shui - the positioning of objects
for optimum energy flow - is eye shadow. The colors are intended to have
certain effects on your life. Which color, do you suppose, helps you avoid
scams? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17758
: Do you carefully arrange objects in/on/around your head? Are your energy
flows optimized? Have you made any mistakes? Did your head blow up? When??
@ WILL FLEAS FLEE GOOD VIBES? We've tried zapping insects with ultrasound &
it doesn't work. There is no such thing as a machine to get rid of fleas.
Ugh. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17739
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# GROUND BROKEN FOR AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM. With songs & ritual offerings of
earth, water and tobacco, Native Americans gathered to bless the start of
a US$100-mln monument to their nearly vanished culture(s). Tribal leaders
joined Smithsonian execs in a long-delayed groundbreaking for the National
Museum of the American Indian. "500 years of tragedy" - more to come:
http://cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9909/28/native.american.museum.02/index.html
: After your cultures have been destroyed, lampooned, trivialized, can they
safely be commemorated? Has your culture been stomped? Have your people been
converted to a 'mainstream' belief system? Do you drink a lot? Is hope gone?
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# GOLD PRICES DROP BACK. Gold prices dipped Wednesday as a two-day rally
on news European central banks would curtail bullion sales ran out of
steam. In early European trade, gold fell to $298.30, sharply down from
New York's close of $308.50 and its heady $327.30 overnight peak, the
metal's highest level since October 1997. Gold jumped 22 percent in
two sessions: http://cnnfn.com/1999/09/29/news/wires/gold_wg/
: Has y'r conspiracy to manipulate gold prices failed? Will you suicide now?
@ Survival Research Labs http://www.srl.org/ has the ritualized interactions
between machines robots & special effects devices that you secretly crave.
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# MS: BAD SECURITY OR BAD PRESS? Microsoft has garnered a lot of bad press
lately over security flaws in Internet Explorer, Office & Hotmail, among
other software. Security concerns with WinNT even prompted the U.S. Army
to move its hacked Web site from NT servers to WebStar servers running the
MacOS. But does this mean Microsoft software is less secure than other
software? http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/
: Have you hacked any MS warez lately? Is MS easier to crack than programs
from other sources? Are you part of a conspiracy to 'get' MS? Who pays you?
# 'VIRTUAL CLINIC' TO OPEN UP FOR - WHO ELSE? - MICROSOFT WORKERS. A firm in
Seattle will offer a "virtual clinic" to employees of Microsoft - figures,
don't it? http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17760
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% DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY AS A POST-SCIENTIFIC MODALITY
@ The Psychedelic State: http://butterfly.net/henryflynt/psychostate.html
@ Hypnosis and the Delusiveness of Normal Perception and Logic:
http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/hypnodel.html
@ Premonitory Imagery: http://www.butterfly.net/henryflynt/depthpsy.html
@ Romance As Illumination: http://butterfly.net/henryflynt/depthmodal.html
: Are you psychedelic, post-scientific, romantic, hypnotized, normal? D'ya
see all, feel all, know all, understand all? Are you connected to the void?
@ The science of binaural beats http://brain.web-us.com/thescience.htm
facilitates transcendental meditation for the average joe. no yogi required.
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# TELESCOPE FINDS 'POWER LINES' IN STELLAR REMNANT. Scientists have found
the long-sought "power lines" in the most studied object in the sky that
connect a powerful, spinning, collapsed star with the luminous gas remnant
around it. For decades, astronomers have known that the pulsing neutron
star somehow transferred its energy at a rate 100,000 times that of our
sun's radiation rate to the Crab Nebula surrounding it. The nebula, about
10 light years across, is a remnant of a stellar explosion that occurred
about 1,000 years ago. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/28/crab.nebula/
: Do you feel strange when you stand under power lines? Do you feel strange
when you stand under the Crab Nebula? Is power dangerous? Are crabs evil?
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@ ZetaTalk <http://www.zetatalk.com/> contains everything a young clone
<http://www.zetatalk.com/hybrids/h25.htm> should know about all the
various alien races, <http://www.zetatalk.com/worlds/w00.htm> as told
by the alien emissary, "Nancy." And so hyperlinked it would make Ted
Nelson <http://www.xanadu.net/> proud. Or dizzy.
: What's your favorite alien race? Do you talk about/with/at them? Do they
talk back? Do they communicate telepathically? Do they know what I thinking?
@ A tricky test. Do you know your My Little Ponies and/or Porn Stars well
enough to hold your own? http://brunching.com/toys/toy-pornorpony.html
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SkeptiLinks:
# Internet Child Sex Case Is Dropped - heavily:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-205495.html
# Maybe FreeBSD is Better Than Linux, Says FreeOS:
http://www.techsightings.com/ts_review/401.html
# Mattel Sues Barbie Porn Site - git tha'bitch:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-352330.html
# Bill Gates More Important Than Pope - of course:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990927-000022.html
# Y2K Compliant? Intel Inside? Rapture Ready? Know
your eschatology: http://www.novia.net/~todd/
$ Buy Real Military Vehicles. Because, really, the best way to get
to work in the morning is in a Russian amphibious transport assault
truck. http://brightnet.horizontel.com/mvs/index.htm
@ IBM US Patent Server: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/
@ Animals online, no fuss, no muss: http://www.howletts.co.uk/
@ A web portal for the lone gunman in your life: http://snipercountry.com/
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