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@ The Temple of the Screaming Electron: http://www.totse.com/
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# STOCK DROP: Astrologist sees more market woes. Appliance repairman Robert
Hitt's side job is financial astrology and the stars are telling him the
market will decline until May 5, 2000 -- a day when the solar system will
serve up "the most significant alignment of planets that we'll see in our
lifetime. I'm expecting a major low in the market." Better believe him:
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Oct/15/business/STARMAN15.htm
: Do you trade astrologically? Have you correlated past market performance
with planetary motions? Do voices in your head handle your accounts? Well?
# MUFON news: NASA FILM SHOWS UFOs - multiple UFO sightings - CANADA CROP
CIRCLES - likely blimps - POSSIBLE NEW PLANET FOUND IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM -
SPACE JUNK RE-ENTRY PREDICTIONS - FALUN GONG BUSTS CONTINUE - UNDERGROUND
VAULTS AT WRIGHT PATTERSON: http://sightings.com/ufo5/ufoshow.htm
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# Secrets of super zip revealed. Researchers have created the first atomic-
resolution image of a donut-shaped enzyme that unwinds the DNA double
helix. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_475000/475085.stm
@ Links - Cell: http://www.cell.com/
@ Ellenberger Group: http://sbweb.med.harvard.edu/~tome/
: Have you unwound any DNA lately? Has anyone unwound your DNA? Did they put
it back right? Do you unzip a great deal? Have you ever been caught at it??
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# Positive thinking 'cuts no ice with cancer'. (BBC) Neither stressful
events, nor a woman's 'fighting spirit' have any impact on the likeli-
hood of developing or dying from breast cancer, say scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_475000/475128.stm
: Have you caused/cured any diseases with sheer willpower lately? Do you
prefer willpower to drugs, surgery, prevention? Are you still alive? Why??
@ Ethno-Mycology: http://www.sirius.com/~holy/mushroom.html
@ Space transportation: http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Space/
@ The economics of science fiction: http://hanson.berkeley.edu/econofsf.html
@ Computational chemistry: http://nano.xerox.com/nanotech/compChemLinks.html
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# Humans have downward-pointing nostrils, a dive reflex, skin-bonded
subcutaneous fat, and a number of other peculiar traits that we share
with aquatic mammals but do not share with other primates. The Aquatic
Ape Theory http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat_leaflet.html attempts
to give an evolutionary explanation of these and other traits. Needless
to say, it's http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5168/aat.html controversial.
: Are you an aquatic ape? Can you swim? Did you evolve? Are you a primate?
How do you know? Were you planted here? Do you float? Are you bloated? Why?
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# Data raiders prove power grids, infrastructure vulnerable. WASHINGTON. The
ground rules were simple: Use laptop computers purchased at local stores &
software downloaded off the Net. Target only unclassified govt computer
systems. And see how far you can get. "Red Team" hackers hit the jackpot.
In less than 3 months, a team of about 30 NSA geeks secretly penetrated
computers that control electrical grids in Los Angeles, Washington & other
major cities. They broke into networks that direct 911 emergency-response
systems. They even got access to the Pentagon's National Military Command
Center, the heart of America's war-fighting operation. If they can do it,
so can I: http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/cyberwar10.htm
@ Hacker Alert: http://ojr.usc.edu/content/sectionfront.cfm?request=10
: What national/regional/local infrastructures would you like to disable?
Have you practiced? Where? Have you caused any disruptions/deaths yet? Who?
@ Multics was developed in the mid-1960s in the programming language
PL/1. Unix folklore has it that Unix began as a miniature mutant
offshoot of Multics. http://www.multicians.org/multics.html
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# Pakistani coup spreads to the Internet. (BBC) Hackers have taken over
one of the official websites of the Pakistan Government while other
official sites have disappeared from the Internet. Cyberwar spreads:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_473000/473991.stm
# THE UNABOMBER: Ted Kaczynski Talks -- From his "Supermax" jail, Kaczynski
talks about his upcoming book, relations with his brother and his future:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,32213,00.html
: What is the most efficient way to apply force in a wired world. Would you
rather hack, bomb, shoot, burn, infect; or just threaten one of the above??
@ BIOWAR Website: http://www.sonic.net/~west/biowar.htm
@ BIOWAR Archive: http://www.sonic.net/~west/digest.htm
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# We have no books by Heraclitus http://forthnet.gr/presocratics/heracln.htm
nor by Democritus even though the latter's contemporaries and successors
www.windows.umich.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/people/ancient_epoch/democritus.html
noted him www.utm.edu/research/iep/d/democrit.htm as a prolific author.
All we know of Aristotle www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.html are
the lecture notes scribbled down by his students; most of what he himself
carefully prepared for publication have been destroyed. And don't forget
all the lost http://temple.edu/classics/dramadir.html plays. Many people
assume the last copies of these works were lost in the famous burning of
the http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/Museum.html
Library of Alexandria in the time of Cleopatra; but in fact, most of the
last copies were probably lost in a disaster both more recent and more
obscure, the burning of the city of Constantinople in the course of the
Fourth Crusade http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/villehardouin.html in
the early thirteenth century. http://memepool.com/Author/arkuat/
: What's your favorite lost text? Has your belief system burnt many texts?
Do you burn texts for recreation? Have you burnt any good books lately? Eh?
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"As the flames lapped at the logs like his loyal labrador Laddie licking
his loins, Desmond lifted the luscious licorice-laced liqueur to his lips,
laughed out loud while his libido longed for the licentious librarian,
Lucille, lamented over his life - a struggle between love and lust - and
then looked lackadaisically at Laddie,who was lifting his leg to let loose
a liberal line of lucent lemon liquid on the divan." --James E. Williams
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