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@ Dilbert of the Day: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/ab.html
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# CROSS-CULTURAL ABDUCTIONS. (PNN) John E Mack has spent the last ten years
discussing the the cross-cultural abduction syndrome that seems to have
affected a large number of individuals from all walks of life. He has
found that their stories are not merely flights of fancy, because even
if the beings weren't physical entities, there are cultural connections
in the descriptions that span the ages. He has spoken with African tribes-
man, North American Indians, and a number of different cultural groups to
try and determine if, in fact, there is a common element. And time and
time again, there is. http://caus.org/pn111199.htm
: Are you alien? Are you an equal-opportunity abductor? Do you abduct regar-
dless of race, creed, color, gender? Why don't you abduct more attorneys??
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@ XML IS SATANIC. A new religion, a 1st-generation religion, starts with a
basic idea & expands it to fill the universe with visions of Beginnings &
Ends - right & wrong, righteousness & sin, good & evil, Heaven & Hell. It
may have strict standards to make sure individuals demonstrate reverent
compliance. A 2nd-gen religion shifts emphasis, since people's concerns
have changed - perhaps with new lands to conquer, less worry of sin. The
priests adjust the previous basic idea to grapple with the new situation.
But in the 2nd generation, priests must also show fidelity to the language
of the earlier age, framing their new concerns amongst the old ideas
wherever possible. Everyone is stuck with the concepts already elucidated.
SGML is a 1st-gen religion: http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/w3j/s3.nelson.html
: Are markup languages tools of devils? Do demons haunt your scripts? Are
VRML coders irretrievably damned? Are you a webmonkey? Are you damned? How?
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# The first email worm - VBS_Bubbleboy only works with Windows 95/98 & 2000.
VBS_Bubbleboy also requires Internet Explorer 5.0 & MS Outlook (or Outlook
Express). It does not work with any other email client (such as Pegasus
Mail or Eudora). http://antivirus.com/vinfo/security/sa110999.htm
# The most prevalent viruses:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/most_prevalent.htm
# Security experts scramble over BubbleBoy. (ZDnet) The new virus ushers in
a new challenge for the cyber cognoscenti to find an effective defense.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2391728,00.html
: Have you created any new forms of email worm/virus lately? Do you like to
attack MicroSoft products especially? Are they easy targets, sitting ducks?
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# Plum Island Investigation - Dangerous Territory, Indeed. Officially listed
as a Level 3 facility, I have deteremined that Plum Island is, in reality,
a Biocontainment Level 5 Facility...the only known such facility in the
U.S. This was documented at the USAHA (United States Animal Health Assn)
website. Biocontainment at Level 5 is partially-dependent upon Plum Island
being located where it is, offshore from New York City, with prevailing
winds that blow offshore. Unfortunately, the birds and winds from storms
tend to blow onshore. http://www.sightings.com/politics5/plumdanger.htm
: Have many new diseases blown ashore to NYC from Plum Island? Are you in/
near NYC? Are you infected? Who is waging biological warfare on you? Why?
# Salmon Firm Admits Link to Deadly Fish Flu Virus:
http://www.sightings.com/health3/salmonvirus_h.htm
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# Dynamics Of Earth's Core Reveal Hurricanes Under Your Feet. Once nature
finds something that works, it sticks with it. Take vortices for example:
from the nearly incomprehensible rotation of galaxies to the familiar
swirl of a hurricane right down to plodding rotational characteristics
of the Earth's molten core, spinning works. In recent years scientists
used computer models to predict that there would be cyclonic systems in
the fluid portion of Earth's core. Now researchers have confirmed the
presence of a vortex in the Northern Hemisphere. The scientists studied
the earth's magnetic field, going as far back as 1870, to make their
finding. http://space.com/science/planetearth/core_cyclones_991110.html
: Do you feel the storms within the Earth? Do you see geomagnetic thunder
and lightning, feel the gravitational winds? Are you hit by heavy hail??
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Y2K-a-Rama:
# Clinton: Y2K will not bug US. (BBC) The US should escape any major
national Year 2000 computer breakdowns in key infrastructure services,
but small businesses and local govt still have work to do. Get cracking:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_514000/514673.stm
# Y2K Don't Bug Me: http://www.wired.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32452,00.html
@ BugTown: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/millennium_bug/bugtown/
@ BugWorld http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/millennium_bug/countries/
@ Millennium Bug Info - BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/cdb/bug/
@ UK Taskforce 2000: http://www.taskforce2000.co.uk/homepage.htm
@ Year 2000 Information Centre http://www.year2000.com/
# Y2K Fix Was Patented: http://www.msnbc.com/news/333372.asp
# Y2K - Readiness Of 103 US Nuclear Power Plants Questioned:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2knukeplants_p.htm
# Y2K - Matsushita imposes Y2K curbs - prohibits employees' air travel:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562013714-46a
# Y2K - Gaps In Police And Health Readiness - Only 50% Of 911 Services Are
Compliant: http://www.sightings.com/politics5/911.htm
# Y2K - Panama May Be The Biggest Blast Of All:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/blast.htm
# Y2K - Few Fears In Russia Because Technology Is Not 'High':
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2krs.htm
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"In the world of bristle worms... the male isn't the one who faces an
irreversible sexual fate. While they are mating, the male wraps himself
around the female. She bites him, which causes him to release his sperm,
which she swallows. In a few seconds, the sperm travel through her digestive
tract to her eggs, fertilizes them, then causes the female bristle worm's
abdomen to explode, thus broadcasting the eggs into the environment."
--Howard Rheingold, INSECT EROTICA: Why Have Sex At All? in
EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND [Wm.Morrow, 1988]
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