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@ Y2K Gals: http://www.konaka.com/alice6/dollhouse/img/wall/enamel_wall.jpg
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# Man to wire himself to Internet. SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/ -- In 1998, a
silicon chip was implanted in Kevin Warwick's arm. For 9 days following,
the cybernetics pioneer was monitored by a computer programmed to respond
to his actions via signals transmitted by his implant. Next: an implant
that will send signals between his nervous system & a computer, providing
an unprecedented window into his body. If successful, he'll place implants
in two people at the same time, hoping to transmit movement and emotion
signals from one person to the other ... via the Internet. Telepathy,
effectively: http://www.globetrax.com/globedaily/content/011800_02.html
: Do you want to be wired into a global/galaxywide network? Is that better
than drugs, sex, autonomy? Is net.telepathy the ultimate mindcontrol? Who's
funding the research? What do they get out of it? What does it cost us all?
# Italian Radical Party politician convicted for giving out free
hashish: http://www.charlotte.com/topnews/pub/hash.htm
@ WACO, MINDCONTROL, FLOURIDE, RITALIN AND PROZAC:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1195
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# New chip is fast mover. (BBC) Secretive company Transmeta come into the
open with speedy chips for mobile web browsing. It's about time:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_610000/610195.stm
# Also: Intel forges chip alliance:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_608000/608178.stm
# Pentium III bug in new chips:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_546000/546368.stm
# Fastest PC chip unveiled:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_541000/541510.stm
: Will realtime mobile browsing be enough? If your net.linkage goes buggy,
how will you die? Do deliberate chip.bugs enable control of users? By whom?
# GPS Targets Guns. (Wired) A new satellite system is tracking gunshots in
the South-central Los Angeles neighborhood, one of the toughest in the
city. L.A. police plan to test the system for the next 6 months to see if
technology can succeed where the usual methods -- notably phone calls to
911 -- have failed. http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33518,00.html
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# Ban the Web? Not Lubavitch Jews. (Wired) The Ultra-Orthodox rabbis
who banned Internet use made a lot of news a couple of weeks ago, but
another sect, the Lubavitch, want it known that they love the Web very
much. Mazel tov: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,33626,00.html
: Does your belief system promote high-speed communications, widespread lin-
kages, multimedia presentations? Will you survive as others go extinct? How?
# REPUBLICANS: PRAISE GOD AND PASS THE ELECTORATE! During a recent debate in
Iowa, the Republican presidential candidates elbowed each other aside to
invoke a higher power. http://chblue.com/2000/01/17/a/0000-0001-iowa.asp
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# Biggest Dinosaur Believed Dug Up in Argentina. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) The
bones of what may be the largest dinosaur species yet known were found by
a villager in a vulture-ridden series of canyons in Argentina's southern
Patagonia region: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000119/09/odd-dinosaur
: What's your favorite dinosaur? What's its relation to y'r Reptoid masters?
Why are modern Reptilioids so small? Have you ever had sex with a Reptoid??
# Giant found in dinosaur graveyard - Argentine villager hits paydirt:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_609000/609829.stm
# Hackers attack dinosaur auction - ruin it for everybody, the sods:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_608000/608634.stm
# Dinosaur 'lost world' discovered - pterodactyls carry off explorer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_216000/216105.stm
# Nesting in the mud - and you can avoid expensive spa/resort prices:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_216000/216284.stm
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# Male Sex Genes Evolve Faster - Need to Procreate Is Strongest Force. Sci-
entists have found new evidence supporting Darwin’s theory that the desire
to mate is the strongest driving force behind evolution. Researchers said
genes linked to mating in male monkeys and humans have evolved much faster
than other genes because of competition and pressures to find a mate.
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/geneevolution000119.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ucmc-gpt011700.html
# Ears found on butterflies: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9250952
# Modern-day butterflies 'invented' by bats - evolutionary pressure:
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/utor-mdb011700.html
: Are you highly evolved? Do you hear as well as a butterfly? Did you evolve
faster/slower than butterflies? What evolutionary pressures made you so hot?
# GLOW'N'GO. An American company has used gene technology to patent a
range of luminescent novelties, such as glowing wine. But cancer is
its real target, Glowing drink that may pinpoint cancer cells - see
www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/01/19/timfeasci01007.html?999
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# Cheerleaders Who Love Crypto. (Wired) The dry and impossibly complicated
security product is readily explained to security conference attendees
by Oakland Raiderettes, boorish couch potatoes, and Plato. RSA-RSA
Go-Go-Go! http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33756,00.html
: How do you promote security? Do you manipulate trade shows, terrorists,
spoof attacks, virus/worm assaults, media frenzy, rumor campaigns? Where?
# Preventing workplace violence in the new millennium:
http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/rpsl-ppwv011900.html
# Pentagon says it may take weeks to learn why missile interceptor
missed target (CNN) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9250812
@ Automatic Weapons: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/shivers/autoweapons.html
@ What do you get when you combine a Mazda RX-7, missile launchers, poor
photography, and too much free time? http://www.magicnet.net/~qzar/
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# Gliding into orbit. It Sounds like a recipe for frying a spacecraft to a
crisp, but scientists say orbiting space probes will one day be able to
fly into & out of a planet's atmosphere just like an aircraft -- without
burning up. Using new trajectory-planning software, the researchers say
spacecraft will dip into a planet's atmosphere, harness aerodynamic forces
to fly like an aeroplane, and then zip back into space, having steered
into a new orbital trajectory. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9251077
: Have you plotted your trajectory carefully? Do you have any margin for
error? Could the slightest meteorological quirk reduce you to cinders??
# We Could Be All Alone In Space: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9248742
# Eclipse: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563323877-5e1
@ Eclipses: http://space.about.com/education/space/msubeclipses.htm
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