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@ Chain Letter Evolution: http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/clevo/start.htm
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# Solar Smoke Rings. (NASA) The Sun put on a dynamic show this week
with a scintillating shiny series of swirling coronal mass ejections
(CMEs) that expelled billions of tons of hot gas into interplanetary
space. See http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast03feb_1.htm
@ When Flesh, Blood Fell From The Sky. Falls of flesh and blood from the sky
would generate no small amount of curiosity, even in our technologically
advanced society acquainted with air travel. We can only imagine the con-
sternation that such events had upon people in the days before powered
flight. http://www.anomalist.com/reports/fleshblood.html
: What's your favorite aerial/spatial display? Would you rather be struck by
falling flesh/blood, photons, meteorites, frozen feces, frogs, UFO pieces,
jellybeans, satellite fragments, angel poop, bee poop, hot gases, cold cash?
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# Net Tax May Get the Heave-Ho. (Wired) It's a matter of changing one
sentence in existing legislation. But if Congress approves, the threat
of Internet taxation could vanish forever. Or at least for Washington's
idea of forever. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34075,00.html
# 'Terrorism tax' targets students. A college student scans a packed lecture
hall and sees a sea of nameless, studious peers. An immigration official
scans the same hall and sees potential terrorists. Starting next year, all
foreign students & scholars on U.S. campuses, no matter how loyal, will be
treated as suspects. They'll be fingerprinted & watched -- and they'll pay
for the privilege. http://usatoday.com/usatonline/20000203/1905481s.htm
: What's y'r favorite tax? Would you rather tax netizens, aliens, smugglers,
deities/demons, atheists, victims, students, spies, politicos, robots, me??
# Heroin-Embroidered Carpets Found. NICOSIA (Reuters) Persian carpets emb-
roidered with heroin have been discovered by cops in Cyprus; good thing
it wasn't anthrax: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000203/08/odd-carpets
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# Efforts to know composition of iron-pillar. TIRUCHIRAPALLI: The Indhira
Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, (IGCAR) at Kalpakkam, near Chennai
will undertake a detailed study of the 'wonder-iron-pillar' in New Delhi
to unravel the mystery behind the pillar remaining corrosion-free for
centuries: http://www.expressindia.com/news/02229500.htm
@ Weird Science 1999: Brains in Trouble - Light Me Up, Scotty - Where is
Planet X? - Moon Struck - Really Cold-Blooded - Organic Chips - Gotcha
Fish - Hard Black Rain - High, Wide, and Hot - Honda Hugs:
http://www.discover.com/jan_00/gthere.html?article=featweird.html
: How come everything doesn't rust? What's your favorite scientific mystery?
Have you done any fringe research lately? Are you getting a reputation? Do
your colleagues sidle away from you at meetings, afraid to be seen with you?
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# Experts warn of Web surfing risk. WASHINGTON (AP) - Top US systems geeks
warned Net users of a serious new security threat that lets hackers launch
malicious programs on a victim's computer or capture info a person enters
on a Web site, such as credit card numbers. The "cross-site scripting"
threat involves evil computer code that can be hidden within innocuous-
looking links to popular Net sites. The links can be e-mailed to victims
or published to online discussion groups & Web pages. The vulnerability is
especially unusual because it's not limited to warez from any particular
company. ANY Web browser on any computer visiting a complex Web site is at
risk. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563839878-b33
# Hackers' New Tack on Kid Porn. (Wired) Vigilante hackers who once
promised to eliminate child pornography by any means necessary have
abandoned their hacking ways and gone mainstream. Was it inevitable?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33869,00.html?tw=wn20000203
: What's your favorite Net.risk? Are Net.risks thrilling, daunting, tiring?
Do'ya promote/promulgate Net.risks? D'ya attack users? Do you discriminate?
Are you part of a hack/porn/risk conspiracy? Are you being manipulated? Why?
@ So you landed a job in the industry. Welcome to the digital revolution!
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,9206,00.html?mail
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# Tree-Rings Show Mythic Disaster Did Occur. Oral traditions of the Kauwerak
people of extreme NW Alaska describe a great disaster of cold called "The
Time that Summertime Did Not Come." The famine & hardship decimated their
population at this fragile northernmost fringe of human habitation. Now
scientists have shown that this mythic disaster did occur in 1783, most
likely due to a massive volcanic eruption that occurred thousands of miles
away in Iceland. http://207.201.156.159/stories/20001/0128004.htm
# A Gargantuan Discovery by Geology Gumshoes. For years, the Pacific North-
west was widely believed to be seismically quiescent. Then experts found
that one of the world's biggest temblors occurred there in 1700, confirm-
ing Indian legend and prompting large-scale quake preparedness efforts.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/science/20000127/t000008557.html
: What's your favorite disaster legend? Are your ancient traditions valid?
Should traditions be accepted, questioned, tested, rejected, ignored? How
about traditions of ET contacts & implantation & manipulation & control??
@ Earth's Active Volcanoes: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/world.html
@ Latest Quake Info: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/QUAKES/CURRENT/current.html
@ Net Quake Data: http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html
@ VolcanoWorld Starting Points: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html
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# FORMER CIA CHIEF'S COMPUTER USE PROBED. Unauthorized outsiders were in a
position to gain access to state secrets that former CIA director John
Deutch had stored on his home computers in violation of agency rules and
possibly federal law. http://politicslive.com/2000/02/03/cia020300.asp
# Back-stabbing, CIA-style - Deutch scandal just shows that spooks spend
a lot more time trying to ruin each other than they do chasing down real
security breaches. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/02/03/cia/
: Do you take the CIA seriously? Does the CIA take you seriously? Have you
threatened national security lately? Has the CIA? Do CIA mind-control rays
threaten your personal security? Have you taken steps to retaliate? How??
# CIA chief warns: new technology increases terrorism danger. WASHINGTON --
The Director of Central Intelligence warned that the US faces heightened
risk of surprise attacks involving nuclear, biological or chemical weapons
delivered by enemy missiles or foreign saboteurs. Danger has increased as
rogue states and terrorist groups now have better access to new technology
and can more easily hire the experts they need to help manufacture, and
deliver, weapons of mass destruction. It's a good time to be a techno-war
consultant: http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/w03cia.ssf
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