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# CARNIVAL! http://salon.com/travel/feature/2000/02/26/rio/index.html
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# "The World Wide Watch" - WORLDWIDE UFO WATCH INSPIRES GLOBAL COOPERATION -
First Event of Its Kind Draws Participants In 51 Countries. It was the
first known attempt to coordinate a night of UFO sky watching across the
entire world. But weather didn't cooperate: http://caus.org/hk022800.htm
# Were those lights in the skies over Rockford ETs? (GE) 16-year-old Joel
Coan shot of the five lights as they seemingly flew in formation and in
maneuvers around each other. http://www.gazetteextra.com/ufo022200.html
# Unexplained Fiery Orbs Return to Rockford, IL - Area residents have seen
several versions of UFOs: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/rockufo0.htm
: Have you watched many UFOs lately? Did you band together with others world
wide to watch them? Did you end up watching each other when the weather went
bad? Did you orgy? Did the ETs watch you? Who took pictures of whom? Where?
# Man lives with a wolf for half a year - stays with ETs rest of time:
http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/00Filex/filex_000114_02.htm
# Canada and Alaska Giant UFO: http://www.caus.org/mu022800.htm
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# TRACKING WEB SITE ATTACKER REQUIRES PERSISTENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND LUCK.
Both FBI investigators and private tech gumshoes continue to seek out
the perpetrator(s) of most of the recent Web site denial of service
attacks. Nyah!! http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/25/dos.hunt/
@ Net-Alert: http://www.onelist.com/archive/net-alert
# Have Script, Will Destroy (Lessons in DoS Jamming):
http://www.hackernews.com/bufferoverflow/00/dosattack/dosattack.html
# WinHack: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,12313,00.html
: Have you tracked any website jammers/crackers/hackers lately? Can anyone
with the proper motivation jam/crack/hack? Are we all un-indicted co-conspi-
rators, actually or potentially? Is thinking about sinning a sin? D'ya sin?
# Free Crypto Offered to Schools. (Wired) Is a firm giving away its login
cryptowarez to universities for free? But it may just be smart. Want some
candy, little girl? http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34528,00.html
# Crypto Confab Heats Up. There's no place like a remote island for a mob of
crypto experts to debate hot issues, mingle with FBI heads, and toss back
some rum drinks. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34603,00.html
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# Standard Condoms Too Big for Germans? BERLIN (Reuters) - A study has found
that the standard European Union size of condom is often too big for eensy
weensy li'l German men. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000228/09/odd-condom
: Was German "tiny-dick syndrome" re: well-hung Jews [aka penis envy] behind
the Holocaust? Documented in song: "Hitler had only one left ball; Goebbels
had two but they were small; Himmler had something sim'lar; and Herr Goering
had no balls at all, la la la la la la..." [to tune of COLONEL BOGIE MARCH].
[thanks, CobolMage!] Does this explain white US racism re: Afro-Americans??
# Pope Pius XXIII's legacy mars papal-Israel visit - silent about Nazi geno-
cide: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564614446-86f
And: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564614911-77f
# Israel releasing Eichmann memoirs - collectors vie to snap them up for
cheap: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564621906-e49
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# S.L.E.E.P. - SPIES, LIES, ECHELON, ECONOMICS, & PEOPLE. The question was:
"Why was a nice girl like you working in a place like that?" The former
Lockheed-NSA employee and member of the team that developed Echelon, had
quite an answer. http://www.etherzone.com/alde030100.html [suppressed URL]
# NSA Defends Massive 'Echelon' Eavesdropping Operation - following orders:
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/28/echelon0228_01.html
# Judge Says Recording of Electronic Chats Is Legal - we're watching you:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/cyber/cyberlaw/14law.html
# Echelon is "a great vacuum cleaner in the sky which sucks everything up" -
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stinwenws02035.html?999
re: ECHELON - The Secrets Gap - European Anger Over US Spy
Monopoly: "Memo to Eurodickheads: 1. Use encryption. 2. Read
the Internet, stupid." --J. Orlin Grabbe
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Evil Clerics Steal Your Soul:
# Shaolin monk leads gang on crime spree in Foshan, China:
http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/00Filex/filex_000222_01.htm
# Christian Coalition sues IRS - wants to be political AND tax-exempt:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564595180-9ba
# A Falungong follower chops her daughter to death - eats nothing:
http://www.sinopolis.com/Archives/Filex/filex_000104_01.htm
# China cops beat to death a Falun Gong member unable to pay fine:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564624826-0d4
: What's your favorite religious excuse? Does your faith free you from the
bounds of decency? What's your favorite religious crime? Is all crime holy?
# McCain condemns Pat Robertson - Robertson howls, casts McCain into eternal
hellfire: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564624915-d33
# Farrakhan woos orthodox Muslims - offers chocolate, champagne, chitlins
to them: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564615722-881
: What's your favorite religious rhetorical exchange? Do your religious pro-
nouncements have power in the secular/temporal world? Who's your enforcer??
# Samba School Fights Church on Virgin Statue. SAO PAULO (Reuters) A statue
of the Virgin Mary holding a dead Brazilian Indian sparked harsh debate
between the local Roman Catholic church and a Sao Paulo samba school which
plans to carry the statue in a carnival parade. Mary declared her neutral-
ity in the dispute: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000228/09/odd-virgin
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Leap-Y2K-A-Rama-Lama-Dama-Isn't-This-Story-Dead-Yet?
# JAPAN WATCHES FOR LEAP YEAR COMPUTER GLITCH. The Japanese government said
it will monitor computer operations Monday and Tuesday on concern that the
extra day in February 2000, a leap year, may cause Y2K-like glitches. Like
what? http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/02/28/japan.leapyearbug.ap/
# Leap Day No Sweat: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34586,00.html
# Some concern for Feb. 29 PC trouble - potential for confusion is not a
surprise: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564612439-e79
# Also: Singapore to revive Y2K help center - hoarding sandbags, rice, hot
peppers: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564611773-1ef
# And: Examples of some Y2K glitches - what exactly will ruin you way of
life? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564612450-e6e
# Leap Day bugs likely to be minor - but tell that to the unhappy victims,
bubba: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564622332-aa0
# Utilities Look During Leap. (Wired) Just when ya thought ya computer was
finally safe from calendar glitches, along comes Leap Day. It's kinda a
mini-Y2K, only sorta. www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34614,00.html
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