Bush Suspends Pay Act In Areas Hit by Storm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802037.html http://tinyurl.com/9v5l4 President Bush yesterday suspended application of the federal law governing workers' pay on federal contracts in the Hurricane Katrina-damaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana,

This is to type on?

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Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

http://sideshow.me.uk/ssep05.htm#041417 Waking up to nightmares A lot seems to have happened while I was asleep last night. For one thing, Mary Landrieu obviously gave up hoping that Bush would finally locate a conscience. I had been planning to write something very much like what Mark Kleiman

The Doom That Came To N'Warlins

http://www.terradaily.com/news/hurricane-05zd.html For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms. 2005 is on track to be the worst-ever year for hurricanes,

Moog dies

Synthesizer innovator Moog dies at 71 RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to

Not Safe For Work Or Children

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133 Amid rumors of sagging morale on the home front, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld greeted his wife Joyce Monday with an unanticipated visit to her vagina, according to the Pentagon. Today, at about 1600 hours EST, Secretary Rumsfeld landed in

The Brad DeLong Early Holocene Sci-Fi Contest

!...WellI'm declaring a contest myselfG The Idea is to write a few paragraphs that exhibit what Sci-Fi would *be* for an early hunter/gatherer. From Brads Blog: Cro-Magnon Communication The Twelve-Year-Old is on

Meta-Message for Alan Todd LeBlanc

I saw your page while doing web searches. Just wanted to drop a note saying that I have spent a few nights in Breaux Bridge and eaten breakfast at the Waffle House there. Nice little wide spot on the highway! My wife's family is from Tupelo Mississippi, so Breau Bridge is a good halfway spot

Brin-L RSS

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Constitution and Commandment

Our Constitution They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and hell, we're not using it anymore. Ten Commandments The real reason that we can't have the Ten

Spielberg's Next Movie

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/movies/01spie.html?oref=login On Wednesday, Steven Spielberg's apocalyptic thriller War of the Worlds invaded movie theaters worldwide. But the director had already moved on. That night in Malta, Mr. Spielberg quietly began filming the most politically charged

Wierd News Battle Royale

'I'd do it again': pistol-packing great-granny who killed 85-year-old beau http://www.canada.com/news/oddities/story.html?id=43dda27e-b8ff-442e-98ca-8bbe7a9a4e79 Furious their romance was ending, a 78-year-old great-grandmother shot her 85-year-old ex-beau dead as he read the newspaper in a

Brin: Dolphins use sponges as tools

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/06/06/dolphin.learning.ap/index.html?section=cnn_space http://tinyurl.com/a354e A group of dolphins living off the coast of Australia apparently teach their offspring to protect their snouts with sponges while foraging for food in the sea floor.

Trunk Monkey

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What do you call this?

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Hairjinks prompts lawsuit

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0601052armstrong1.html JUNE 1--Former Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong is threatening to sue an Ohio barber who once cut his hair and then sold the locks to a collector. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is steamed at Marx Sizemore, who peddled

What Is Your Worldview?

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The French Say Non!

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Re: Revenge of the REAL George Lucas...

Jim Sharkey wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: Please...rose or lavender or even puce (although Teal is the One True Color)...but *not* pink!!! How about heliotrope? Or maybe fuschia? Open wide and say Aaaavacado No, I prefer

dealing with attachments

Here is a handy hint I just received. Instead of sending a file as an attachment, send it to yourself via http://www.yousendit.com/ And then forward the message to the group of people you want to receive the file. The file disappears after one week or 25 D/Ls (whichever comes first). You

What's Your Seduction Style?

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Democrats Voted Out of Baptist Church

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20050507/ap_on_re_us/church_politics_4 Some in Pastor Chan Chandler's flock wish he had a little less zeal for the GOP. Members of the small East Waynesville Baptist Church say Chandler led an effort to kick out congregants who didn't support

Brin: Guess Who?

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I am spamming your head I am spamming your head

http://www.cdbaby.com/amycd2 The album I have been helping to midwife for the last year. With tinny sounding samples that are supposed to make you have to have to have this album today! I worked my ass off to get this out. You could at least give the tinny samples a listen.G xponent Soon To

Brin: Romanticism vs. Modernism

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North Korea's Nuclear Diplomacy Gets Hotter

http://www.spacewar.com/news/nuclear-doctrine-05m.html What is the strategic purpose of North Korea's nuclear weapons drive? Does it want to use them against the United States, South Korea or other nations? Or is it seeking to sell nuclear material to terrorists? If not, is the program aimed

[People Of Interest] Barry Greenstein - Poker Player/Philanthropist

Barry Greenstein has been making a living at the poker table for many years, but he is just now getting the recognition he deserves. After winning the World Poker Tour at the World Poker Open 2004, some people are still asking who this guy is. For tournament pros and the players in the biggest

Army Clears 4 Top Officers Of Abu Ghraib Wrongdoing

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4408753/detail.html?treets=houtml=hou_natlbreakts=Ttmi=hou_natlbreak_1_07140204222005 Officials say the Army has cleared four top officers of all allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and those officers will not be

Vectrix Electric Scooter

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Black holes 'do not exist'

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050328/pf/050328-8_pf.html Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not

Brin:Launch Vehicle SpaceDev Streaker

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-05r.html SpaceDev has signed a lease to expand its fabrication and test facilities and to begin constructing portable, high tech rocket motor test support equipment in anticipation of test firing new rocket motors that SpaceDev is developing for its

Hey, I'm on ITunes!!!!!!

One or two of you may remember 3 years or so ago when I got all excited because some of my lyrics made it on to an album. I just discovered that the album is available on ITunes. The downside is that the song I contributed to is broken up into 4 parts. (At 17:41 running time that is

First Private Lunar Mission Succeeded Despite NASA Roadblocks

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-05p.html Lunar Prospector Against All Odds, by Alan Binder, Ph.D., is the highly personal and engaging story of how the Lunar Prospector orbital mapping mission was developed and carried out by the author between late 1989 and 2001. While this is partly a

Singularity Blues

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue415/labnotes.html When my mom was on the brink of marriage, her mother dragged her out to spend her meager teenage life's savings on a set of silverware. Not flatware and ceramic dishes, but actual silver—something of enduring value that Mom could sell if hard

The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time

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Another case of Skiffy precience

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/30mar_moonfountains.htm?list1119125 It's astonishing how prophetic some science fiction has been. Back in 1956, two years before NASA was even created, Hal Clement wrote a short story called Dust Rag published in Astounding Science Fiction, about two

Human Virus Scanner

http://totl.net/VirusScanner/? Human Virus Scanner The virus that have infected you will be show here along with their cures, if known. Viruses you suffer from: Junkfood Eat some real food. Something which you can identify the source of every ingredient, not the point of manufacture.

Preople

http://www.preople.com/ Preople Rank Robert Seeberger 15,400 There are 4143 names in our database that have a higher Preople Ranking and 35108 names that have a lower Preople Ranking. Your ranking is based on how much people talk about you on the web. If this was your name and you want to

New Hitchhikers Guide trailer - Much better this time

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A Scanner Darkly

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Koko news

News of the Weird reported in September on Koko, the gorilla that knows about a thousand words in American Sign Language, and in February, she was back in the news at her home at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, Calif. Two of Koko's female handlers filed a sex discrimination and wrongful

[Listref] Finding the Ultimate Theory of Everything

http://www.rednova.com/news/space/132303/finding_the_ultimate_theory_o f_everything/index.html Could two lookalike galaxies, barely a whisker apart in the night sky, herald a revolution in our understanding of fundamental physics? Some physicists believe that the two galaxies are the same - its

Safe NukesNo, Really!

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue411/labnotes.html One great thing about science fiction is that there are so many cool futures to choose from. You've got your robots future, your biotech future, your hardscrabble colonies out in the planets and asteroids. ... Of course, the real world of

I think it's a parody

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Save Toby

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Tits (a womans perspective)

http://www.girlcomic.net/nov2k1/nov2k1_quickie_sara.php Rack ‘em! - A Story of Breast Envy Sara Regezi tells us why staring at your chest is not a men only event. By Sara Regezi I am obsessed with breasts. Big, full, luscious, round, bodacious boobs, tits, melons, hooters, chi-chis, ta-tas,

first dark galaxy discovered?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16226 A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a large amount of mass that

[Satire] Flintstones Are Way Too Gay

Fred and Barney should be banned because they are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants and live together in the suggestively-named town of Bedrock, complains a conservative activist http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6934878/site/newsweek The ongoing campaign against alleged gay icons

Public Opinion Watch : Social Security

Social Security: That Dog Won’t Hunt Department ICR surveys of 1,236 and 1,231 adults for Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University, released February 10, 2005 (conducted February 3-6 and February 4–6, 2005)

NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water. The scientists,

Intel unveils laser breakthrough

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4271825.stm Intel has unveiled research that could mean data is soon being moved around chips at the speed of light. Scientists at Intel have overcome a fundamental problem that before now has prevented silicon being used to generate and amplify laser light.

Our Best Defense:Social Homeland Security

http://www.irregulartimes.com/socialhomelandsecurity.html Imagine an attack on the infrastructure of the United States so devastating that not just three thousand people, but tens of thousands of people die. In addition, the attack leaves America so damaged that basic food and health care are

Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66575,00.html?tw=rss.TOP Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for cleaning up contaminated soils. The results of a successful field trial in California last year were published last week in the online arm of Environmental Science

[Opinion]On culture front, we're losing war

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Here are three small news items from around the world you might have missed: 1) An unemployed waitress in Berlin faces the loss of her welfare benefits after refusing a job as a prostitute in a legalized

Exorcism live on TV

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42833 The UK's Channel 4 is taking reality television to the next level with the planned broadcast of a live exorcism of a man whose brain activity will be monitored while a priest drives out his demons. Channel 4 has earned a reputation

Diamond Planets

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_planets.ht ml The universe beyond our solar system just got wilder. Astronomers meeting in Colorado this week said they have found a disk of planet-building material around a small, failed star called a brown dwarf. The discovery raises

You Already Guessed This

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Trojan horses plague open source

http://www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/coding/stories/73131.html At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain Trojan horse code this year. The three most commonly used packages affected were Sendmail, OpenSSH and tcpdump/libpcap.

Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow [Update}

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5211218.html Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN] | 30 Jan 2005 Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of

Mexican worm takes a new turn

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/211215_mexico09.html The world nearly lost a peculiar piece of Mexico's cultural tradition this week after the government, without regard to drinkers anywhere, targeted the lowly worm at the bottom of the mezcal bottle for extinction. It seems that the worm

Poll: Tap wealthy on Social Security

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=676e=1u=/usatoday/20 050209/ts_usatoday/polltapwealthyonsocialsecurity http://tinyurl.com/3kpef Most Americans are willing to endorse painful steps to ensure Social Security (news - web sites)'s long-term solvency - steps that nick the rich, that

US has more nuclear weapons in Europe than thought

http://www.spacewar.com/2005/050209070333.aov1fd6u.html The United States is keeping some 480 nuclear weapons in air bases in Europe -- twice as many as analysts had previously estimated -- to deter attacks from terrorists or rogue nations, The New York Times said Wednesday, quoting a new study

For Old Fogies

An email cruising the net sez: 1974 Vs 2004 Do you have the level of maturity to relate to this? 1974: Long hair 2004: Longing for hair 1974: KEG 2004: EKG 1974: Acid rock 2004: Acid reflux 1974: Moving to California because it's cool 2004: Moving to California because it's warm 1974:

Chimera

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.h tml http://tinyurl.com/3kjah Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal. Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical

IPod Loading

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/jobs/23IPOD.html?ex=1264136400en=5a 09f6a87d799307ei=5088partner=rssnyt http://tinyurl.com/3zmnj It sounds like a line from a spam e-mail: Work from home! Low risk! Flexible schedule! Earn hundreds of dollars each gig! But an emerging group of resourceful

NASA envisions Mars warmed up for life

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002172407_mars06.ht ml http://tinyurl.com/58hnw Global warming may be a scourge on Earth, but injecting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere of Mars might be just the thing to turn the barren planet into a living, breathing world that could

SpamAdaption

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2005/02/spammers_have_a.html In the next few months, E-mail spam is going to get a lot worse, at least, that's the prediction of The SpamHaus project, a global anti-spam group that point the finger to a new spamming technique that consist of sending spam via

Terabyte Storage

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/02/04/holographic/index.php Japan's Optware Corp. announced a detailed roadmap toward commercialization of its Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) technology on Thursday. It has also set up an alliance to promote HVD and will later this year set up an office in the

Wanna see something mindblowing?

http://www.demo.com/demo/demonstrators/2004/video/total.asx Requires WindowsMediaPlayer, but it is well worth it. The subject is augmented reality and is the finest demonstration of a new technology I have personally ever seen. Be prepared to mix superlatives with profanity. I was unprepared to

Zogg

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First Amendment No Big Deal, Students Say

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=519e=1u=/ap/students _first_amendment The way many high school students see it, government censorship of newspapers may not be a bad thing, and flag burning is hardly protected free speech. It turns out the First Amendment is a second-rate

Judge backs Guantanamo challenge

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4223561.stm A US federal judge in Washington has ruled that special military tribunals being used to try hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are illegal. Judge Joyce Hens Green said the tribunals denied the detainees their basic rights under

Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

http://www.startribune.com/stories/562/5211218.html One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and

'Collapse': How the World Ends L3

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30EASTERB.html?oref=log inoref=login http://tinyurl.com/47hvq EIGHT years ago Jared Diamond realized what is, for authors, increasingly a fantasy -- he published a serious, challenging and complex book that became a huge commercial success.

Canada, Russia Eye 'Bridge' Over Melting Ice Cap

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iceage-05b.html Global warming may augur future environmental misery for some, but it is good news for entrepreneurs poised to cash in on the melting polar ice cap to forge a new Canada-Russia trade route. Russian crude oil destined for the gas guzzling United

The intersection of Social Security and Abortion

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Googlism _ kind of L3

http://www.googlism.com Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms below. I did some for some names from the list and got some funny results. Googlism for: nick arnett

You're In?

This is just weird! http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine_martha.htm For almost the entire course of the 20th century, unknown to the public, doctors and medical researchers have been proving in both laboratory and clinical testing that our own urine is an enormous source of vital

Johnny Carson Dead At 79

Jeez, a lot of us grew up with this guy on TV. I can barely remember Jack Paar on the Tonight Show. http://www.click2houston.com/entertainment/4121637/detail.html?treets= houtml=hou_natlbreakts=Ttmi=hou_natlbreak_1_01050201232005 The man who ruled over late night TV for 30 years -- Johnny

Humor to lighten Julias day

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Bush Inbox

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How Would the Bush Plan Work?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1018065,00.html The Bush Administration has not yet offered details of its plan for Social Security, but it's expected to follow the contours of a proposal spelled out by a 2001 commission on Social Security: a combination of scaled-back

Judge: Evolution stickers unconstitutional

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/index.htm l A federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, has ruled that a suburban county school district's textbook stickers referring to evolution as a theory not a fact are unconstitutional. In ruling that the stickers violate the

All Your base

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Re: Julia The Troublemaker was...RE: E-mail program questions

God wrote: Robert Seeberger spoketh: Question to religious listmembers: Are religious peoples required to killfile this particular GOD individual because of the first commandment? For the Christians: Such act would violate My updated Sixth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill(file). For all

Re: Pozen's SS plan Re: Social Security

Erik Reuter wrote: The annual fee for an index fund is about 0.1%. So, 0.1% of $100B is $100M. In actuality, it will be lower, since such a large account will be able to get economies of scale. Very large pension funds currently can get 0.05%. Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but you are

[Listref] How the Earthquake affected Earth

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/10jan_earthquake.htm?list11191 25 NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet's shape, shaved almost 3 microseconds from the length of the day, and shifted the North Pole by

North Korean missile to defect upon reaching US

http://www.chaser.com.au/show_story.asp?ID=634ED=68CAT=2 PYONGYANG, Tuesday: North Korea's longest range missile declared its intentions to defect today, revealing it finally possessed the capabilities to fulfil its long-held dream of emigrating to the west coast of America. I am seeking a

Degrading Pig Ahhhhh......Stimulation

http://weird-news.news.designerz.com/pig-not-degraded-by-televised-sex ual-experience-british-watchdog-rules.html http://tinyurl.com/52rep In one of their more delicate rulings of recent years, British television watchdogs ruled that a pig sexually pleasured on television by a minor celebrity

Guffaw

http://www.borowitzreport.com Amazed that the Mars rover has lasted much longer than anyone expected, NASA scientists changed the name of the rover from Spirit to Rumsfeld. xponent Fer Grins Maru rob ___

Andrea Yates Conviction Overturned

http://www.click2houston.com/news/4054179/detail.html?treets=houtml=h ou_4pmts=Ttmi=hou_4pm_1_04000201062005 Andrea Yates' capital murder convictions for drowning her children were overturned Thursday by an appeals court, which ruled a prosecution expert witness gave false testimony at her

Carbon TVs to edge out liquid crystal, plasma?

http://news.com.com/Carbon+TVs+to+edge+out+liquid+crystal%2C+plasma/21 00-1041_3-5512225.html?tag=nefd.lede http://tinyurl.com/4dybk You can find carbon in coal and tennis rackets, and a few years from now, it could run your TV. Various companies are currently trying to perfect the

Technovelgy

http://technovelgy.com/ Explore the wide variety of inventions and ideas of science fiction writers - over 700 are available on Technovelgy (that's tek-novel-gee!). Use the Timeline of Science Fiction Invention or the alphabetic Glossary of Science Fiction Technology to see them all, look for

Synthetic Genetics

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacemedicine-05b.html Devices the size of a pager now have greater capabilities than computers that once occupied an entire room. Similar advances are being made in the emerging field of synthetic biology at the University of Houston, now allowing researchers to

Tsunami Surfer

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=573e=1u=/nm/2004123 1/od_nm/quake_lanka_surfer_dc Briton Surfs Tsunami, Survives Fri Dec 31,10:41 AM ET HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - British surfer Martin Markwell had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave -- but when it finally came

Invasion of the Factoids

Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled Gentlemen Only . . . Ladies Forbidden . . . and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. -- The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska -- The first couple to be shown in

Clade and Crache

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=booksfield- author=MARK%20BUDZ/104-7831071-4626332 http://tinyurl.com/526xk http://www.markbudz.com/ After reading Budz second novel Crache, I sit almost convinced that Budz is a pen name for Brin. It's the plays on words and the puns

Christmas Cheer

http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/scp/viewer/index.php?client_id=117 2event_id=14927 http://tinyurl.com/5pyn8 Merry Christmas everybody!! Happy Holidays!!! xponent Sleigh Driver Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Christmas Cheer 2

A new contract for Santa has finally been negotiatedPlease read the following carefully... I regret to inform you that, effective immediately, I will no longer be able to serve Southern United States on Christmas Eve. Due to the overwhelming current population of the earth, my contract

Famous Atheist Now Believes in God

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=519ncid=519e=16u=/a p/20041209/ap_on_re_us/believing_atheist http://tinyurl.com/5ljs5 A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God — more or

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