Gentle readers:

Let me thank those of you who've sent messages of condolence and support.   As for the vast majority of you who have sent no messages at all of any kind, well, the Prozac will wear off eventually, eh?

Probably few of you have been poking around at my website lately.  Those who have may've noticed some streamlining, lotsa topline menus, a general reduction in fuzziness, I hope.

The home page is now almost viewable. Be sure to click on the link to Wally Anglese's LITTLE PEBBLE site mirror (this info on an Australian doomsday cult is mirrored here to evade legal challenges / threats in Oz).  And see my other sub-sites, of course.  Immediately.

At GO! (Games, Guides, Journals) there's a new guide: GOOD GODZ! How To Discover Everything About Deities! as well as an old favorite, fleshed-out: Start Your Own Religion For Phun & Prophet!  Coming soon: If Warring On The US Is A Game, Here Are The Rules.

I've written some more for the VAMPIRES & WEREWOLVES & MUMMIES, OH MY! song cycle, and may even post some .MP3s one of these months. I'll just do a few more, for various other paranormal entities, then move on.

Due to Xoom.Com having been taken over by NBCi.Com and promptly munged, the Web-based SkeptiNews / SkeptiChat archives and a portion of The Church Of The Otters <http://tcoto.da.ru> library on world faiths are currently unavailable. If I can catch NBCi.Com on a day their member servers are up, I'll move everything to 50Megs.Com (much less flaky).  THEN I'll whip those damn sutras into shape.

  --Ric "doing anything to avoid doing anything meaningful" Carter

• US SHOULD INVEST MORE IN SPACE-BASED SPYING. The United States may eventually become "deaf and blind" to terrorist threats unless it devotes more resources to developing new technologies for spying from space, says a congressionally chartered group. Stretched too thin?

  Would you rather spy with sats, humans, aliens, robots, demons, me?

• New Pet Robot Won't Stain the Rug. Will well-trained robo-people be next? Soon?
• TELEDILDONICS FOR EVERYONE:
• More Astronaut Sex:
• Problems? Ask The Love Robot:

  Would you rather have sex with robots, phones, dogs, astronauts, me?

• ASK DOC JACQUES:
   Q: Lately I haven't felt quite myself. What do you suggest I do?
   A: Fragment further. Begin to disinvest in antiquated orthogonality. Invoke aleatory Weltanschauungen that preclude any non-movement towards striation. Rename yourself in a language the Father cannot speak. Erase all boundaries, including the one between erasure and non-erasure. Visualize your "self" as existing in the non-channels between the walls of symbolic fortresses. Drink more milk.

  Did you (de)fragment lately? Are you (re)named? Are you you, them, me?

* R.I.P. L.Sprague DeCamp
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Electormagnetic waves eating/controlling your brain? Subject: Cheap Circuits & Software - Below are a few links for ultra cheap and simple detector circuits etc.

• Simple ion detector for static electricity
• Simple Electro Magnetic Field Detector
• Simple ion detector for static electricity (positive & negative read)
• Free Windows Software turns your PC with Sound Card into a 20Khz Dual Trace Oscilloscope

 John Vincent <frost_bitten_ca@yahoo.ca>

"I have since used a sleeping helmut that I designed that incorperated 1/2" thick high density poly-urethane rubber (good acoustic shield) and sheet 30 mil copper (good EMF shield). It surrounds my entire head and neck areas. Since then there have been no vivid images at all."
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# Cubism, Browser Style. Flipping from Web page to Web page gets tiresome, eh? One inventor thinks his 3-D, cube-shaped window will revolutionize the way people surf.

# It Ain't Easy Being Light. At the new-media Doors of Perception event in Amsterdam this year the theme is 'lightness' -- and whether the Net has abandoned or still holds the promise of a light and dematerialized world.

# Saint's blood liquefies, citizens relieved. NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - The substance believed by many Neapolitans to be the dried blood of their city's patron, Saint Gennaro, liquefied right on schedule Tuesday. Whew.

Have you dematerialized lately? Are you light, heavy, 2D, 3D, 4D, dry? Do you prefer in liquify in Italy or elsewhere? Is liquification tiring?
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  "The great pyramids of antiquity are a virtual duplication of the modern military radio-communications network, broadcasting on the 7 1/2 Hz band from the main transmission tower on the Giza Plateau, with studios and executive offices in beautiful downtown Memphis [Egypt]." --T.B.Pawlicki

* Do you have too much free time? Have you done anything memorable with it?  Like maybe reconstructed the Star Wars universe using Lego blocks?  If not, why not?

Am I Hot or Not? Am I Goth or Not? Am I Nude Yet? Why is There Life?

What's your favorite leisure activity? Are you clothed or not? Are Lego blocks involved? Do they ever get stuck? Do they ever come alive? Do you?
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JFK was offed by the Vatican! Or was he? Whodunnit? Did astrological imperatives demand JFK's death? Was he mapped in the stars? What's your fave assassination book? Is the Truth out there? Can it ever be known? Do you care? Why not? Have you covered up any assassinations / elections / depressions lately? Have you written any books about the crime / coverup / conspiracy? Why?
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Is the election a diversion? Do Floridians vote funny because of all the mind-control microwaves beamed at them? HOW MICROWAVES CAN BEAM VOICES DIRECTLY INTO THE BRAIN - cheap, easy.

Have you controlled any elections / electrons / eruptions lately? Do you use microwaves? Do microwaves use you? Do they divert you from The Truth? When?
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# Poland: Group Warns of Revival of UFO Sect. A Polish sect-monitoring group, Nationwide Committee for Defense against Sects, has issued a warning about the revival of an "apocalyptic Polish sect" called Antrovis. This sect sees salvation in the landing of UFOs on a southern Polish mountain. It has also been linked to the alleged disappearances of individuals.  Blimey.  http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal111301.html

Have you landed your UFO in Poland lately? Did anyone notice? Are you worshipped, apocalyptic, disappearing?  Would you rather land elsewhere?
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  "There's too much confusion; I can't get no release." --B.Dylan

# NATIONAL ELECTION STOLEN BY SPACE ALIENS! ET's Swing Vote
# GORE DEFEATS GORE!! BUSH IS RESIDENT!! Nothing Changes Much
# Will Bush Family Nazi/CIA/Drug Links Come Back To Haunt Dubya?
# BUSH, GORE STEAL ELECTION FROM NADER!! "I Wuz Robbed" --Ralph
# REFORM PARTY-WRECKER BUCHANAN GLOATS! "Good Job!" --Bush
# CORPSES, CHUPACABRAS VOTE IN FLORIDA! The Margin of Victory
# Will Legal Fight Keep Clinton In White House 2 More Years?
# END OF THE WORLD IS AT HAND! 2000 Election Is Irrelevant

"Illusion is a thing that comes with long study." -- B. Hambly
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* Passion for Dragons Fires Baby Boom!
* Princess Diana the Ghost -- in Fun or Bad Taste?

# Returning to the "age of reproductive needlessness": what does it mean for androgyny now that his and hers are identical on the internet? And who gives a fuck? [via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Web/]

Are you needlessly reproductive? Do you lust after dragons? Do dragons fire your lust? Your heartburn? Your bunions? D'ya prefer ghosts to be tasty, tasteless, toasted? Why?
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# ANOTHER POSSIBLE ALIEN PHOTO! (ya sure)
# TWO ARRESTED IN CROP CIRCLE HOAX!

# Going to Hell? Find out who's going with you and who's already there. [Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/]
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"Hell is other people." (JP Sartre, I think)  If you want to view the 16th century version of Thomas Kinkade doing images of biblical tales set in Flanders / Belgium / Holland, see some old prints here. Adam & Eve and Joe & Mary and Sodom & Gomorrah and Jeezus & Satan all hanging out amongst the windmills, woodlands, farms, etc. Squint hard and you may see some flying saucers too.
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# Clairvoyant Canines?
# Truth Behind UFO Technology
# Alien Abduction Hypnotisers Deny Planting Subliminal Ads! (Blame the GOP)

I don't read my dog's mind, and vice versa. I don't have any alien technology that I know of.  I'm not subliminally vectored by hypnotists. Or am I? Are you? How can you tell? When?

  Ric "the voices in my head are talking Esperanto" Carter

Paranoid-schizophrenics never have a nice day.  Or do they?
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# Everybody knows about that anime that caused Japanese media-devouring kids to have elipitiform seizures a few years back. Let's try that again, eh? And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Humor/ for more twitching.

# The Superman-Roswell connection:
 http://www.poparttimes.com/archives/9603silver.html
# THE TERRESTRIAL COUNTERPARTS OF THE FACE ON MARS:
 http://apolloni.trancetechno.com/faces.html

# Your local forecast: Blazing plasma fire is raining down upon you at over 620 kilometers per second! Visit HAARP often if you fear Earth's geomagnetic field might not be able to ward off certain death. Have a nice day!

"If your eyes are set wide apart you should be a vegetarian because you inherit the digestive characteristics of bovine or equine ancestry" --Dr. Linard Williams, the Insurance Institute of London, 1932

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In ARTS & LETTERS DAILY now:

- Fingerprints: everyone knows that no two are alike, but no one has ever proved it. Just how reliable is fingerprinting?
- Patrick Tierney's sensational claim that U.S. scientists started a genocidal epidemic in the Amazon is false, says John Tooby.
- The Holocaust has been made to seem trivial. Its horrors are an integral part of American infotainment, says Detlef Junker.
- The Dead Sea Scrolls continue to bring Jews and Christians closer together. It now appears that Jesus Christ styled himself after a messiah named Menahem... [more]
- We all know that English is fast becoming the global language. Or do we? The spread of English won't happen the way we expect.
- Hacktivism is a term referring to the politics of the geek world, a covert attack on the growing political power of tech CEOs.
- 3 women have won the Nobel chemistry prize, compared to 129 men. Does this give us a true view of women's abilities in science?
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OK, enough of the trivia, let's get on to what's REALLY important: what I've been doing lately. Other than drooling over a digital recording studio the size of a Walkman cassette player, I've been retooling and expanding a gallery of cover-art of Barbara Hambly's SF, fantasy & historical novels; as well as trying to figure out just how to integrate my own minimal entry page, my old so-called home page, and my stripped-for-action links page, the latter two of which are sorely in need of amalgamation. Just trying to get it right...

  --Ric "he's very trying, indeed" Carter

Page down here to see a pennywhistler about to be abducted by aliens. This may be a Good Thing, depending upon your opinion of pennywhistlers. Further down the page is a pic of Charlton Heston with his fipple. Should C.H. be abducted by aliens? Was he already?

Some decades ago, Earth suffered a terrible invasion of Music Robot ETs. Have we ever recovered? Should we? What's their home planet?
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* Taking photographs of spirits
* Photos of the paranormal - or camera straps?
* Can photos reveal our hidden self?

Have photos ever revealed your spiritual/paranormal/hidden selves? Did you sign a release?  Have you ever channeled or been possessed by camera straps?  What's your favorite strap?
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Some current headlines at http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/

• EIGHTEEN MYSTERY SPACE OBJECTS DEFY DEFINITION! PSEUDO SCIENCE GETS A SOUND THRASHING!
• WAS A UFO SHOT DOWN IN OKLAHOMA?
• 1996 - EXTRATERRESTRIALS CAPTURED BY BRAZILIAN ARMY?
• FAITHFUL FLOCK TO SEE MYSTERIOUS IMAGE OF FACE ON WALL!
• THE LITTLE VAMPIRE!
• TRAILERGHOST.COM EXPLORES MOBILE HOME HAUNTINGS!
• NEW WAVE OF EXORCISMS SEEN: Some People Can Be Convinced They Witnessed A Demonic Possession As A Child!
• DRACULA SEEKS WORK WITH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE!
• CARAVAN PARK 'CHRIST' DRAWS THE FAITHFUL - PHOTO!
• SURVIVING DEATH IS A BRANCH OF PHYSICS!
• MASS UFO SIGHTINGS IN GILBERT ARIZONA - BUBBA IS BACK!
• 'SHE REALLY HAS THE WOUNDS' - Woman experiences stigmata!
• 'WE CAN REACH ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH CLONING'
• HITLER'S HAIR BEING SOLD ON INTERNET!
• CLONING JESUS OR NOT?
• MORE ON THE RAELIAN CULT -- EXTRATERRESTRIAL CLONES?
• WISCONSIN: MYSTERY DEATH SPURS CONCERN - EBOLA NOT RULED OUT!
• CLIMATE CHANGE RISK FROM TV!
• WHAT DO EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND THE EXPANDING HOLE IN THE EARTH'S OZONE LAYER HAVE IN COMMON?
• WORLDWIDE ANOMALIES RING THE EARTH: Is an Armada of UFOs surrounding us? Has HAARP gone worldwide? Take a look before they vanish!
• DR. TOM VAN FLANDERN : MARS MAY HAVE BEEN AN AMUSEMENT PARK FOR A HIGHLY EVOLVED CIVILIZATION!

Would you rather clone Hitler, Jesus, yourself, me? What's your favorite alien theme park?  Has TV ruined your climate lately? Do you exorcise regularly?  Have you survived death yet?  Have you thrashed any pseudoscientists lately?  Did they bleed much?
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http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/gate-1313-davila.html advises us:

"KOSMIC AND WORLD WIDE CALL FOR THE OPENING OF THE DIMENSIONAL GATE 13:13 October 13, 2000 - TOWARD A NEW CIVILIZACION - Invitation from the One Heart to start using a New Meditation and Prayer Format"

and then tells us how to use the InterNet to gain "Kosmic citizenship" in the "New Planetary-Kosmic Civilization".  But I wonder - will I have to give up my US passport?  Will the Space Brothers ask me a lot of nosy, personal questions?  Do they use spell-checkers?  When?
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** GOD IS DEAD AND I WANT HER JOB ** THIS IS NOT A BULLETIN **

I've been working lately on 1) songs, 2) my website, 3) my attitude.  New and revised lyrics re: (1) are now on (2) but until I record demos, (3) won't improve much.  More on that below.

I've been cleaning up my website with dandy software: "Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) A software to find broken links on web sites" -- I heartily recommend this for anyone with old link pages. I've fixed my music stuff, am now cleansing The Church Of The Otters and will do the Harry Oliver pages Real Soon Now.  I will NOT try to correct the SkeptiChat/SkeptiNews archives - too much crap...

But, back to music.  I *could* just sit out on the back porch with instruments & MiniDisc unit and record non-overdubbed songs with live traffic noise and dogs barking.  Or I *could* wait until I have enough boxtops to buy a nice little digital studio, the Roland/Boss BR-8 and make some professional-sounding productions.  Or I *could* just sit and whine.  But then you'd be deprived of hearing my wonderful rendition of CLONE-SEX.  Bother...

• Did'ya ever think about sea-kayaking halfway around the world? Me neither...
• If you surfed Mars and Luna would you bump into many ruins? Would it hurt?
• Interested in Clandestine Radio? See CRI and TDP for catalogs of clandestines, and CRW for a summary of activities. See ACE for some enthusiasm. See MVSWLC and Inwit and MIGS for more links. Anti-Castro and other clandestines have distinct, pungent histories. And don't miss &TOTSE.
• When you worship at the Temple of A-Life, d'ya prefer flames, wator, demons, or swarms? Why?

I might hand-off SkeptiNews to a couple new editors Real Soon Now - I'll write up guidelines / suggestions sometime soon, but I'm still officially offline. This break is good - I've done more reading than usual, less reacting. But how long can this last?