"There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless." --J.L.Borges: http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_quotes.html
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* There's no need to hire expensive <http://www.seg.org/> geophysicists or New-Agey <http://home.interstat.net/~slawcio/dowsing.html> dowsers if THE LORD tells you where to find <http://www.nessenergy.com/25_reasons.asp> profitable oil wells! You heathens would never dream of replacing your petroleum engineers with bible scholars, but that's why you don't work at <http://www.nessenergy.com/> Ness Energy - founded to "distribute God's SUPERNATURAL WEALTH to God's end-time ministries." Strangely, God's super-natural wealth has not translated into supernatural returns for Ness's <http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ness.ob&d=b> shareholders - but that's just God's way of testing the faith of the flock. Praise THE LORD and pass the investors.  [ via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/ ]

Do your deities lead you to fame/fortune/power/pride/sex/sanity? Why not?
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# Archaeologists find mysterious 4700 year old temple, the largest Stone Age structure known in Western Europe (27 times as big as Stonehenge). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-11/temple261100.shtml

* Girls!!! Here's how to hook an evil scientist. The secrets of sexcess! http://btinternet.com/~a.stobirski/evilscience/issue01/romance/romance.htm
$ Is it time to simplify time? http://www.simpleage.com/ How much do you have to spend to simplify time? Will VCRs reset themselves anyway? When?

Are scientists/engineers/philosophers/timekeepers/programmers sexy? Hugely?
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> DO MEN REALLY LISTEN WITH JUST HALF A BRAIN? RESEARCH SHEDS SOME LIGHT. It's no surprise for many women -- new research suggests men listen with only one side of their brain, while women use both. But scientists doing the study cautioned the findings don't offer concrete evidence that women are better listeners than men -- a question lead researcher Dr. Michael Phillips calls too "dangerous to ask" at this point in his research. http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/11/28/brain.listening/index.html

How much of your brain is devoted to hearing? Are you listening to me?
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* Jack Chick Parody Archives: http://flash.net/~twinkle/psycho/DARK/chick/
* This Is Your Death: http://www.sonic.net/jhuger/tract/tyd/index.htm
# What's down on the InterNet: http://www.whatsdown.net/default.htm

* Lullaby For A Dead Fly: http://www.mouchette.org/fly/flies.html
# Is it a newspaper's fault if subjects of its articles choose to commit suicide? http://www.brillscontent.com/2000nov/features/overkill.shtml

Is your life devoted to death? Is your death devoted to life? How often?
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  "To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality." --J.L.Borges

"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely." --J.L.Borges
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# Mexican Exorcists Busy in Land of Witchcraft, Pagan Rituals. (AP) In these days of high technology & lunch-hour therapy sessions, many think of exorcism as a relic of the Middle Ages. But the ritual to drive away the forces of evil is alive & well worldwide, perhaps no more so than in Mexico. http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/11/26/mexico.exorcists.ap/

# Psychic Parrot: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_126513.html
# Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia?? Would you notice/care if they did?? Are you nutz? http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1ccaff6e8f.htm

Have you exorcised any demons/cats/parrots/programmers lately? D'ya bite?
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# CYBERPUNK: The Ultimate Cereal Guide for Geeks. It's no accident that when post-cyberpunk sci-fier Neal Stephenson went around the country last year doing a book tour for his now classic tome Cryptonomicon, the passage he often recited at readings was the multipage treatise on the best way to eat Cap'n Crunch. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10091

# IF YOU USE NAPSTER, YOU'RE BEING WATCHED - monitoring your tunez: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/11/24/emusic.is.watching.idg/
* BORGES AND THE MILLENNIUM BUG. Borges’s Thoughts On Time, Fiction And The Universe: http://www.cec-spain.org.uk/Pub/Don/Don13/beardsell.html

What cereal is most likely to crash systems/control/reality? D'ya watch?
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* Harvesting asteroids: http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es425_master.html
# NASA's FIZZLING FINANCES PUTS PLUTO OUT OF REACH - damn their eyes: http://www.charlotte.com/observer/natwor/docs/pluto1124.htm
# UFOs - A Mass Delusion? http://www.caus.org/mc112800.htm

# Flying Saucers over Hollywood! Rod Serling’s secret saucer connection! Creator of TWILIGHT ZONE & his role in the UFO landing at Hollomon AFB! Believe or leave! http://www.alienzoo.com/features/o/200011240001.cfm

Have you harvested any UFOs/asteroids/believers/govts lately? D'ya grab?
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# "True" is a nice compliment to pay a sentence you find useful, but truth has nothing to do with the way the world really is. Getting in the way: http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/feature_quest.html

* STARLOGO programming language - philosophical tool helps to understand decentralized processes - model (and gain insights into) many real-life phenomena, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, ant colonies, and market economies. Macs/PCs/Java: http://el.www.media.mit.edu/people/starlogo/

* The Garden of Forking Paths: http://www.themodernword.com/borges/
* Constructed languages: http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/%7Ejrk/conlang.html
* Artificial Culture and Computational Anthropology: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/gessler/

* Center for Ludic Synergy: http://www.ludism.org/
* HipBone Games: http://haven.ios.com/%7Edavehuge/Welcome.html
* Enochian Chess: http://www.jacksonville.net/%7Emhenson/Frontpage2.html

Have you played with chaos/language/society/yourself lately? D'ya cheat?
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* The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (Endangered) -- Help Save The Tree Octopus From Extinction! http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
# Cephalopod News - Giant Deep-Sea Creature Amazes Spanish Scientists: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001103/sc/spain_cephalopod_dc.html
# Why Squids Glow: http://discovery.com/news/briefs/20000830/an_squid.html

# Mother Nature, damn the old cow, refuses to toe the politically correct line. Consider boys, whose very masculinity is a mental disorder. Love me or I'll kill you: http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Summer2000k.shtml
# Weimar Sex: http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/11/22/weimar/

# [ via http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/ ] Slug penises are huge. They get tangled, and regrettably, the only way to free them is to bite them off at the base http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n22/meek2222.htm

Have you copulated with any cephalopods/nazis/slugs/me lately? D'ya glow?
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   "Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man." --J.L.Borges

@ 1st Woman In Space: http://www.dailymegajoke.com/images/spacewoman.gif
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# NANOCOMPUTERIZED SOUL. By mid-century computers will be linked directly into our nervous systems via nanotechnology, connected to every neuron in our brains. Shazam: http://www.timesofindia.com/191100/19revw18.htm

* Magic Mushrooms as XMas presents: http://www.bluehoney.org/Xmas.htm
* THE FUTURE OF DRUGS: http://www.feedmag.com/drugs/index.html?alert
* Zzzzz: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/9/turkey_makes_me_sleepy.html
* The 25 Rules of Disinformation & 8 Traits of The Disinformationalist:  http://www.proparanoid.com/truth.html#25r

Are you often drugged by food, presents, music, info? Are you grateful?
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* Spookier than Dubya, mostly: news:alt.folklore.ghost-stories
* Doth thou protest too much? http://Protest.Net/subscribe.cgi
* Kill those ads, eat those cookies: http://www.adsubtract.com/
* Safer than being there now: http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/
* Universal Lab: http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr413_master.html

* HYPOTHESES - War of the Worlds - Do you believe in God? Or in multiple universes? DO WE LIVE IN A "DESIGNER UNIVERSE"? Which? http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0012/hypoth_warofworlds.html
# INSULT MORE GODS NOW! WIN VALUABLE PRIZES! EARN DAMNATION!http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/national/20001118-5.html

Have you insulted any gods/universes/ghosts/advertisers lately? How?
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"It is a bright, hot, relentlessly perfect L.A. day. I am eating a grilled cheese sandwich under the fluttering umbrellas of a restaurant patio as a woman named Daena tells me calmly, and with a hint of giddy pleasure, how it feels to have a wandering spirit of the undead enter her body. "They step in through my back on my left-hand side. And it feels like I almost become a glove and they slip right in. It's cloudy, more gauzy than looking out through my own eyes. For me, there's still that little voice in the back of my
 head saying, 'This is insane! Am I drooling? How weird do I look? What's going on?' It's like having two personalities going on in your head at the same time. It's so cool!" Daena is a clairvoyant. She has been working for Dr. Larry Montz, head of the International Society for Paranormal Research for the past several years. Dr. Montz is sitting on my right smiling approvingly at Daena's description. The three of us have met here to discuss what their work at ISPR entails and what sort of training is necessary in the pursuit of a ghostbusting career." http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es414_master.html

Have the undead entered your body lately? Do they pay well? Drooling?
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@ [ via http://memepool.com ] Remember Canadians, this Monday (Nov 27th) is < http://www.globeandmail.com/election2000/ > election day. So don't forget to cast your vote for the most interesting party in this race, The Marijuana Party of Canada < http://www.marijuanaparty.com/ > (Whoa man, I like sooooooo want to be your Prime Minister).

@ He ate all the chad, the cad! http://www.georgewbush2001.com/
@ G.W. Bush: merely http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.asp dumb, or true < http://gwbchimp.8m.com/ > lower primate?

Is your nation run by coke/pot/shit/apeheads? Does it matter? Why not?
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  "Everything has been said but not everyone has said it yet."  --M.Udall