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postal experiment gone awry Saturday, December 9, 2000 08:53 a.m.

* Experiments you can perform upon the United States Postal Service: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html
# Defense Department Computers Vulnerable to Attack - CyberWar is hot: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43417-2000Dec8.html
* German Propaganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
 

Have you experimented/propagandized/virtualized/dressed any aliens lately?
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# Airplanes and Ray Guns. (SFBG) The propaganda machine of the corporate-government complex is glossing over the threat of radio-frequency terrorist weapons and focusing instead on rogue state missiles, suitcase nukes and bio-war. The reasons? http://www.sfbayguardian.com/nessie/30.html
$ Circuitry for Microwave Harassment and MC gear is available here. It's Portable, weight approx. 12 lbs, range is up to 1 KM.  Title: ULTIMATE WEAPONS & LAB DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM: http://www.tsc-global.com/oshpast.html
   
$ If you want actual harassment gear I suggest getting an HSS speaker system from American Technologies Corp. http://atcsd.com/HTML/hss.htm
# Protesters Taunt Troops with Mirrors - throwing rays instead of rocks: http://news.excite.com/news/r/001208/10/odd-mirrors-dc
 
Have you used technology to harass/taunt/befuddle anyone lately? Is it fun?
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Current items at ARTS & LETTERS DAILY < http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/ >
 
# A self-taught computer whiz working out of his converted garage, Steve Grand is quite likely to revolutionize our lives in the next century...
 
# And you thought nipple piercing was as extreme as it got? Well, a black-market leg amputation can cost as much as $10,000 these days. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/12/elliott.htm
 
* The moral paradigm for liberal thinking about biotech has problems. Sure, biotech goods ought to be fairly doled out. But can they be? http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/reviews/germ-line.htm

* If the forbidden is essential to exciting sex, and our culture forbids nothing except inequality, we're doomed to boredom in the bedroom: http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001203mag-merkin.html
Are you moral/transformed/revolutionary? Are changes necessarily amoral?
 
# The holy grail of cryptograms was created by Edgar Allan Poe more than 150 years ago. A Toronto software geek has just deciphered the code: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/Arts/20001130/RVPOEE.html
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 "For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end." --JLB
*** all the observations at: http:///skeptilog.pitas.com ***

milk of reptilioid kindness Saturday, December 9, 2000 06:09 a.m.

  "There are no moral or intellectual merits." --J.L.Borges
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* AAV FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/alt/alt.alien.visitors.html
* REPTILIAN MANIPULATION OF THE TEMPORAL MATRIX: (thanks, Autymn!) http://users2.50megs.com/reptile/exp/e022800a.html
* pamela stonebrook: reptoid lover (a.k.a. Blue Resonant Human) http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id628/pg1/
 
* Do the mysterious Ica Stones of Peru prove the survival of dinosaurs into "recent" times, or existence of an advanced ancient civilization? http://paranormal.about.com/science/paranormal/library/weekly/aa111599.htm
# Dino Turns Out to Be 'Iffyosaurus' - skeleton on display for 116 years is elaborate fake. http://news.excite.com/news/r/001208/10/odd-fake-dc
 
Have you had sex with any reptilians/reptilioids/reptoids/reptiles/me yet?
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* Alien beings preparing drugs for experimentation on ancient Egyptian subjects: http://www.plexoft.com/SBF/bald.aliens.html
$ Need Weed? Is this real? You tell me: http://www.itoke.co.uk/
 
# ESP powers absent at mass mind-reading test. A massive psychic experiment has failed to prove the existence of extra sensory perception. Ugh. http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_138182.html
* Scandals and truth etc: http://madona.tripod.com/index11.html
 
Have you tested any drugs/psychics/scandals/truths lately? Did you pass?
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# Bearded woman accused of being Devil's offspring - refuses to shave off thick beard & moustache - she says they keep her warm. http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_137749.html?menu=news.quirkies
# More Than 400 People Castrated in Extended Norwegian Crime Purge: http://news.excite.com/news/r/001208/10/odd-castration-dc
 
* YETI@Home - where's BigFoot? http://www.phobe.com/yeti/ (thanx Hil!)
# In Katmandu, the hub of modern economy is five-star Hotel Yak and Yeti. http://www.herald.com/content/wed/business/internat/digdocs/073517.htm
* No longer cryptozoological (thanks craig!): http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cryptozoo/decouver.htm
 
Have you found/lost/accused/castrated any Yeti/Vikings/Reptilioids lately?
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* BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES ONLINE: http://sites.netscape.net/dhcblainfo/
$ 3rd Eye Inc - Wicca/Magick supplies: http://www.thirdeyeinc.com/
 
* Real Haunted Houses: http://www.realhaunts.com/ (thanx Hilary!)
# Women are twelve times more radioactive than men. Cinnamon is imported from another planet: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hancockd/dwol.htm
$ 2nd Generation Entertainment Robots: http://www.aibo.com/
* Useless Knowledge: http://www.uselessknowledge.com/
* Psychic Chicken Network: http://www.ruprecht.com/
 
Are you female, radioactive, magickal, entertaining, robotic, psychic, hot?
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  "The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter." --Shalom Aleichem

all the hate you love to bait Thursday, December 7, 2000 07:06 a.m.

* Jerry's Aryan Battle Page:HOME: Smiling Swastika
* NEO-NAZIS AND NEOCONS: AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE:
 
* Nationalist Observer: http://www.whiteracist.com/
 
* Hate Groups and Extremist Activity Throughout the U.S.
 
* Apologetics Index - Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Movements, Doctrines, Etc. http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/index.html
 
 
Are you energized by hate, love, indifference? Are you well-hated? Do the voices in your head tell you who / when / how to hate / love / shrug? How many deaths does it take til ya know that too many people have died? Is it easier to hate humans, subhumans, superhumans, aliens, yourself, me?
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 "These ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. On those remote pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance." --Jorge Luis Borges

inserted into reality Wednesday, December 6, 2000 03:46 a.m.

 "Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."  --J.L.Borges http://www.themodernword.com/borges/borges_quotes.html
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crucified
* Goat Monism - Everything Is Truly A Goat: http://www.goatism.org/
* Monkey Hot Or Not? http://www.modernhumor.com/mh/0011/monkey/
* The Church of Saint John the Baptist of the Alien Artichoke: http://www.alienartichokes.org/  [thanx, craig <c.@boohoo.demon.co.uk>]
* Gnostic Society Library: http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/library.html
 
What's your favorite religious belief? Has it done you any good lately?
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* I Have a Philosophical Secret! http://www.sofn.org.uk/springer.html
* PostModernism Generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/
 
Have you felt philosophical lately? Will you ever be philosophical again?
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# Stars of India under spotlight. (BBC) A conference on astrology has started in Bombay with a call that astrology be acknowledged as science. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1050000/1050562.stm
 
* OOH, WITCHY WOMAN - Salem Reports: http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com
# He Said, She Said: Pick-up lines and aliens: Both are frustrating. http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_washington/20001203waheshe3.asp
 
Are you more exploited by astrologers, aliens, barflies, scientists, me?
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# GRAVY WASTED! SCIENTISTS CONCERNED! NATIONAL SCANDAL! WHO PAYS? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1047000/1047698.stm
* Canada - Maps of Domination: http://www.standonguard.com/cart3.html
* Personification - FattZona: http://www.yerf.com/kellearl/fattzona.jpg
 
What's the best state on Earth? What's the best planet in Space? Really?
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  "Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work." --Jorge Luis Borges

so many deities, so little time Monday, December 4, 2000 05:16 a.m.

* The Agnostic Church: http://www.agnostic.org/
* AGNOSTIC BIBLE: http://www.agnostic.org/httoc.htm
* The Church of Virus: http://www.lucifer.com/virus/
* The Church of the SubGenius: http://subgenius.com/
 
* 24 CHRISTIAN URBAN LEGENDS - Neat stories of events that never happened: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm
* Does Evolution Rule Out God's Existence? Or Vice-Versa? http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/dbsr/EVOLUT/HAUGHT.htm
 
 
* Download the HeX http://www.amristar.com.au/~hutch/hex/ and/or MegaHAL http://www.amristar.com.au/~hutch/megahal/ conversation simulators; free yourself from the tedium of actual conversation.

* ALIEN ENCYCLOPEDIA: http://mib.htonline.com/aliens/entries.html
* "Feuerball" - Are UFOs an invention of Nazi Germany? Is there a secret Nazi base on the continent of Antarctica? Any others? http://ufos.about.com/science/ufos/library/weekly/aa120400a.htm
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  "Two Rules for Life:
   1. Don't tell people everything you know. 
   2."
   --anon
 

hominids behaving badly Monday, December 4, 2000 04:44 a.m.

  "It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors." --J.L.Borges
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"The Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image" proposes that the invention of alphabetic writing rewired the brains of those who learned how to communicate using this culture-changing tool. Great social benefits followed. But a precipitous decline in feminine values manifested by women's status, goddess veneration, nature, and representative art occurred in tandem. For example, the European witchhunts followed closely in the heels of the printing press. The return of the image in the modern age through the medium of photography, film, TV, and internet have brought about a sharp rise in the values denigrated during the 5000 year reign of patriarchy and literacy.

$ Promotion, excerpts: http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/
* Review: http://freespace.virgin.net/www3.org/info/avg1.htm
* Comment: http://freespace.virgin.net/www3.org/info/avgcomments.htm
? Search: http://www.google.com/search?q=alphabet+versus+goddess

: Have you rewired your brain lately? Do your media make you act badly?
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* UFOs, Aliens, Antichrist & Bible Prophecy - Angelic Deception and The End Time Lie - Damnation: http://www.mt.net/~watcher/
* Communicating with Aliens: the Psychological Dimension of Dialogue - DESIGNING A TEAM FOR ALIEN ENCOUNTER: http://uia.org/uiadocs/alien4.htm

* You say that you speak Pentagonese, Geektalk, Double Dutch, Old Tasmanian, and there's always someone who can understand you?  Do you resent being comprehended?  Try Fith, the language that humans can never grok: http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm

: D'ya understand aliens, bureaucrats, prophets, commentators, whips, me?
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* Ghost Poo? http://www.hypermax.net.au/~user/leong/Turd.html
* Fluoridation is the work of Godless Communists out to kill you:  http://enteract.com/~mgfree/Medical/Fluorine/FluorineApathy.html
$ Watch where you put your hands. Never masturbate with a chainsaw: http://emedco.com/emed2/product.asp?sp=yes&pf%5Fid=JQS340&dept%5Fid=1019

* Patron Saint Index: http://www.uselessknowledge.com/trivia/saints.shtml
* For Holy Freedom, the Mud River Militia: http://home.att.net/~el.kabong/
* G.W. Bush, AntiChrist: http://www.geocities.com/trebor_92627/Bush.htm [thanks, Stormy!]

: Are you more threatened by food, chemicals, weapons, saints, politicos?
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  "Loot, plunder, rape, pillage, and burn, but always remember: Burn Last!"  --Paula L Peterka

aliens, aliens everywhere Sunday, December 3, 2000 06:27 a.m.

* Alien Abductions and the End of White People
  http://www.eserver.org/bs/06/Newitz.html
* Alien Abductions - Some Surprising Answers:
  http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/abduction-keneipp.html

* Alien Abductions? http://skepdic.com/aliens.html
* Researching Alien Abductions - Hypnosis, Healing &
  Recovery: http://www.isur.com/articles/resalien.html

* Argonaut-Greywolf -- Ghost-Alien Connection
  http://www.alienufoart.com/GhostAlienConnection.htm
* Adopt An Alien: http://www.web-docent.com/adopt.html

* Life On Other Worlds: http://www.nua-tech.com/paddy/ETs.shtml
* Alien Alphabet: http://www.futuramaoutlet.com/alphabet.shtml
* Me Human, You Alien - How to Talk to an Extraterrestrial:
  http://www.magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/extraterrestrials/alien1.html
 

space & time (out of sequence) Friday, October 20, 2000 07:13 p.m.

Freeze Recovery Drug - Step Toward Suspended Animation?
from the i'll-travel-to-alpha-centauri dept.
arete writes "Apparently a simple injection (in rats and mice so far) can revive body functions before warming. Since you're cold, your brain isn't using oxygen, and doesn't go into oxygen deprivation. But it lets breathing and autonomic functions (like shivering) restart even in the absence of a brain restart. Sounds to me like a big leap towards suspended animation. Of course, you can't be frozen below 0 C using this techique, because all your cells explode when the water freezes. Plausibly with some mild oxygen influx you wouldn't need to be below 0 C, though. " I think I'll wait a while before planning my interstellar trip, tho'.
 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/20/1451227&mode=thread

NUN BOOTED OUT OF CONVENT -- BECAUSE SHE USED TO BE A MAN!
    http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2220.html
FARMER AND WIFE CLAIM GHOST CHICKENS HAVE RUINED THEIR LIVES!
    http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2212.html
MILLIONS OF PIRANHA-LIKE FISH FALL FROM SKY IN ETHIOPIA!
    http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2222.html
CREW OF APOLLO 17 TOOK PHOTO OF TOTEM POLE ON THE MOON, FAMED EXPERT CLAIMS
    http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2214.html

Did the Lunar totem-pole builders use suspended animation to get here from their interstellar home?  Did they throw pirhana fish onto Ethiopia to help relieve the famine? Were ghost chickens responsible? Have they helped/hurt you? How? Have you induced suspended animation in any chickens lately? Is that why they're ghosts?

ETs I have known & loved Friday, December 1, 2000 10:24 p.m.


relieved of tedium Friday, December 1, 2000 02:12 p.m.

 
"Baptists: only trouble is, they don't hold them under long enough." -anon

* Alien abductions at BJU: http://www.toonville.com/wolvertoon/wolv161.gif
* Tunnel of the Dead! http://www.xs4all.nl/~intrvamp/tunndead.htm (Java)
* This is not a test, this is the future!! http://www.clydelewis.com/
* Chupacabra Song: http://www.msmango.com/hauntedweb/chupawav.html
* Reptilioid Research: http://www.reptilianagenda.com/menuother.html

Would you rather be abducted by Reptilioids, Republicans, Fundamentalists?
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@ See the Gutenberg Bible: http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp and
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/record.asp?strCopy=k&strPage=1r1&strSize=mid
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/record.asp?strCopy=g&strPage=-2r1&strSize=mid

# Flood forthcoming. Global warming could be on the verge of triggering a rise in sea levels that would flood huge swathes of the Earth's most densely populated regions. Caused in large part by the melting of Greenland's ice sheet, this process would take a thousand years or more but would be "irreversible" once under way. Put on your galoshes, eh? http://www.exosci.com/article.php?story=200011270326343

Have deities/demons/aliens/angels flooded your planet lately? With warnings?
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* How do G-Men lunch? http://www.adflip.com/addetails.cfm?adid=2544
* Scrambled yet? http://www.adflip.com/addetails.cfm?adid=11076
* Dope laws suck: http://www.norml.org/
* Helmet laws suck: http://www.abate.org/
* All laws suck: http://www.ainfos.ca/en/

Have you sucked any laws lately? Have any laws sucked you? Are you wet?
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# Pioneer 10's Notable Afterlife. PASADENA, Ca. - NASA is calling its oldest operational spacecraft, 35 years after the Pioneer 6 probe blasted into solar orbit. NASA will use a mammoth 231-foot (70-meter) antenna at Goldstone, California to try to downlink data from the solar-powered probe, originally launched for a fleeting six-month surveying mission. "There's no reason why it's not going to be there." Unless ETs got it. http://www.space.com/news/spaceagencies/pioneer_6_contact_001129.html

I've been to Goldstone; it's rather awesome. Y'all should go too. Say HI to the Deep Space team for me. Watch out for wayward planetary rovers.
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# Japan's Men Date Hot, Sexy Bots. (Wired) Better than the real thing? Japanese men are virtually "dating" pre-programmed cyber babes. They're so realistic they even nag. http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?q12646765
* What makes her dance? http://www.adflip.com/addetails.cfm?adid=11607

* ROBOTOPIA! http://cyberlewis.com/graphic/posthuman/topia/Robotopia.htm
* You CAN be replaced by a machine! http://www.imagination-engines.com/

Have you been replaced by a machine lately? Are you relieved of tedium?
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  "The universe is comparable to those code systems in which not all the symbols have meaning, and in which only that which happens every three hundredth night is true." --J.L. Borges


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