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(you gotta see this!)

March 26, 2001 03:42 p.m. P.D.T.

* CULT OF THE DEAD COW: http://www.cultdeadcow.com/ [hackmeisters]
* CONVERSATIONAL TERRORISM: http://www.vandruff.com/art_converse.html
* MARIO'S CYBERSPACE STATION: http://mprofaca.cro.net/mainmenu.html
* THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS: http://www.slip.net/~knabb/

* Heroin Is Safe & Fun: http://www.sightings.com/general9/heroin.htm
* Study Backs Theory of 'Grassy Knoll' - 2nd Gunman Fired at Kennedy
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56560-2001Mar25.html
* Reincarnation of Area51? http://www.sightings.com/general9/dug.htm
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* Rich US Christian sect buys Australia - "it's good for the sheep"
  Baaa... http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/03/26/FFXS5FAOPKC.html
* Joseph Newman Free Energy Machine (yet again) www.josephnewman.com

* TOOSHOES & CAT: http://www.cris.com/~tooshoes/PenPartners.html
* Cleopatra: Short, Fat, Ugly: http://sightings.com/general9/ugly.htm
* Wirehead Hedonism - The future of mankind? http://www.wireheading.com/

* Calculation does to the brain what sex does to the genitals: blood flows
  to the most active parts. Okay, so what's 99 raised to the 5th power?
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4156478,00.html
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* MadCow plague will result in major human dieoff - we're all doomed.
  Repent:  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010322/hl/madcow_5.html
* Reconstruction of madcow's route via butchershop - connect the
  dots: http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999535
* Your body is a soup of poisonous chemical additives. Get neutralized
  soon: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010321/hl/chemicals_1.html

* via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Food/ Are you afraid to eat beef
  http://www.mad-cow.org/ but you hate tofu? http://www.tofu.com/ Enjoy
  some human meat product! http://www.manbeef.com/home.html  Yummy!!!
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* The Allagash Abduction -- "The True Story of a Man Taken for Ten
  Days To an Extraterrestrial Civilisation" -- SUPER-SIZE THIS and
  DEFINITELY, HOLD THE FRIES! -- How TV Psychics Fool People (it's
  all a trick) http://www.worldofthestrange.com/Archives/032601.htm

* A laptop in every child's school satchel? Even Bill Gates's alma mater
  ain't sure it's a brilliant idea. http://www.realworld.org/welcome.html
  and http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0112/news-lightfoot.shtml
  and also http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/computer.htm and
  http://www.allianceforchildhood.net/projects/computers/computers_links.htm
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* Lockheed X-22A Anti-Gravity Fighter Disc
  http://www.abovetopsecret.com/fighterdisc.html
* Aeronautical Map of the Groom Lake/Area 51 Region
  http://www.abovetopsecret.com/aeronautical.html
* Abydos "Modern Machine" Glyphs
  http://www.abovetopsecret.com/abydos.html
* USAF Future Weapons Proposals
  http://www.abovetopsecret.com/futureweapons.html
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refutations

February 27, 2001 04:47 a.m. P.D.T.

* RIP Claude Shannon http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406266451
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* Make your own crop circles: http://www.circlemakers.org/
* Aliens make man disappear - abducted in Malaysia:
  http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_221393.html?menu=
* Mars meteorite may show old life - Grey Panthers rejoice:
  http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406259979

* In science, if it's never been done, and you do it once, it's a mistake.
  Twice, and it's a mirage. Third time, it's truth. Enter: the Z Machine:
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4110977,00.html

Have you made any mistakes/cropcircles/mirages/lifeforms lately? Have you
been abducted by aliens/scientists/machines/concepts/me? How many times?
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* The Dead Media Project - It's Alive!! http://www.deadmedia.org/
* Oz Nazi Xword: http://www.smh.com.au/crossword/0102/07/quick.html
* TerrorWeb: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nf/20010226/tc/7731_1.html
* PureNet: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010227/tc/china_dc_1.html

* Too depressed to get to the doctor to refill your Prozac? Hiroyuki
  Nishigaki http://hometown.aol.com/hnishigaki/ has the secret method to
 "GOOD-BYE Depression": http://hometown.aol.com/nishigaki3/  CONSTRICTING
  ANUS 100 times daily. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595094724
  Now clench tight and see more at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Wackos/

Are you constricted, relaxed, terrorized, purified, depressed, mortified?
Who/what is your favorite dead medium? Have you clenched any media lately?
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* Jesus of the week: http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/
* Gaming Jesus: http://www.shaw-island.com/archive/20010216.html
* A dog for god: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0012/0012_01.asp
* Confessional: http://www.nationallampoon.com/springbreak/defaultpar.asp

* Christianity at the Crossroads - Can Jesus save himself in the 21st
  century? http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/02.15.01/index.html
* Vatican reins in Jesuit theologian - religious pluralism objectionable,
  verboten. Damn. http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=406261827

Have you saved any (demi)deities lately? Have they saved you? Is the entire
set impossible to collect? Should deities and theologies be watered-down??

* Buddhism is big with baby boomers, who have adopted a version that is
  small and self-absorbed, a soothing therapy. But is that so wrong?
  http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/02/26/buddhism/print.html
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  "There was a bunch of Theosophists down at the end of the bar, raising
   the devil.  Had'im about six feet off the floor..." --Firesign Theatre




inhibitions

February 27, 2001 04:09 a.m. P.D.T.

# These and other items via Fark http://www.fark.com/
* Multiple breast art: http://www.cyberium.net/multibrst/stcat.jpg
* Creative weapons design, incl. 9mm telephone:  http://birdman.org/
* Survive: http://www.x-entertainment.com/liquor/survivor/episode1.html
* Thought process patented: www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16541.html

* JESUS SEEKS LOVING WOMAN - date the Son of God: http://www.jesus.com/
* LordCo - holiest products: http://lordco.virtualave.net/product.html
* The truth about Hell: it's underground! http://www.av1611.org/hell.html
* Breakfast of Saviours: http://home.earthlink.net/~rubeldetzner/jesus.htm

Do you prefer multiple-breasted saviours with deadly telephones and athletic
rabbits? Would you buy products from such saviours? Even vacations to Hell?
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# These and more via STA http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/
* CHILEAN GOVERNMENT TURNED OVER SECRET UFO FILES TO U.S. - got pizza
  franchise in return: http://www.electricwarrior.com/news/ewNews000F.htm
* CONSPIRACY THEORY: Did We Walk on the Moon? Irresistible Proof of
  the NASA fraud: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/531.html

* A TIME TRAVELER'S WARNING ABOUT HAARP? http://p3n.org/pn022301b.shtml
* HAARP TRANSMITTER NOW RUNNING AT FULL POWER - now you know why your
  teeth hurt: http://geocities.com/brojongazette/frontpage/bj0201.html
* STAR WARS: A DONE DEAL? OR MIND CONTROL? Or just a way to spend lotsa
  surplus money? http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=6977

Is HAARP a mindcontrol component of the NASA fraud to make us believe that
modern technology was honestly developed and not stolen from Leprechauns??
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* GENETIC CODE DOESN'T REVEAL RACE DISTINCTIONS New data confirms what
  scientists have long suspected: DNA of human beings is 99.9% identical:
  http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/front/docs/genes022001.htm
* MANKIND'S GENE DEFICIT POINTS TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN - but doesn't explain
  tonsils, appendix: http://farshores.topcities.com/farshores/ngenes.htm

* The Golem Project - screensaver that evolves robots to which you'll
  own the copyrights! Wow! http://golem03.cs-i.brandeis.edu/download.html
* Self-configuring/evolving bots http://bc.tensegrity.net/links/99761/goURL

Have you evolved much lately? Were you created? Will you be outstripped by
evolving entities that keep improving, while you're stuck in the mud? Why?
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* The finest in broadcasting - APOCALYPSO Radio - WUVT, Blacksburg VA:
  http://www.subgenius.com/updates/X0013_THE_APOCALYPSO_radio.html
* We don't communicate effectively - Esperanto isn't enough - try Earth
  Language: http://www.sfo.com/~ucathinker/earth/english/syshome.htm

* Anti-missile Defense Will Bring Biblical Armageddon and Rapture -
  and just in time too: http://www.geocities.com/ynh369&IDLink=9033
* Cthulhu/Pez: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/archive/arch51.html
* Worst sys: http://techtv.com/help/hardware/story/0,23008,3312370,00.html

Do you demand only the finest quality in life/death/radio/video/crypto/sex?
Have you taken steps to improve yourself/others/aliens/robots/me lately??
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  "I am Lucifer of Borg. You will be incinerated. Repentance is futile."

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prestidigitations

Feb 26, 2001 09:36 a.m. P.D.T.

@ Thinky MarsProbe's Girlfriend: http://www.thinky.com/page42.htm
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* Hog Riders For God: http://www.killingthebuddha.com/ride_for_god.htm
* Pre-Pubescent Messiah: http://killingthebuddha.com/prepube_messiah.htm
* Toward a Catholic Glasnost - The Church is on the brink of collapse, and
  that's wonderful news. http://killingthebuddha.com/catholic_glasnost.htm
 
* THE EGYPTIAN BIBLE. The Hebrews’ Egyptian roots left numerous literary
  traces in the Old Testament, in the form of ancient Egyptian myths
  variously disguised, warped by 1000 years of handling, or ineptly edited
  by the Bible’s redactors. Much of what's in the Old Testament is bull:
www.nypress.com/content.cfm?content_id=3338&now=12/27/2000&content_section=1
 
Since Genesis starts with a description of Elohim creating stuff, and Elohim
is the PLURAL of El ['God'], is Judaism actually polytheism? Does the Xian
'Trinity' also implement this polytheism? The more gods, the better, eh??
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* When Osama bin Laden hid coded messages for his global operatives on
  porn Web sites, he was merely practicing the ancient art of "covered
  writing" ... http://www.feedmag.com/templates/printer.php3?a_id=1624
 
 
* Holy Homophobia! Who's afraid of the gay Batman? DC Comics, that's
  who. And they're not about to let the caped crusader out of the
  closet: http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0103/insidepub_pow.html
 
* Chimpanzee socialism: http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/199907120006.htm
* Modeling human motivation, building virtual gorillas, controlling all:
  http://gamasutra.com/features/designers_notebook/20001222/adams_pfv.htm
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(again) TOOTING MY OWN HORN DEPT. - I've revised many of the games/guides
pages at GO! http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/go.htm and added a gaggle also:
 
* If InnerSpace Exploration is a Game, Here Are The Rules:
  http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/inspace.htm
* If Existence is a Game, Here Are The Rules:
  http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/exist.htm
* The Political Correctness Game (preliminary draft)
  http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/pcgame.htm
* Fun And Games With Gerbils, Cool-Whip and Dildos:
  http://www.sonic.net/~ric/go/gerbils.htm
 
For completely nonsensical reasons, I'm refraining from writing new songs
for a few days, so http://mymusic.da.ru isn't bloating further. For now.
And I may even put a few MP3s online in the next few weeks. Could happen...
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  "Cult de sac: a dying religion"




SKEPTINEWS resurrected, sorta

Thursday, March 14, 2002 01:44 p.m. P.D.T.

All right, I just can't stay away from this stuff, and it's too tedious to process the non-bulletins for inclusion on SkeptiLog, so they're coming back here. Simplified. Less frequent. Less obsessed. But here. The first few dozen will be backdated; and for other historical items, see SkeptiLog, eh? Enjoy.




SkeptiNews, half-resurrected...

Tuesday, February 27, 2001 03:01 p.m. P.D.T.

OK, I admit that I can't quit this entirely. I'm doing some short pieces, collections of observations, that may superficially resemble the bulletins, but not on any regular basis. You can get them in real-time by subscribing to SkeptiChat, or you can see them on the Web (when I get around to moving them here) at http://skeptilog.pitas.com
Check it out, if you dare. --Ric




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Sunday, November 5, 2000 09:43 a.m. P.D.T.

 
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