8.30.2000

From The Onion:

Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs: 'Oh, Shit,' Says Humanity

Here's a quote from this important article, "I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, 'Holy fuck,'" said Oceanographic Institute director Dr. James Aoki, noting that the dolphin has a cranial capacity 40 percent greater than that of humans. "That's it for us monkeys."
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8.29.2000

Hua Mei, the baby panda at the San Diego Zoo, just turned one year old. Check out the nifty birthday cards kids sent her!
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8.28.2000

Chem and Bio Weapons Tests on US Citizens

"The Army has acknowledged that between 1949 and 1969, 239 populated areas from coast to coast were blanketed with various organisms during tests designed to measure patterns of dissemination in the air, weather effects, dosages, optimum placement of the source and other factors. Testing over such areas was supposedly suspended after 1969, but there is no way to be certain of this."

From William Blum's Rogue State
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8.27.2000

Fun With Lighters will show you "how to modify an ordinary cigarette lighter to produce a giant ball of flaming molten death".
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8.26.2000

Awhile back, I talked smack about digital smell technology. Now it's time to make fun of feel technology.
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TRUSTe, a privacy advocate organization that runs a privacy seal-of-approval program for retail Web sites and shows companies how to write effective privacy policies, itself has tracked users with means not mentioned in its own privacy policy, a security group says. Yeesh.
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More action you can take to open up the debates!
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Here's a little action you can take, if you're tired of listening to just democrats and republicans debate.
posted 8/26/2000 (link me, baby)
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I was just remembering my first entry in blogblog. I took the opportunity to express my delight at the fact that my mom didn't have brain cancer, she'd already been diagnosed with lung cancer. Well, the lung cancer finally killed her in June. How I love my mom and how I miss her.
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8.24.2000

Engineers discover procedure that can make tissue temporarily transparent, potentially improving medical procedures Yes, it's true, they can make a small piece of flesh transparent for a short period of time. Amazing, eh? Imagine being able to check out a damaged organ or a tumor or anything before doing surgery!
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Lightning strike triggered by a flying airplane Holy moly!
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8.23.2000

Yes, there is a TrekSmut University Web Ring, in case you were wondering. If you're into that sort of thing, check out Jungle Kitty's Lair.
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8.22.2000

Outrageous Commercials... including a cold cream commercial that has the poor model's face covered in radioactive dirt!
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Star Wars Gangsta Rap Movie
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8.20.2000

Read Michael Moore's latest message: Mike's Message 08/08/00.

Here's an excerpt:
"Of course, not to beat a dead Corvair, there is a candidate who is now, according to Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" last Sunday, polling between 11% and 15% in some surveys, and has chosen a woman as his running mate. His name is Ralph Nader and HER name is Winona LaDuke. She is a Harvard graduate from Minnesota and a Native American. She has a bunch of wild ideas women usually come up with, the kinds of things that probably keep them off the other tickets -- like, everybody should be guaranteed insurance if they get sick, or working moms and kids deserve day care, or maybe we shoud build a few less submarines in Connecticut and build a few new schools in the Bronx. Stuff like that. Chick stuff, ya know. Stuff us guys ain't got time for."

-Michael Moore
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Fabulous passage from "Rogue State," by William Blum:

In 1998, the State Department issued its annual human-rights report, listing Cuba amongst those nations alleged to "sponsor terrorism". Curious about this, I called up the State Department and was connected to what they called "The Terrorism Desk", where a gentleman named Joe Reap told me that Cuba was included because "They harbor terrorists."

"So does the United States," I replied. "The Cuban exiles in Miami have committed hundreds of terrorist acts, in the US and abroad."

Mr. Reap exploded. "Sir," he cried in a rising voice, "that is a fatuous remark and I will not listen to such nonsense!" And he hung up.

Unrepentant trouble-maker that I am, the following year, May 4, 1999 to be exact, when the new human-rights report was issued (does the word "self-righteous" ring a bell with the folks at the State Department?), I again called 202-647-8682, and again 'twas Joe Reap who answered. I doubt he knew that I was the same caller as the year before but, in any event, we went through the same dance steps. When I repeated my comment about the Cuban terrorists being harbored in Miami, he became instantly indignant and said that they were not terrorists.

"But the FBI has labeled some of them just that," I said. "Then take it up with the FBI," said Joe. "But we're discussing a State Department report," I pointed out.

His voice rising..."I will not listen to people call this government a terrorist sponsor!" Phone slammed down. The intervening year had not mellowed ol' Joe any more than it had me.

It's always fascinating to observe how a True Believer reacts to a sudden, unexpected and unanswerable threat to his fundamental ideological underpinnings.

The Cuban exiles are in fact one of the longest lasting and most prolific terrorist groups in the world, and they're still at it. During 1997 they carried out a spate of hotel bombings in Havana, directed from Miami.

- William Blum, Rogue State
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From FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting - Media Unconcerned as LAPD Attacks Peaceful Crowd, Harasses IMC
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The ACLU of Washington's report on the WTO protests in Seattle: Out of Control: Seattle's Flawed Response to Protests Against the World Trade Organization.
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I just love Lexx! Check out the Sad-geezers Guide to LEXX. I'm so happy that I scored a bunch of episodes from a guy off ebay. Yay! Yes, there are a few drawbacks to living in a no-television zone. Actually, it's a we-get-no-reception-and-cable-will-destroy-my-life zone.
posted 8/20/2000 (link me, baby)
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In case you were wondering what the Garden Gnome Liberation Front is up to.
posted 8/20/2000 (link me, baby)
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What a relief... the Kansas State Board of Education gets to keep its Ig! "An Ig is forever."
posted 8/20/2000 (link me, baby)
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Middle East Peace Solution from the AIR: Annals of Improbable Research. "The Panel was directed to disregard abstract philosophical quantities such as money and human life."
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8.19.2000

"... the U.C.L.A. team says it has succeeded in using a molecule to create an electronic switch that can be reconfigured -- that is, it can be turned on and off, and on again -- like a transistor." I sense teeny, tiny electronic devices...
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Developers of Linux Software Planning Assault on Microsoft. As the KoDT would say, "Hoody hoo!"
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US women exceed men on net
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Linux powered PDA!
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100 times faster than dsl?
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Patrick Crispen is great at explaining stuff. He runs the Internet TourBus. Here's his explanation of PayPal.
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8.9.2000

Chew Chew, the gastrobot
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8.4.2000

The Oz Witch Project and The Wicked Witch Project
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8.2.2000

Accidental Hanging With Delayed Death in a Lift...eh?
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Yes, Hua Mei has her own video! And yes, I already own it.
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Interested in PGP? Check out Tom McCune's PGP Questions & Answers.
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Shower is a film from China. It looks pretty keen and it's playing locally here in sonoma county at the fab Rialto Cinemas!
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8.1.2000

Check out Tammy's Faves and Tips Galore! It's the icon with the check mark. Some advice from Tammy, "Don't EVER go out without lipstick. It brightens your face and gives you a happy look. I'm torn whether to advise on lip-liner. I use Estée Lauder. A lot of people get on to me and say lip-liner should match the lipstick.

Whatever."

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