9.29.2000

Electronic fabric
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9.21.2000

Are mobile phones safe? - will your cell cause brain cancer? Maybe... maybe not...
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9.19.2000

Build your own spaceship - if you've got a half mil lying around, you can get a spaceship kit and do-it-yourself! It's called the "Kitten". Aww... gee!
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9.18.2000

Money Origami is cool.
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Find out why fellow journalists and television producers refuse to work with ABC News correspondent John Stossel.
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The New York Times recently reported "Iraq Won't Let Outside Experts Assess Sanctions' Impact on Lives." And yet, there are hundreds of outside experts in Iraq, who have been collecting this data for years! And, that information is available in the UN briefing that the NY Times used for their story! What is up with that?! I'm sure Secretary General Kofi Annan must be feeling really frustrated with the U.S. Press. For example, back in august 1999 the poor guy wrote a 104 paragraph briefing on the oil for food program, it contained two paragraphs of criticism. The NY Times wrote an entire article on those two paragraphs, totally ignoring all positive comments and praise. By the way, the same reporter wrote both stories. Her name is Barbara Crossette and I hope she's ashamed of the disservice her poor reporting does for both the United States and Iraq. The "lack of ethics" factor here is pretty big.
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9.17.2000

St. Seraphim Church is very beautiful. You can get a tour of the interior at the annual "Glendi: International Food Festival". There are some great frescos inside. Plus, you can great food at the fest, including the only Eritrean food available in sonoma county! Sure wish we could get that stuff around here regularly...
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9.15.2000

This Week's Horoscopes from the Onion.

Pisces: (Feb. 19--March 20)
Remember: Sometimes you just have to step back, take a deep breath, give yourself a shake, and blow off the top of your head with Dad's old shotgun.
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A message from the Dalai Lama for the Millennium Peace Summit (emphasis is mine).

"Dear Brothers and Sisters,

"I join in spirit the more than 1,000 religious and spiritual leaders around the world who will gather at the United Nations to attend the Millennium World Peace Summit to discuss ways to engage the power of religion to create a more peaceful world. While wishing the historic summit and the eminent participants every success in their deliberations, I take this opportunity to share with you a few thoughts of mine.

"I think it is a wonderful idea to employ the wisdom of ages to make our common future more peaceful and to discuss ways to ensure that rather than dividing us the power of religion will make us into a family of peace-makers.

"I see all the different religious traditions as paths for the development of inner peace which is the true foundation of world peace. These ancient traditions come to us as a gift from our common past. Will we continue to cherish it as a gift and hand it over to the future generations as a legacy of our shared desire for peace or will we turn it into another weapon that will snatch away the future of the coming generations? The choice we will make is obvious. What needs detailed discussion is how we can ensure that different religions of the world can become powerful allies of peace.

"In order to do this, the different faiths need to develop mutual respect for and understanding of each other's beliefs and values. The world's religions can contribute to world peace if there is peace and growing harmony between the different faiths. It would be sad and tragic if inter-religious rivalry and conflict undermines world peace in the 21st century. In this regard, I have always encouraged and supported efforts towards better understanding among our different faiths. It is my firm belief that this better understanding will enhance the ability of different faiths to make positive contributions to world peace. In this respect, the religious and spiritual leaders of different faiths can play a pivotal role by making a sustained effort to explain to their respective followers the importance of respecting the beliefs and traditions of other faiths. We need to embrace the spirit of pluralism in the field of religions as well.

"It is also my belief that whereas the 20th century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the 21st century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will be a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities. The nations and peoples of the world will soon realise that dialogue and compromise are the best methods of settling differences for mutual benefit and for the sake of our future and the future of our much ravished and fragile planet.

"However, there can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

"The world's spiritual and religious leaders need to address these real and pressing issues and find ways to contribute towards their elimination. These are the enemies of peace and true tyrannies of our times.

"In conclusion I would like to share with you a prayer composed by Shanti Deva, an 11th century Indian Buddhist master, in the hope that it will provide you the same inspiration and determination as it continues to give to me.

"For as long as space endures, And for as long as sentient beings remain, Until then may I, too, abide To dispel the misery of the world.

"With my prayers and good wishes,
Tenzin Gyatso"
August 23, 2000
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"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down."
- Edward O. Wilson
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"...it will also be the first consumer OS based on a solid Unix foundation."
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9.13.2000

"There is chaos in our world, both within the countries' borders and beyond. Blind laws are offered like divine norms that would bring peace, order, well being and the security our planet so badly needs. That is what they would have us believe."

"Three dozen developed and wealthy nations that monopolize the economic, political and technological power have joined us in this gathering to offer more of the same recipes that have only served to make us poorer, more exploited and more dependent."

"There is not even discussion about a radical reform of this old institution over a half century ago when there were few independent nations -- to turn it into a true representative body of the interests of all the peoples on Earth, an institution where no one would have the irritating and anti-democratic right of veto and where a transparent process could be undertaken to expand membership and representation in the Security Council, an executive body subordinated to the General Assembly, which should be the one making the decisions on such crucial issues as intervention and the use of force."

"It should be clearly stated that the principle of sovereignty cannot be sacrificed to an abusive and unfair order that a hegemonic superpower uses, together with its own might and strength, to try to decide everything by itself. That, Cuba will never accept."

"The poverty and underdevelopment prevailing in most nations as well as the inequality in the distribution of wealth and knowledge in the world are basically at the source of the present conflicts."

"It cannot be overlooked that current underdevelopment and poverty have resulted from conquest, colonization, slavery and plundering in most countries of the planet by the colonial powers and from the emergence of imperialism and the bloody wars motivated by new distributions of the world. Today, it is their moral obligation to compensate our nations for the damages caused throughout centuries."

"Humanity should be aware of what we have been so far and what we cannot continue to be. Presently, our species has enough accumulated knowledge, ethical values and scientific resources to move towards a new historical era of true justice and humanism. There is nothing in the existing economic and political order that can serve the interests of Humankind."

"Thus, it is unsustainable and it must be changed. Suffice it to say that the world population is already 6 billion, 80% of which live in poverty. Ages-old diseases from Third World nations such as malaria, tuberculosis and others equally lethal have not been eradicated while new epidemics like AIDS threaten to exterminate the population of entire nations."

"On the other hand, wealthy countries keep investing enormous amounts of money in the military and in luxurious items and a voracious plague of speculators exchange currencies, stocks and other real or fictitious values for trillions of dollars every day."

"Nature is being devastated. The climate is changing under our own eyes and drinking water is increasingly contaminated or scarce. The sources of man's seafood are being depleted and crucial non-renewable resources are wasted in luxury and triviality."

"Anyone understands that the United Nations basic role in the pressing new century is to save the world not only from war but also from underdevelopment, hunger, diseases, poverty and the destruction of the natural resources indispensable to human life. And it should do so promptly before it is too late!"

"The dream of having truly fair and sensible rules to guide human destiny seems impossible to many. However, we are convinced that the struggle for the impossible should be the motto of this institution that brings us together today!"

Thank you.
President Fidel Castro's Address to the UN Millenium Summit in NY on Wednesday
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9.11.2000

A Guide to Bushspeak includes such fabulous utterances as, "an economically vile hemisphere."
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9.4.2000

Lucid dreaming and how to do it.
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I'm Jesus Christ. I'm a messiah. This is my story.
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High percentage of vacationing Americans stay connected with office Americans... they just don't get the whole vacation racket.
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Drive Different with the iCar from Chris3D.
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