Alien Abduction, How To Prevent. Study this, take notes, carry it around with you all the time, be prepared:

‘When you are abducted, it is your energy-body that is taken, not your
physical. This is similar to out-of-body projection except that it is
forced. Out of body travelers get back simply by thinking “Go physical,
now” or “Return to physical body” or similar. Return is always instant…
If you find yourself in the middle of an abduction, remember above then
think (say if you can) forcefully to yourself (not them; you don’t care
about them) with all the conviction you ever have mustered:
“IN THE NAME OF GOD, CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT, I DEMAND IN MY PHYSICAL
BODY!!! NOW!!!”

The abductors (the greys, Nordics or whatever) may respond with “We
don’t care about your God! Resistance is useless!” or something like that.
You could retort, “Aw shaddup! Who asked you!?”
Be MEAN! Be a bad-ass mother-****!

But anyway, best to just IGNORE THEM! No matter what they say or what
kind of high-pitched noise they make; continue saying it or thinking it
to the exclusion of everything else until it works. Say it ten times, a
hundred times, a THOUSAND TIMES! DEMAND IT!!!’

Turn-off: Motorola has found a way to render electronic devices useless if illegally exported. A chip is embedded in the device linked to a GPS or a recognized national broadcast signal. New Scientist

New E-Mail Will Be Personalized. Its promoters think this arrangement to attach animated faces to email to convey the emotion of the writer will be the next “killer app”, even though it’s little better — or perhaps less effective — than those silly little “emoticons” no one’s used for years. The developers of this system trumpet that it will fulfill the potential of the Internet, and they’re right — it may very well complete the move to the complete banality of e-communication! Oh, and let’s not forget its potential applicability to e-commerce, via the creation of “virtual sales clerks… to answer all your questions and take your orders”. Actually, I wish that I had the capacity to attach an animated face to this message right now, just this once — if it could adequately convey disdain.

“A world that sees dead babies’
organs being cannibalised still has need of the
vampire.” New Statesman

“What are the prospects for a multiracial coalition emerging on the right? George W. Bush’s campaign efforts to court voters of
color, as well as the spectacle of inclusion and diversity at last summer’s Republican National Convention, have made this issue all
the more pressing. Widely denounced as an illusion, the ‘rainbow’ convention did raise two important and interrelated questions:
what can the right offer to minorities, and what can minorities do for the right?” Dissent Magazine

Super Vision: ‘Today, vision correction is only for people with
poor eyesight. But soon even people with good
eyesight will be able to experience enhanced vision.
A technology that astronomers call “adaptive
optics,” used to enhance telescopes’ views of the
heavens, will allow ophthalmologists to improve
people’s vision well beyond the “perfect” 20/20.’ Popular Science

Hindu Extremists Block Christian Aid to India’s Earthquake Victims. They are apparently harassing Western relief agency representatives, some of them Christian missionaries; refusing to allow distribution unless victims or refugees — some of them Muslim — acknowledge Hindu deities; and are hijacking goods to redistribute themselves.

(You)2: interview with anonymous molecular biologist with the ambition and, apparently the means, to be the first to clone a human. Wired

Scientists work out best way to crack egg Ananova

Curry craving lead to round-the-world takeaway trip. Ordered from a takeout in Newcastle, delivered to Sydney four days later. Ananova

Calls for Rushdie’s death renewed. While the fatwa, or death edict, issued against Rushdie on February 14, 1989 for alleged blasphemy against Islam in his book The Satanic Verses has largely lapsed, it cannot be rescinded because under Islamic law only its author can do so; the Ayatollah Khomeini has since died. Now one hard-line Islamic daily observed the twelfth anniversary of the edict by renewed calls for Rushdie’s death.

The daily said in an editorial that Rushdie’s move to the
United States would make his killing easier, saying his
new location offered “more possibilities of executing this
traitor in America.”

The foundation that funded the $2.8 million bounty on Rushdie’s head affirmed that it would be paid with interest to anyone enforcing the decree. Salon

Battlefield rules in Razzies’ list of bad flicks: the 21st annual Golden Raspberry Award nominees for worst films of the year are out. The winners are announced the day before the Academy Awards. CNN

Does Vivaldi Deserve to be Looked Down Upon So? New Yorker

Inhaled Insulin Could Replace Injections, aerosols could be available in 2-3 years.

Rocky picture show as movie theaters fade to black. Shakeout in the movie theater industry; they just built too many megaplexes, it’s said. The bankruptcy of Loew’s will take out alot of the screens I frequent in Boston, most lamented will be the Nickelodeon art theater.