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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:53 AM
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== Wi-Fi, the death of us all = By Mark Morford

You are going to die. Wireless gizmos are devouring your brain, right now. Very sorry

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/10/17/notes101707.DTL&nl=fix

It goes like this: We are all made of energy, electromagnetic waves and harmonic vibrations and a zillion throbbing electro-particles pulsing and spinning in quietly charged fields, all manner of happy ions floating in micro oceans of water and blood and vodka and we are humming and singing in what is ostensibly some sort of perfect divine balance of harmony and love and rainbow-shaped joy.

And then, life happens. Progress. Technology. Cars and light bulbs and microwaves and cell phones and iPods and giant orange variable-speed KitchenAid blenders, all causing a billion invisible radioactive bolts to zing through the air like ghosts of sad destiny, like imperceptible projectiles of doom, all invariably disrupting our precious bodily vibes and penetrating our cell structures and molesting our brain waves and sending us cartwheeling toward early cancer and death and decay and really lousy Internet connectivity at the goddamn airport.

This, you might say, is the downside of existing. Everything we create wants to kill us. Everything we invent or lick or insert into our orifices actually erodes our very beings and slowly eats away at our life force and wants us dead dead dead because, well, this is just the way it works: You're born, gravity grabs hold and it's pretty much all downhill from there. And God went, shrug.

The best part of all: The list of dangers gets longer by the minute. ...
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 07:57 AM
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1. He forgot we are all mostly water and the Moon causes tides and is screwing up our bodies :-)
:-)
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-17-07 08:00 AM
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2. Can't happen soon enough for me. n/t
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