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  The Last Refuse of the Incompetent
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*   Week's Weather
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  Past tense across the outlying districts today and tonight. City center will be imperfect, tending towards the perfect and future perfect. Tomorrow would be entirely subjunctive, but for irregular pronouns and traces of a gendered declension system. Expect sudden vocative episodes on Thursday, fading overnight, followed by Germanic tendencies as an agglutinative word formation rolls in over the weekend.

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*   City Features
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  Some hack-graffitist has been creating persistent-field applications that live off the power lines. The apps -- toys, vehicles, mock-life, what you will -- look like stylized, brightly-colored birds suspended between parallel wires. They feed off induced electromagnetic currents, and are in constant motion, zipping throughout the City wherever power is run on overhead lines. (Making cheery "zip" noises as they go. Plus additional squawks and bleeps when they pass each other on the wires.)

The "zippy-birds" draw very little power, and have not been seen to interfere with any legitimate application. They do not appear to be self-replicating -- at least, their numbers have not increased exponentially, as would be expected of a virus app. They seem to be released from several generator apps placed around the City. Field Safety is attempting to track down the sources and the author, but has not issued a statement about whether the apps will be removed from the system.

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*   Legal Minutiae
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  The orange car wrangle continues, as orange car devotees continue to flout the vehicular sumptuary laws. Photographic mixtures of red and yellow dots have long since been banned, as have yellow filter fields over red paint, blue-green-tuned antireflec, and most other surfaces that could be mistaken for an orange emergency vehicle. The orange car loyalists are now experimenting with red and yellow stripes of varying widths. Dedicated effort (and willingness to pay fines) has produced a thicket of rulings, which now distinguishes minimum legal stripe width for vertical stripes, horizontal stripes, stripes on the side of the vehicle, stripes on the front of the vehicle, zip-zag stripes, wavy stripes...

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*   Religious Expression
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  The Holy Order of the Acts of God has donated fifteen million credits to the cause of recovering dinosaur DNA, with the eventual goal of cloning live dinosaurs.

The University has been making slow progress on this project for a decade now, ever since holographic molecular analysis became viable. DNA cannot be recovered directly from fossils, because fossils do not retain any traces of organic molecules. However, the deposition patterns formed by carbonate and silicate molecules during petrifaction are minutely and indirectly affected by those lost DNA traces. By analyzing tons of fossil-bed stone, a computer model can slowly coverge on molecules which commonly occurred before fossilization. DNA's regular structure makes it particularly easy to recognize -- or, at least, easier than other organic molecules.

The Holy Order has expressed no motivation for their support of this research. However, it is suggested that once live dinosaurs exist, the Order will take it as a holy duty to stand around throwing rocks at them.

"If God did it," say sources within the Order, "we should do it as well. For we are made in His image."

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*   Life of the Mind
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