User:Woozle/2008
Link Dump
Links I haven't had time to file properly
2008-12-19
- 2008-12-04 Practical Skepticism Books
- 2008-12-16 CHRISTIANS and ATHIESTS WELCOMED
- RSS feed validator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 . Notes on the State of Virginia
- The Goat Patrol
- 2008-09-23 McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac
- 2008-09-17 McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing
- 2008-09-07 Texas Republican Has Had Enough: horrified by Palin
- 2008-09-13 White Power: The Republican Base: Obama as Aunt Jemima, and with towel-head
- McCainPedia: Count the Lies
- 2008-09-16 Foolish Planetariums
- SmokePing
- PublicMarkup.org
- Global Guerrillas
- MediaWiki OpenID extension
- 2002-09 Healthcare reform: Deja Vu all over again - FYI
- 2008-09-05 Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio
- 2007-05-17 Greg Palast, Author of Armed Madhouse, on How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Election
- 2008-09-07 It's not just 600,000 in Ohio: LA, FL, MI, KS, NM, CO, and NV
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
2008-12-16
- 2008-12-09 Two Worldviews - A History, Two Ideal Family Models and The Role of Empathy
- 2008-04-24 Hulu aims to outfox rival TV websites
- 2008-05-08 Universal to allow free music downloads
- 2008-10-22 500 Block of East Main about to come down: see comments section for negative opinions of Ellen Reckhow and Becky Heron regarding historic preservation
- 2008-10-13 25 Arguments for the Elimination of Copy Protection
- 2008-10-07 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy: the media industry is creative -- they invent numbers
- 2008-07-02 Women Say Economy Factors in Abortions: "Forty Percent of Minnesota Women Getting Abortions Cited Financial Concerns"
- 2008-10-13 No opt-out of filtered Internet: not sure what the final decision was
- Cohousing Directory: do I have this listed in htyp?
- Medicaid Waver: Home and Community Based Services Waiver: can we get permission to copy this to htyp?
- Alternative Living Arrangements: same for this
- 2007-12-13 Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
- 2008-07 Distracting Miss Daisy: JERS's Atlantic article
- 2008-08-28 In Praise of the Gyratory Circus includes commentary on the aforementioned
- 2008-06-10 Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do: some related discussion; a commenter mentions the JERS Atlantic article
- Google for "+staddon +traffic" for more
- 2008-10-05 Four-way stops must be outlawed in Minnesota: and even Pharyngula gets into the zeitgeist...
- 2005-11-18 Al Qaeda – The Database
- GraphViz test page from Tene
- 2008-10-02 Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids
- Autism Support and Advocacy Center: seems to be a paid-only service
- Native American Times
- 2006-02-20 Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK
- 2008-10-02 Why youTube buckled to islam ???
- 2008-10-02 Condell’s attack on shariah law in the UK blocked by YouTube
- THE NAVAJO NATION PEACEMAKING PROGRAM
- 2008-09-27 A Genuine and Immediate Crisis by William Kristol
- 2008-10-01 The Conservative Case for Unlimited Deposit Insurance
- YouTube Allows Videos of Eucharistic Desecration (can't find date)
2008-12-15
- 2008-12-06 Unusual Suggestions: Radical Transparency: cf issuepedia:Open Government and see if anyone ever responded to my last comment...
- 2008-12-06 How the Credit Crisis Will Change the Way America Does Business
- MS Outlook PST viewers:
- OEMailRecovery: recovery & repair
- Mail Navigator PST Reader
- google:pst+file+reader
- How to Change the World by David Bornstein
- Ashoka "innovators for the public"
- Declaration4Independence and here
- Cheddar: a bot which apparently works with dAmnChat
- requires Mono 1.2.5.1, but as of yet only Mono 1.0 is easily available in Ubuntu
- 2008-11-27 Mumbai Attacks: Twitter Adds to the Noise but Is Still Valuable: see also text of saved Twitter Mumbai page
- 2007-10-16 On the notion of faith
- 2008-07 Electro-Shock Therapy: Atlantic article about the GM Volt
- 2005-12-30 Government & Economics 101—Deconstructing Holman Jenkins’ “Prius Follies”
- 2008-11-12 Obama's Car Puzzle
- 2008-11-14 Militant Atheism
- Extension:GraphViz: but is GraphViz available on L48.net? Is it commonly installed?
- Debate:Is Obama a Muslim? - did I ever link to this from issuepedia:Barack Obama/Muslim smear?
- 2008-10-30 Newt Gingrich: Let's End Adolescence
- Mormons Stole Our Rights: Proposition 8
- 2008-10-30 Principles for a better Web
- GNU FDL 1.3
- 2008-10-28 Obama's 'Redistribution' Constitution
- 2008-10-27 The Age of Prosperity Is Over: the inventor of the Laffer Curve recommends panicking
- 2008-10-22 Scholars for 9-11 Truth & Justice Misrepresented in Draft Bill Sent to 8 House Members
- 2008-10-24 Landmark E. Howard Hunt JFK Confession Video Tape Ignored
- 2008-10-23 Conscientiousness is the secret to a long life
- 2000-07-11 The Atlantic’s cover shows the schoolboy level to which our discourse has fallen.
- 2008-10-23 Ex-GOP operative tells cautionary tale about 'how to rig an election'
- 2008-10-22 Oil ends at 16-month low
2008-11-07
- 2008-10-30 How Techies Can Improve Democracy and Governance: interview with Silona Bonewald on a lot of InstaGov-related topics
- National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
- Transparent Federal Budget: paragraph-by-paragraph collaborative analysis of the federal budget
- They Rule: the individuals behind the corporations
- Reuniting America: finding points of agreement between people in radically different parts of the political spectra (might they take on something like the Interfaith Treaty?)
2008-11-06
- 2008-11-03 Magnetic shield for spacefarers: for eventual htyp:space travel page
- The Open Cognition Project wiki
- OpenSimulator wiki: cyberlife-related
2008-09-27
- How We Became the United States of France: nationalizing the financial system and major industries
- McCain Wins Debate before it is even held -- signaling his disregard for the whole process?
2008-09-21
- Daughters Without Borders
- Knowingly Unchecked Aggression: Private Military Contractors in Iraq
- Current Battery Technology and Fully Electric Vehicles: A Review
- Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
- Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber
- Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling?
- Greenspan: This Is The Worst Economy I've Ever Seen
- McCain: No, Obama Didn't Call Palin A Pig
- Lindsay Lohan And Sam Ronson Criticize Sarah Palin: "Narrow Minded, Media Obsessed Homophobe"
- A Rising Tide Lifts Mood in the Developing World
- Obama and desperation: an analogy from Wall Street
- Who Should Pay for Science? by JERS
- Blog: Obama and the Palin Effect
- WAR IS A RACKET
- An Open Letter to All Republicans From a Former Religious Right Activist
- Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism
- GOP operative: Rove has ‘consistent, medium-sized role with the McCain campaign.’
- WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? by Jon Haidt
- The Fannie Mae Gang
- wikipedia:Angoor Ada raid
- When Atheists Attack: A noted provocateur rips Sarah Palin—and defends elitism.
- Australian company launches 3D Internet tool
- Science unveils hidden drivers of stock bubbles and crashes: apparently we've finally come around to the idea that investors don't always act rationally, which may affect models of how the stock market works just a bit
- Casting Light: Tony Fisk's blog about open voting systems
2008-09-15
- http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
- http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=Sarah+Palin&getit=Go&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0
- http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp -- the book-banning quote is rather massively out of context
- http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/palin.asp -- gun-totin' and bikini shots are faked
- http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/sarahpalin.asp -- Alaskan opinions
- http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/sarahpalin2.asp -- more opinions
- http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/newsquotes.asp -- some false quotes
- http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/newsquotes.asp -- "Sambo" quote can't be verified
2008-09-11
The problem is this.
(Just grabbing part of the quoted essay; I'll get to Hanson's concluding sentence in a bit.)
If we try to formulate a scientific hypothesis which allows for the possibility of "divine intervention", then you have to define divine intervention.
I think it's probably reasonable to define it as "any occurrence where the laws of science are clearly violated".
(If that isn't at least a superset of "divine intervention", then my subsequent argument will collapse... but I'll need another definition to work with.)
(In other words: no fair saying you need to include something in a hypothesis but then refusing to define it. But onward...)
If the laws of science are violated, that means that not only do we not *currently* understand how it could happen, we can *never* understand how it happened -- can *never* arrive at a set of rules which, if followed, would inevitably cause the same occurrence.
Well, first off, science is based on the idea that (1) the universe operates according to laws, (2) those laws are *never* broken, (3) we can discover those laws through hypothesis and experiment, and (4) we revise our interpretations of those laws as our understanding gets more and more perfect (5) we do not need to have a perfect understanding in order to have an accurate understanding.
So right away you've broken rule #2 by allowing for divine intervention; you *cannot* have a scientific hypothesis which allows laws which aren't always followed.
The only way you could have divine intervention as part of a scientific hypothesis is by redefining "divine" as something subject to scientific analysis.
E.g. if God plays a part in "the divine miracle of life", we should be able to see the laws of chemistry being violated during egg fertilization.
And secondly (and more to the point), science seeks to explain phenomena in ways that are reproducible.
So, yeah, okay, we can't make a sun or a planet in the laboratory. But we can look at all the things we think are at work in the making of a sun or a planet, and we can do experiments to see if they work the way we think they do.
"If you subject hydrogen to enough pressure at a high enough temperature, do you really get stupendous amounts of energy?" And yes, you do. (To vastly oversimplify the process of atomic fusion.)
Saying "God did it" is not just irreproducible, it's fucking *undefined*.
And totally not science.
But anyway, on to Hanson's final sentence...
He's conflating two things: (1) are these things too silly for a well-educated person (especially a professional scientist) to consider? Hell yes. (2) Are these things too silly to be worth bringing up in the context of teaching critical thinking to children? Hell no.
So yeah, I'd be all in favor of using these things as examples in a science-based course on critical thinking.
The problem is, US public schools don't teach critical thinking.
They're still geared towards turning out assembly-line labor for the mills. They teach kids facts, and both kids and teachers (and school systems) are rewarded *only* for how well the kids regurgitate those facts.
Our school system is, at present, far too blunt an instrument for conveying anything as subtle as "here are some hypotheses; can you work out what's right and wrong about them?"
Not only that, but ID proponents aren't even asking for this level of subtlety; they *want* ID taught as "equally valid" with evolution.
So there are two reasons not to teach it: (1) inadequate schools, and (2) the proposal is to teach something that is false as truth.
And finally, Hanson shows his lack of research on the ID issue when he conflates it with UFOs and ghosts. Nobody is *trying* to get those taught in the schools. It's not an issue.
ID is dangerous -- not because it threatens to expose children to "competing ideas" which might undermine their "faith in science" or some such rot, but because it is being weaselled in inaccurately and dishonestly in an effort to (further) corrupt our educational system.
2008-09-05
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html
- http://fairlyconservative.com/the-race-for-president/a-chat-with-anne-kilkenny-from-alaska/ Anne Kilkenny on Sarah Palin
- http://www.examiner.com/x-775-Political-Issues-Examiner~y2008m9d3-Behind-the-Viral-Email-on-Sarah-Palin?comments=true#comments - claims letter is fake
- http://www.washingtonindependent.com/3671/the-reform-candidate -- another article, but includes the above letter in the comments
- http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/glance.htm -- is this already filed under issuepedia:US economy?
- http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/disagreement-is.html
- How the hell can conservatives complain about disagreement not being hateful when they call it treasonous?? ...and when their "disagreement" takes the forms of hate-killings, harassment, and laws designed to destroy that with which they oh-so-politely "disagree"??
- http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122039890722392873-lMyQjAxMDI4MjAwNDMwOTQ4Wj.html -- cherry-picking
- the us spends more than anyone else on healthcare but our outcomes are worse... and the last line is the old "uninsured can go to the ER if they're sick" euphemized... it's a long list of meaningless statistics, cherry picking and false comparisons what a fucking snowjob... income and wealth distribution
- sourcewatch:Keith Marsden
- http://www.mediatakeout.com/users/carmel666/45396/lies_told_at_the_republican_national_convention -- copy of Yahoo News / AP article, but less likely to be taken down
- the Lost Views of Sarah Palin
- http://www.woottonandwootton.com/whatwedo.html -- debt counseling
- The Casio Terrorist Watch
- Presidential Science Debate 2008: will McCain answer?
- Islam's war on freedom (Pat Condell)
- Tech for sustainability wikis: maybe in Community Portal of Issuepedia? (note: check interwiki link, update if needed; is htwiki's the same as issuepedia's?)
- Henry Rollins on evolution: for issuepedia:evolution
- http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/29/palin.republican.vp.candidate/ - the announcement
- http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-7-9/73205.html -- this page sometimes goes 404; I saved a copy
- http://www.ourfuture.org/report/progressive-majority
- Denver Democratic Convention Protesters chant "F**k Fox News!!!" ON LIVE TV
- Barack Obama 'ought to be shot' says racist plotter
2008-08-24
- wikipedia:Journal for Geoclimatic Studies - global-warming deniers get taken in by a hoax, demonstrating their will to believe anything that supports their position even if it's junk
2008-08-23
- http://ptable.com - insanely interactive periodic table
- http://www.rawa.org/events/apr28-07_e.htm "The American forces act so reckless and hasty in killing innocent civilians everyday, that they seem to have come here for taking revenge of the 3,000 victims of the 9/11 from the people rather than to targeting the terrorist of their own creation, the Taliban. The death toll of these innocents throughout Afghanistan is now much higher than that of 9/11. This has indeed provoked and enraged the wrath of the people, encouraging the Taliban terrorists, who definitely receive the maximum benefits." (emphasis mine)
2008-08-22
2008-08-20
- http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/08/encryption_privacy_and_you.php
- http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php
- http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/mn06/
- http://biologistshelpingbookstores.blogspot.com/
- http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-fuck-can-i-possibly-say.html
- possible fodder for an essay or blog entry or something
- http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/09/straight.htm
- There: another Second Life?
- Facts For Fundamentalists: even Christian beliefs are being misrepresented
- Features of a good government? john adams?
- Davey & Goliath
- Avast, Me Hearties! Here Be Rational Profit Maximizers!
- Pearls Before Breakfast
- Why the US isn't a "Christian Nation": reading material
- wikipedia:Ontological argument: Kind of like drawing a map in green ink and then arguing that the streets must be green because the map says they are
- A Declaration for Independence: reading material
- PLoS ONE: is this kind of like PsyCrit?
- SCIENCE PUBS REJECT ARTICLES WRITTEN IN WORD 2007
- Milton Friedman: Killing America softly with his song
- The Handmaid's Tale: Fact or Fiction?
- Bill Hicks video
- Framing is Back
- Modern Aftermath of the Crusades: the Crusades weren't really all that bad?
- When religion goes berserk!
- http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/07/poli-miscellany.html
- Solar Flare Intermittency and the Earth’s Temperature Anomalies
- Netroots Nation Keynote: Lessig video
- Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs
- A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute
- http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/07/christian-prote.html
- http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/13570.html - article about Extraordinary Ventures
- ROVE NAMED IN ELECTION FRAUD CONSPIRACY
- Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay on '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations, Evidence of Massive Fraud by a Number of GOP Operatives
- It’s just a cracker!
- Lost in a Haystack: "John Pieret over at Thoughts in a Haystack has weighed in on the agnostic/atheist debate with his article "Agnostic About Atheism.""
- Getting Information from Creationists Is Like Pulling Teeth
- http://brtrlaw.com/_wsn/page2.html - John Pieret background
- http://bluecollarscientist.com/2008/05/15/anti-gay-school-earns-a-hard-slapdown/
- http://www.tuibguy.com/?p=304
- http://www.opednews.com/member_submissions.htm "OpEdNews invites you to Submit Your Articles or Diaries,
or Add links to articles on other sites"
- Parsing John Pieret
- http://www.hulu.com/ - has (had?) Firefly
- Teach the controversy!
- http://trianglegreencleaning.com/cleaning_products
- Read what those caring, kind and loving Catholics want to do now!: this is where I posted a brief parody-triplet...
- http://www.notopope.com/news.php
- http://mediamatters.org/items/200805140003?f=s_search Wash. Post, Special Report reported Hagee's apology to Catholics, without noting his other smears]: "In reports about televangelist John Hagee's apology for his anti-Catholic remarks, neither The Washington Post's Michael D. Shear nor Fox News' Brit Hume mentioned that Hagee -- whose endorsement Sen. John McCain has acknowledged seeking -- also has made controversial statements about women, race, homosexuality, and Islam."
- CNN, MSNBC aired Donohue's criticism of Edwards bloggers without noting his bigotry
- New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch
- Three reasons to vote Democratic: 1. They decrease national debt, and GOPers increase it; 2. middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president; 3. comparison of Obama vs. McCain tax on take-home pay
- Phone Call Aversion among Mobile Phone Users: for phone phobia page
- http://letourcongresstweet.org/ - and look at this link, and is there a list of Congresspeople using Twitter?
- Irrationality Squared: did I not ever post a link to this? Should be included in the argument map, anyway.
- The party of Caligula loots the Smithsonian
- Four Reflections On Patriotism
- Don't talk to the police: I kind of want to see what these videos are...
- http://www.debategraph.org/
- A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War By James Thacher
- Solving the climate change attitude mystery
- When corrections fail: the persistence of political misperceptions
- I Think Maybe We Could Use a Handbook: proposal for a booklet for theists on how to talk to atheists (ground rules) -- seems to me we need something more general about basic rules for debate, which they seem not to grasp
- David Broder: Slobbering Half-Wit: filibustering is not a bipartisan problem
- http://www.bea.gov "Table 3.9.1. Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment" (via [1]):
- Bush Jr Grew the National Government by 27.3%
- Clinton Grew the National Government by -10.8%
- Bush Sr. Grew the National Government by 1.6%
- Reagan grew the National Government by 33.9%
- Carter grew the National Government by 11.7%
- And here, Travc said:
- Any good ideas how to create a good hierarchical (or multiple overlaying hierarchies) forum for politics?
- It strikes me that the political/governmental structure in most places is specifically hierarchical. Local politics and issues really should matter more to individuals, but the flat structure of most news/media pushes the focus up to higher levels which impact more people but to a lesser extent.
- We have the technology to do much better.
- http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/05/good-bad-companies-and-vp-choices.html
- What voice was I supposed to read this in?
- And of course this was supposed to be in a David Tennant voice, for Talia.
working on custom RSS feeds
- issuepedia:Help:Feeds/recent links: needs reformatting when RSS feed generator has been modified to allow explicit variables
- issuepedia:Template:Show.link.feed: template for showing a single entry
- HypertWiki:Forms/blog/entry/named
other MW stuff
- mwsite:Extension:Forum extension
- mwsite:Extension:FCKeditor (by FCKeditor and Wikia)
- mwsite:Extension:PageFunctions
- mwsite:Extension:SocialRewarding: probably too crude for what I want, but perhaps useful
- mwsite:Extension:DocumentApproval
- metawm:Top Ten Wikipedias/poll: this is how MW does polls
- metawm:Talk:Interwiki map: do I want to try again to get into this?
vbz.net
I don't remember why I had these pages open, but they should probably be checked if everything seems to be "working":
2008-08-19
- http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/09/fungenevodevo.php
- http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/07/the_neuroscience_of_adhd_1.php
- http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/
- http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/08/science_and_human_rights.php
- http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/07/pz_is_a_gentleman_and_a_schola.php
2008-07-16
2008-07-01
Once again, my ability to find links I Absolutely Must Save outstrips the time in which I have to file them, and extant tabs in Firefox and Konqueror threaten to take over my system RAM...
- 2008-06-30 Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend
- 2008-06-30 American outpost: Beyond the tourist haunts, Alaska is vast and unfamiliar: file in htyp:Alaska (which probably doesn't exist yet)
- 2008-06-30 In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying: not that this will convince ostriches of anything... but it's yet another example of how the media is failing to combat propaganda, probably because they're helping to spread it
- 2008-06-23 FOX News on Republicans shying away from party brand
- commentary: TPM
- 2006-11-30 Animations of urogenital development for gender site
- OpenID developer info
- 2008-06-19 Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government
- The New FISA Bill: A Bad Deal by Senator Russ Feingold
- 2006-11-22 What the hell is an evangelical atheist?
- 2006-08-15 Achieving Representation: about the infamous Iraq Invasion Powerpoint
- 2006-08-08 Death by PowerPoint: and more about it
- 2008-06-29 Book Review: Feld's and Wilcox's "Netroots Rising": Issuepedia needs a "netroots" page, which should include a link to InstaGov
- 2008-06-22 Requiem: "Of all the things I despise about the Bush administration, the one I will forever loathe most is how they made morality a minority position. It was the standard operating procedure of the Bush years that ethics was considered quaint, that pride in government was considered hopelessly idealistic, and that morality was the stuff of starry eyed fools."
- Since the "morality" of torture is now irrelevant, can we also say it's irrelevant with regard to abortion too?
- 2001-09 Time to Stand Up by Richard Dawkins: active atheism
- 2007-07-26 21st Century Atheism: haven't quite worked out this piece's central thesis, but it has a lot of links
- 2008-03-28 Mark Mathis interview: just to have on file under "Mark Mathis"; eventually someone might document all the lies and misrepresentations, but it may not be worth bothering
- 2006-11-14 The Misguided Quest for 'Darwinian Conservatism': "Debate Over Evolution Not Going Away" (file under "Discovery Institute/articles" and "anti-Darwinism")
- [[google:cache:6h7j8vzjUg8J:www.socialtext.net/data/workspaces/wikinomics/attachments/wikinomics:20080213154459-1-3411/original/the%2520wikinomics%2520playbook%252002%25202008.pdf|online book mentioning Issuepedia]]
- 2007-10-21 Co-constructing politics: another article mentioning Issuepedia
- google:1-866-HERETIC - for htyp page, and link from appropriate issuepedia page
- 2008-06-18 Kucinich threatens 60 impeachment articles if Judiciary doesn’t act
- 2007 WHY THE GODS ARE NOT WINNING: data on the popularity of various religions over the past century
- ISP's confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends'
- IPower Most Active Groups: might be a good place to get a discussion going about InstaGov
- How do you add an infopage on Ning? Can you add other pages?
- IPower Most Active Groups: might be a good place to get a discussion going about InstaGov
- BrowserShots: useful tool, need to file somewhere (htyp:web development?)
- 2008-06-17 The Imperative of Developing Natural Resources by Paul M. Weyrich: article in favor of developing domestic oil resources. Cites some figures but does not mention the fact that domestic reserves are tiny.
- 2008-06-17 Knollenberg outlines plans to lower gas prices: more on Roy Blunt's efforts to get ANWAR opened up
- 2008-06 Signs of the Singularity by Vernor Vinge: should go on htyp:artificial intelligence and htyp:the singularity
- 2008-03-16 Where are our scientists in America?: about establishment science vs. 9/11 Truth (not sure if this article is worth filing; read more closely later...)
- I think I've already filed the video documentary embedded on this page, but make sure...
- 2008-06-11 A Self-Writing To-Do List "New online schedulers rely on natural-language processing to get you organized."
- 2008-06-12 Liberty Betrayed! Maybe we need an article about betrayals by the 110th Congress?
- 2007-10-15 Atheists and Anger by Greta Christina: excellent list of reasons why atheists (or anyone, really) should be angry about religion
- Lockhart's Lament: make sure I've got this filed in htyp somewhere
- Post-invasion Iraq at Discourse DB, which needs further investigation and probably an interwiki entry
- Add to Issuepedia Woozle page: list of pages I really want to write or update, starting with issuepedia:American ideals (or should that be "ideal"?)
- KnowabilityOfFAI at SL4wiki, which could probably also use further investigation and an interwiki.
- MisterHouse: for htyp:home automation
from RSS feeds
- 2008-06-25 Synteny, except that it's wrong
- 2006-11-14 Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. for "evolution" page
- 2006-11-06 “America is a piece of trash!”: the American ideal via a comic book superhero
- 2008-06-21 Phoenix finds water ice: for htyp:Mars
- 2008-06-06 The Propaganda Campaign Dissected
- 2008-06-07 Rewriting Genesis…accurately: this video isn't an especially good effort, but maybe there should be a collection of attempts to rewrite or rephrase parts of the Bible (and it could certainly go on the scripturewiki)
- 2006-11-14 My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists: as Americans, we should be ashamed of the degree to which fundamentalism has taken over our society
- 2008-06-07 John McCain: The Constitution Established America as a Christian Nation (video)
- 2008-06-08 Paranoia harming our way of life: about the Malkin Dunkin Donuts Islamic headdress nonsense (not sure if link is worth saving; reread later)
2008-06-06
2008-06-04
- carpet bombing in cyberspace
- 2008-05-12 From Wikinomics to Government 2.0: possibly related to InstaGov?
- red family, blue family
- put the blame where it belongs: commentary on bar chart
- 2006-08- "Cracks in the Wall" by Sara Robinson: part 1 part 2 part 3
- 2003-08-09 Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism" and other stuff
- 2006-08-27 Tunnels and Bridges, Part II: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
2008-05-29
- ncwarn.org - anti-Shearon-Harris
- ncethicalsociety.org
2008-05-24
- 'How I would beat phonies' by TV medium Derek Acorah: is the legislation any good? Or does it actually favor fraud?
2008-05-23
- For eventual Issuepedia page about vaccination: wikipedia:2008 measles outbreak in California
- Change We Can Stomach: how local food starts to look better as fuel prices go up
2008-05-22
2008-05-12
- http://utahfm.org/ - from Tene
- http://www.afajournal.org/2006/august/0806colleges.html - attending college cures fundamentalism
- http://www.palaeos.com/ - a resource
- http://byneddiejingo.blogspot.com/2006/08/achieving-representation.html - is PowerPoint responsible for our terrible Iraq lack-of-plan?
- http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/wikiconspiracy.php - Wikiconspiracy: a creationist group works to subvert Wikipedia. Comments include the predictable "you can't trust wiki" (as if "wiki" and "Wikipedia" were somehow equivalent).
- 2008-04-25 http://timesonline.typepad.com/inside_iraq_weblog/2008/04/iraqi-forces-se.html - a rare report of positive progress in Iraq
- 2008-05-04 United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp
- 2008-05-10 Acting Locally: Will Chicago Push Back Against Iran Warmongering?
- Technoprobing: Tom Easton has a blog; who knew?
2008-05-11
- Fred Rogers Congressional testimony, 1969
- 2008-03-19 happy anniversary: some of the human cost of the Iraq War, in case anyone has forgotten
- Libertyville Abortion Demonstration: demonstrators are asked what the penalty should be, if abortions are made illegal, for a woman who has an (illegal) abortion; for the most part, they haven't thought about it and don't believe she should be punished. (Nobody mentions punishing the doctor, which is presumably how the law would be enforced.) The poster of the aborted fetus seen briefly at the beginning seems very similar or perhaps identical to the one on the Fayetteville Rd. "Abortion Truck".
- Commentary: withered debutante (Muffy Bolding)
- Look out, it’s evil! - Faith-based Medicine: not sure if the post itself is useful, but it has links to several things which ought to be filed somewhere.
- why the wingnuts hate plan B: apparently Plan B isn't an issue anymore, but this is still some useful history on how the Right opposed a contraceptive measure which could not possibly be construed as abortion.
- Bush Administration Cut Funding For Explosives Detection: this probably should go in "Bush hypocrisy"
- creationist genetics: useful stuff for ScriptureWiki
- Joe Carter strings together some noise: one particular creationist's anti-evolution claims, and rebuttals
- Evangelicals urge museum to hide man's ancestors: anti-science, anti-Darwinism, Kenya, religious right
- video debunking the Discovery Institute's list of "scientists" who reject evolution
- Even sleazier than the DI: global warming denial dishonesty (should have a page specifically for lies told in the service of anti-Darwinism and global warming denial)
2008-05-01
- Judge Deals Blow to RIAA in Music Piracy Case: putting files in a "shared" folder is not illegal. (What about putting them on the web, or in an anonymous ftp folder?) (for Issuepedia)
- U.S. Marines Invade Manhattan, New York!: "Iraq Veterans Against the War" demonstrate US military brutality (for Issuepedia)
- Iraq: U.S. has no claim to oil boom '"America has hardly even begun to repay its debt to Iraq," Baghdad official says. "This is an immoral request because we didn't ask them to come to Iraq, and before they came in 2003 we didn't have all these needs."' Iraq does not want the US to stay. (Has anybody except neocons claimed otherwise? This is not a rhetorical question.) (for Issuepedia)
- Wolfowitz: Iraq occupation ended in 2004: we're no longer occupying Iraq, we're just kind of there. (Our mission to spread
American sovereigntydemocracy is so just and holy that God (from his office in the White House) has granted us special dispensiation to be militarily present without "occupying", perhaps.) - White House admits fault on 'Mission Accomplished' banner: well, not really: ""President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year."" Do they really?
- Mark Anderson speaks on the current economic crisis (for Issuepedia)
2008-04-30
- Wheaton is a weird place (for Issuepedia)
2008-04-29
- Stuff for ResearchBuy:
- editing Main Page revision
- Inputbox extension
- Extension Matrix, in case Inputbox isn't it
- Messed Up America: blog here? Maybe try to plant seeds of United Members of Civilization idea?
- What's wrong with American banks?: does this belong in HTYP, or Issuepedia? Some new pages to create, either way.
- group think: computer models of crowd behavior
- Semantic Mediawiki:
- The GOP version of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell..." (the truth): still reading this; start right after anonymous Navy comment
- Bush book, Chapter 2: still reading this; I think I've already linked it in Issuepedia
- GlobalIntegrity: does LessigWiki have a link to this? (Also: need to discuss Knowledge Corruption and Trust Corruption)
- Can every "War on X" be also seen as "X Corruption"?
- Wikileaks and Internet Censorship - a comparative study: for Issuepedia, War on the Internet
- CNN/FOX/ABC/CBS/(MS)NBC vs. the Reverend Jeremiah Wright: for Issuepedia
- Extension:Wikiwyg: something I was going to try on dev.psycrit.org and then ResearchWikis if it's not too problematic
- a reminder that Issuepedia Francaise wants an easy way to create a new article
- Auto Parts Warehouse for HTYP
- Benz 1983 380SEL: for Janis Jalopy page
- iLike: sign up. Eventually.
- Kaltura: MediaWiki Extension, partners (sign up?)
- MWCalendar: useful for HypertWiki?
- Récession mondiale: translate and comment
- DHS transition planning goes 'deeper than normal': for Issuepedia
- Top 10 'Conspiracy Theories' about George W. Bush, Part 1: is this actually useful (for Issuepedia)?
- All the "Conspiracy Theories" About George W. Bush have come true: related (same question)