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* [http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/06/avast_me_hearti.html Avast, Me Hearties! Here Be Rational Profit Maximizers!]
* [http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/06/avast_me_hearti.html Avast, Me Hearties! Here Be Rational Profit Maximizers!]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html Pearls Before Breakfast]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html Pearls Before Breakfast]
* [http://seqram.livejournal.com/18182.html 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
* [http://wiki.lessig.org/Declaration4Independence A Declaration for Independence]: reading material
* [http://www.plosone.org/home.action PLoS ONE]: is this kind of like PsyCrit?
* [http://prorev.com/2007/05/science-pubs-reject-articles-written-in.htm SCIENCE PUBS REJECT ARTICLES WRITTEN IN WORD 2007]
* [http://prorev.com/2006/11/milton-friedman-killing-america-softly.htm Milton Friedman: Killing America softly with his song]
* [http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/08/farewell_from_the_worlds_bigge.php The Handmaid's Tale: Fact or Fiction?]
* [http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=124 Bill Hicks video]
* [http://www.sunclipse.org/?p=108 Framing is Back]
* [http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/zaftcrus.htm Modern Aftermath of the Crusades]: the Crusades weren't really all that bad?
* [http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/07/when_religion_goes_berserk.php When religion goes berserk!]
* http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/07/poli-miscellany.html
* [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v90/i24/e248701 Solar Flare Intermittency and the Earth’s Temperature Anomalies]
* [http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/netroots_nation_keynote.html Netroots Nation Keynote]: Lessig video
* [http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001156.html Building Tiny, Ultra Low Power PCs]
** [http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/pico-itx/default.asp?page=3 VIA EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX Review]
* [http://www.seasteading.org/learn-more/intro A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute]
** [http://www.seasteading.org/interact/forums/community/introductions/later-ideas-now-spamfighting Later: ideas; Now: spamfighting]
* http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/07/christian-prote.html
* http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/13570.html - article about Extraordinary Ventures
* [http://www.opednews.com/articles/ROVE-NAMED-IN-ELECTION-FRA-by-Mark-Crispin-Mille-080718-340.html ROVE NAMED IN ELECTION FRAUD CONSPIRACY]
* [http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189 Ohio Attorney Files to Lift Stay on '04 Election Case, Cites Allegations, Evidence of Massive Fraud by a Number of GOP Operatives]
* [http://unreasonablefaith.com/2008/07/09/its-just-a-cracker/ It’s just a cracker!]
* [http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2006/11/lost-in-haystack.html 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.""
* [http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2007/04/22/getting-information-from-creationists-is-like-pulling-teeth/ 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"
* [http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2007/09/parsing-john-pieret.html Parsing John Pieret]
* http://www.hulu.com/ - has (had?) Firefly
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/04/teach_the_controversy.php Teach the controversy!]
* http://trianglegreencleaning.com/cleaning_products
* [http://www.soyouthinkimabarstard.com/?p=38 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."
* [http://mediamatters.org/items/200702080003 CNN, MSNBC aired Donohue's criticism of Edwards bloggers without noting his bigotry]
* [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080710113026.htm New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle Touch]
* [http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=538 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
* [http://www.psychnology.org/375.php Phone Call Aversion among Mobile Phone Users]: for [[phone phobia]] page
* http://letourcongresstweet.org/ - and look at [http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2008/07/08/member-web-use-reconsidered/ this link], and is there a list of Congresspeople using Twitter?
* [http://dododreams.blogspot.com/2008/07/irrationality-squared.html Irrationality Squared]: did I not ever post a link to this? Should be included in the argument map, anyway.
* [http://www.correntewire.com/the_party_of_caligula_loots_the_smithsonian The party of Caligula loots the Smithsonian]
* [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/07/four-reflections-on-patriotism.html Four Reflections On Patriotism]
* [http://www.hackaday.com/2008/06/16/dont-talk-to-the-police/ Don't talk to the police]: I kind of want to see what these videos ''are''...
* http://www.debategraph.org/
* [[googlebooks:PF0sAAAAMAAJ|A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War]] By James Thacher
* [http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/05/solving_the_cli.html Solving the climate change attitude mystery]
* [http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/06/when_correction.html When corrections fail: the persistence of political misperceptions]
* [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-think-maybe-we-could-use-handbook.html 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
* [http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2007/12/david-broder-slobbering-half-wit.html 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 [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/06/all-right-then-how-can-we-help.html]):
** 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 [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/05/announcements-articles-and-clearing-out.html#comments 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 [http://futuresoon.livejournal.com/149120.html#cutid1 this] in?
* And of course [http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/05/not-really-about-anything.html 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":
* http://test.vbz.net/cat/lb/66141/
* http://test.vbz.net/cart/
* http://vbz.net/cat/lb/66141/
===2008-08-19===
===2008-08-19===
* http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/09/fungenevodevo.php
* http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/09/fungenevodevo.php

Revision as of 22:00, 20 August 2008

This is Woozle's "internal" page, for making notes on things; you are welcome to poke around in this area all you like, but most of it probably won't mean much to you.

Woozle's "external" page for general public consumption is here.

Practical Stuff

Somewhat Esoteric Stuff

Somewhat Outdated Stuff

Other places to find me

Essays

See also Issuepedia, where I've written a lot of stuff, and the Woozle category.

Bookmarks

Most of my bookmarks get filed in HTYP or Issuepedia, but sometimes I just don't have time to file everything and I dump them here so I can close tabs in Firefox.

Media

2008-08-20

or Add links to articles on other sites"

working on custom RSS feeds

other MW stuff

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

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...

from RSS feeds

2008-06-06

2008-06-04

2008-05-29

  • ncwarn.org - anti-Shearon-Harris
  • ncethicalsociety.org

2008-05-24

2008-05-23

2008-05-22

2008-05-12

2008-05-11

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

2008-04-29

Customization

Notes

Homeopathy

from when Tene asked for the theory behind homeopathy; there isn't really anything scientific, which may mean it's all bunk (and indeed that's the prevailing sentiment), but...

(02:33:22 PM) Woozle: Ok, theory...
(02:35:21 PM) Woozle: (And I'm not claiming this is scientific, just maybe a place to look.) Reality is generally more complicated than the models account for. We think of molecular movements in a gas or liquid as being "random", but there are probably patterns at some level.
(02:37:34 PM) Woozle: Things vibrate. Things have resonances. It seems maybe a little unlikely, but couldn't it be that the particular shapes of the molecules present would influence those patterns in some way? The deadly problem with that idea is that once the influence is removed, you'd think that the patterns would deteriorate back to the default pretty quickly.
(02:37:44 PM) Woozle: So maybe that doesn't work.
(02:38:49 PM) Woozle: The other area to look is in quantum theory, which new-agey people love to use as an explanation for everything -- so I'm hesitant to bring it up -- but it seems possible to me that there may be some kind of pattern-retaining effect there.
(02:41:25 PM) Woozle: The main thrust of my personal advocacy for homeopathics, though, is on two fronts... (1) it is kind of a "chew toy" (placebo, if you prefer -- though I *swear* I came across an article throwing serious doubt on the "placebo effect"... maybe I dreamed it, because I haven't been able to find it again) which prevents people from using our poorly-run healthcare system;
(02:41:40 PM) Woozle: (Well, not *prevents... I guess I mean "pre-empts")
(02:42:05 PM) Woozle: (except in emergencies, when it's really needed... thus applying the adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it")
(02:43:41 PM) Woozle: (2) homeopathic doctors tend to be much more in it because they want to help people, rather than in it for the paycheck -- so even if 90% of the time they're giving you treatment which actually has no effect, it at least isn't the latest sample from Glaxo which might actually be harmful... and they're more likely to pay attention to what's going on, and direct you to conventional treatment *if needed*.
(02:46:14 PM) Woozle: (3) people should have the right to make their own mistakes. It seems to me that we do far too much protecting people from their own mistakes by "controlling" substances or outlawing them completely, when what we should be doing is educating and tracking. The big (mainstream) drug companies seem to want to make the situation worse; the homeopathy movement is fighting that tendency, even if it's actually making money off snake oil.
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