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* [[googlevideo:3505348655137118430|The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis]]: 1987 Bill Moyers documentary
* [[googlevideo:3505348655137118430|The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis]]: 1987 Bill Moyers documentary
* http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
* http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
 
===Archives===
===2008-12-19===
* [[/2008]]
* '''2008-12-04''' [http://domesticfather.com/2008/12/practical-skepticism-books/ Practical Skepticism Books]
===2009-01-22===
* '''2008-12-16''' [http://wayneswordonweb.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!3CDA0CAA12D01BB9!591.entry CHRISTIANS and ATHIESTS WELCOMED]
* '''2009-01-22'''
* [http://feedvalidator.org/ RSS feed validator]
** [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/president.tension/index.html Balance of power trying to find balance]: about tension between Obama and Congress Democrats
* [http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 . Notes on the State of Virginia]
** [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/guantanamo.order/index.html Obama signs executive order to close Guantanamo Bay]
* [http://www.thegoatpatrol.com/rates.htm The Goat Patrol]
** [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html Afghan girls maimed by acid vow to go to school]
* '''2008-09-23''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/politics/24davis.html McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac]
* '''2009-01-21'''
* '''2008-09-17''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603321_pf.html McCain Able to Skirt Limits of Federal Financing]
** [http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/downvote-bots-fight-propaganda-war.html Downvote Bots Fight Propaganda War]: this would seem to illustrate the importance of having a tool like [[issuepedia:InstaGov|InstaGov]]
* '''2008-09-07''' [http://justicefornone.com/article.php/20080907111014260 Texas Republican Has Had Enough]: horrified by Palin
** [http://www.acandidworld.net/2009/01/21/obamas-political-dynamic-the-shape-of-things-to-come/ Obama’s Political Dynamic & the Shape of Things to Come]
* '''2008-09-13''' [http://www.atlargely.com/2008/09/white-power-the.html#more White Power: The Republican Base]: Obama as Aunt Jemima, and with towel-head
* '''2009-01-20'''
* [http://www.mccainpedia.org/index.php/Count_the_Lies McCainPedia: Count the Lies]
** [http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/20/ben_stein_and_history/index.html Ben Stein: Please eat your hat]
* '''2008-09-16''' [http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/09/16/foolish-planetariums/ Foolish Planetariums]
*** Other articles on [http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/?last_story=/tech/htww/2009/01/20/ben_stein_and_history/ this page] may also be of interest
* [http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/ SmokePing]
** [http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9122 Barack Obama's Inaugural Address]: for an eventual collection of reactions to the address
* [http://publicmarkup.org/ PublicMarkup.org]
* '''2009-01-17''' [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2009/01/eric-holder-does-not-believe-in-24.html Eric Holder Does Not Believe In 24. Neocon Heads Explode]: Holder confirmations, neocons still believing in torture, John Cornyn needs a dunce cap
* [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/ Global Guerrillas]
* '''2009-01-12''' [http://www.acandidworld.net/2009/01/12/the-equal-protection-of-the-laws-gender-segregated-dorms/ The Equal Protection of the Laws: Gender-”Segregated” Dorms]: polygamy as the stalking-horse for gay marriage
* Private currencies:
* '''2009-01-08''' [http://mises.org/story/3283 The Dangers of Disputing Warming Orthodoxy]: global warming conspiracy theorism
** '''2008-09-23''' [http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/23/what-went-wrong.html Print Your Own Money]
* '''2009-01-03''' [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123093987596650197.html Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams]: I think I emailed a critique of this to JERS
** [http://www.complementarycurrency.org/ Complementary Currency Resource Center]
* '''2008-12-30''' [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2008/12/bloody-horrible-mess.html A Bloody, Horrible Mess]: see comments section for links about Israel using cluster bombs, and links on the Gaza situation in general
** [http://www.ncplenty.org/home.php Piedmont Local Economy Tender]
* '''2008-12-29''' [http://palestinethinktank.com/2008/12/29/gilad-atzmon-eine-kleine-nacht-murder-how-israeli-leaders-kill-for-their-peoples-votes/ Gilad Atzmon - Eine Kleine Nacht Murder: How Israeli Leaders Kill for their People's Votes]
** [http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/ Open Source Currency] blog
* '''2008-12-22''' [http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/12/end_the_copyright_war_now.html End the [copyright] war: NOW!]
** [http://www.transaction.net/money/internet/ Internet Currencies for Virtual Communities]
* '''2008-12-19'''
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID MediaWiki OpenID extension]
** [http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=15088 Why Ahmadinejad Fears Khatami]
* '''2002-09''' [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3257/is_9_56/ai_91804617 Healthcare reform: Deja Vu all over again - FYI]
** [http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1179.htm Iran Warns Of Bilderberg Plot To Plunge World Into Total Chaos]: rather conspiracy-ish, but may have some interesting sources (also links above article on other topics)
* '''2008-09-05''' [http://www.truthout.org/article/nearly-600000-voters-subject-possible-caging-ohio Nearly 600,000 Subject to Possible Caging in Ohio]
* '''2008-11-30''' [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,635817.story The GOP's McCarthy gene]
* '''2007-05-17''' [http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/interviews/061 Greg Palast, Author of Armed Madhouse, on How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Election]
* '''2000-05-28''' [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20000528/ai_n13949725 Lockerbie: CIA witness gagged by US government; Lockerbie trial]
* '''2008-09-07''' [http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/8/0144/73374/148/589714 It's not just 600,000 in Ohio: LA, FL, MI, KS, NM, CO, and NV]
* '''1997''' [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/old/351609.html A Rational Consensus Model In Group Decision Making Using Linguistic Assessments]: is this gobbledygook, or something usable?
* ''[http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download/ The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind]''
* '''Guttmacher''' (search for "education"):
 
** '''2007-05-10''' [http://www.guttmacher.org/media/presskits/2007/05/10/sexed.html Changing Direction: Support Sex Education That Works]
===2008-12-16===
** '''2001-03-01''' [http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2001/03/01/newsrelease4101.html ALL BUT POLITICIANS SEEM TO AGREE THAT TEENS NEED MORE THAN ABSTINENCE-ONLY EDUCATION]
* '''2008-12-09''' [http://the-wawg-blog.org/?p=984  Two Worldviews - A History, Two Ideal Family Models and The Role of Empathy]
* '''Wikipedia''': [[wikipedia:Presuppositional apologetics|Presuppositional apologetics]] ought to be linked from somewhere (Christianity?)
* '''2008-04-24''' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/24/digitalvideo.intellectualproperty Hulu aims to outfox rival TV websites]
* [http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5767 Subject: Slaughter of the Canaanites]: how religion justifies slaughter
* '''2008-05-08''' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/08/digitalmedia.digitalmusic Universal to allow free music downloads]
* [http://www.vuletic.com/hume/at/12.html The Tale of the Twelve Officers]: answers to the "problem of evil", told as a parable
* '''2008-10-22''' [http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2008/10/500-block-of-east-main-about-to-come.html 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''' [http://technologizer.com/2008/10/13/copy-protection/ 25 Arguments for the Elimination of Copy Protection]
* '''2008-10-07''' [http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy]: the media industry ''is'' creative -- they invent numbers
* '''2008-07-02''' [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/Story?id=5293543&page=1 Women Say Economy Factors in Abortions]: "Forty Percent of Minnesota Women Getting Abortions Cited Financial Concerns"
** [http://wcco.com/health/abortions.minnesota.economy.2.762008.html same article?]
* '''2008-10-13''' [http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1399635276 No opt-out of filtered Internet]: not sure what the final decision was
* [http://www.cohousing.org/directory Cohousing Directory]: do I have this listed in htyp?
* [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/woods/2869/waiver.html Medicaid Waver: Home and Community Based Services Waiver]: can we get permission to copy this to htyp?
* [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/woods/2869/alternatives.html Alternative Living Arrangements]: same for this
* '''2007-12-13''' [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste]
* '''2008-07''' [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200807/traffic Distracting Miss Daisy]: JERS's ''Atlantic'' article
** '''2008-08-28''' [http://johnochwat.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/in-praise-of-the-gyratory-circus/ In Praise of the Gyratory Circus] includes commentary on the aforementioned
** '''2008-06-10''' [http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/06/traffic-why-we.html 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''' [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/fourway_stops_must_be_outlawed.php Four-way stops must be outlawed in Minnesota]: and even Pharyngula gets into the zeitgeist...
* '''2005-11-18''' [http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3836 Al Qaeda – The Database]
* [http://pleasedieinafire.net/cgi-bin/graphviz GraphViz test page] from Tene
* '''2008-10-02''' [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/02/catholic_youtube/ Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids]
* [http://www.ausupportandadvocacy.com/ Autism Support and Advocacy Center]: seems to be a paid-only service
* [http://www.nativetimes.com/ Native American Times]
* '''2006-02-20''' [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510866/Poll-reveals-40pc-of-Muslims-want-sharia-law-in-UK.html Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK]
* '''2008-10-02''' [http://rogalert.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-youtube-buckled-to-islam.html Why youTube buckled to islam ???]
* '''2008-10-02''' [http://freethinker.co.uk/2008/10/02/condell%E2%80%99s-attack-on-shariah-law-in-the-uk-blocked-by-youtube/ Condell’s attack on shariah law in the UK blocked by YouTube]
* [http://www.navajocourts.org/index5.htm THE NAVAJO NATION PEACEMAKING PROGRAM]
* '''2008-09-27''' [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/636zbhel.asp A Genuine and Immediate Crisis] by William Kristol
* '''2008-10-01''' [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/639uvzyu.asp The Conservative Case for Unlimited Deposit Insurance]
* [http://www.headlinebistro.com/hb/en/news/church/YouTube_Eucharistic_desecration.html YouTube Allows Videos of Eucharistic Desecration] (can't find date)
 
===2008-12-15===
* '''2008-12-06''' [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/12/unusual-suggestions-radical.html Unusual Suggestions: Radical Transparency]: cf [[issuepedia:Open Government]] and see if anyone ever responded to my last comment...
* '''2008-12-06''' [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122852289752684407.html How the Credit Crisis Will Change the Way America Does Business]
* MS Outlook PST viewers:
** [http://www.oemailrecovery.com/pst-viewer.html OEMailRecovery]: recovery & repair
** [http://www.mailnavigator.com/reading_ms_outlook_pst_files.html Mail Navigator PST Reader]
** [[google:pst+file+reader]]
* ''[http://www.howtochangetheworld.org/ How to Change the World]'' by David Bornstein
* [http://www.ashoka.org/ Ashoka] "innovators for the public"
* [http://wiki.lessig.org/Declaration4Independence Declaration4Independence] and [http://wiki.lessig.org/Talk:Article_V_Convention here]
* [http://botdom.com/wiki/Cheddar 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''' [http://profy.com/2008/11/27/mumbai-attacks-twitter-adds-to-the-noise-but-is-still-valuable/ Mumbai Attacks: Twitter Adds to the Noise but Is Still Valuable]: see also text of saved [http://twitter.com/mumbai Twitter Mumbai] page
* '''2007-10-16''' [http://scaryreasoner.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/on-the-notion-of-faith/ On the notion of faith]
* '''2008-07''' [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/general-motors/ Electro-Shock Therapy]: ''Atlantic'' article about the GM Volt
* '''2005-12-30''' [http://hybridblog.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/government_econ.html Government & Economics 101—Deconstructing Holman Jenkins’ “Prius Follies”]
* '''2008-11-12''' [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122645159441719325-lMyQjAxMDI4MjE2ODQxNTgxWj.html Obama's Car Puzzle]
* '''2008-11-14''' [http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2008/11/militant-atheism.html Militant Atheism]
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz Extension:GraphViz]: but is GraphViz available on L48.net? Is it commonly installed?
* [http://www.conservapedia.com/Debate:Is_Obama_a_Muslim%3F Debate:Is Obama a Muslim?] - did I ever link to this from [[issuepedia:Barack Obama/Muslim smear]]?
* '''2008-10-30''' [http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_45/b4107085289974.htm Newt Gingrich: Let's End Adolescence]
* [http://www.mormonsstoleourrights.com/ Mormons Stole Our Rights]: Proposition 8
* '''2008-10-30''' [http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2008/10/30/principles-for-a-better-web/ Principles for a better Web]
* [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.html GNU FDL 1.3]
* '''2008-10-28''' [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122515067227674187-lMyQjAxMDI4MjI1OTEyNTkwWj.html Obama's 'Redistribution' Constitution]
* '''2008-10-27''' [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122506830024970697.html The Age of Prosperity Is Over]: the inventor of the Laffer Curve recommends panicking
* '''2008-10-22''' [http://stj911.org/press_releases/Misrepresentation.html Scholars for 9-11 Truth & Justice Misrepresented in Draft Bill Sent to 8 House Members]
* '''2008-10-24''' [http://www.prisonplanet.com/landmark-e-howard-hunt-jfk-confession-video-tape-ignored.html Landmark E. Howard Hunt JFK Confession Video Tape Ignored]
* '''2008-10-23''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026794.800-conscientiousness-is-the-secret-to-a-long-life.html Conscientiousness is the secret to a long life]
* '''2000-07-11''' [http://www.dailyhowler.com/h071100_1.shtml The Atlantic’s cover shows the schoolboy level to which our discourse has fallen.]
* '''2008-10-23''' [http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/rigging.election/index.html Ex-GOP operative tells cautionary tale about 'how to rig an election']
* '''2008-10-22''' [http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/22/markets/oil/index.htm?cnn=yes Oil ends at 16-month low]
 
===2008-11-07===
* '''2008-10-30''' [http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/10/how-techies-can-improve-democr.html How Techies Can Improve Democracy and Governance]: interview with Silona Bonewald on a lot of [[issuepedia:InstaGov|InstaGov]]-related topics
** [http://www.thataway.org/ National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation]
** [http://transparentfederalbudget.com/ Transparent Federal Budget]: paragraph-by-paragraph collaborative analysis of the federal budget
** [http://theyrule.net/ They Rule]: the individuals behind the corporations
** [http://reunitingamerica.org/ Reuniting America]: finding points of agreement between people in radically different parts of the political spectra (might they take on something like the [[issuepedia:User:Woozle/interfaith treaty|Interfaith Treaty]]?)
 
===2008-11-06===
* '''2008-11-03''' [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7706844.stm Magnetic shield for spacefarers]: for eventual [[htyp:space travel]] page
* [http://www.opencog.org/wiki/The_Open_Cognition_Project The Open Cognition Project] wiki
* [http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenSimulator] wiki: [[cyberlife]]-related
 
===2008-09-27===
* [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1843168,00.html How We Became the United States of France]: nationalizing the financial system and major industries
* [http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mccain_wins_debate.html McCain Wins Debate] before it is even held -- signaling his disregard for the whole process?
 
===2008-09-21===
* [http://web.mit.edu/angles2008/angles_Susan_Shepherd.html Daughters Without Borders]
* [http://web.mit.edu/angles2008/angles_Francisco_Saldana.html Knowingly Unchecked Aggression: Private Military Contractors in Iraq]
* [http://web.mit.edu/angles2008/angles_Radu_Gogoana.html Current Battery Technology and Fully Electric Vehicles: A Review]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes]
* [http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/12/2326251&from=rss Telco Sues Municipality For Laying Their Own Fiber]
* [http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/09/2049224&from=rss Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling?]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/greenspan-this-is-the-wor_n_126274.html Greenspan: This Is The Worst Economy I've Ever Seen]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/15/mccain-no-obama-didnt-cal_n_126586.html McCain: No, Obama Didn't Call Palin A Pig]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/14/lindsay-lohan-and-sam-ron_n_126271.html Lindsay Lohan And Sam Ronson Criticize Sarah Palin: "Narrow Minded, Media Obsessed Homophobe"]
* [http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=257 A Rising Tide Lifts Mood in the Developing World]
* [http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/09/18/obama-and-desperation-an-analogy-from-wall-street/ Obama and desperation: an analogy from Wall Street]
* [http://www.reason.com/news/show/30123.html Who Should Pay for Science?] by JERS
* [http://deepakchopra.com/2008/09/04/blog-obama-and-the-palin-effect/ Blog: Obama and the Palin Effect]
* [http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm WAR IS A RACKET]
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/an-open-letter-to-all-rep_b_127709.html An Open Letter to All Republicans From a Former Religious Right Activist]
* [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122178554189155003-lMyQjAxMDI4MjExOTcxODk1Wj.html Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism]
* [http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/08/rove-consistent-mccain/ GOP operative: Rove has ‘consistent, medium-sized role with the McCain campaign.’]
* [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt08/haidt08_index.html WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?] by Jon Haidt
* [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB121677050160675397-lMyQjAxMDI4MTA2ODcwNzgwWj.html The Fannie Mae Gang]
* [[wikipedia:Angoor Ada raid]]
* [http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080/page/1 When Atheists Attack]: A noted provocateur rips Sarah Palin—and defends elitism.
* [http://www.physorg.com/news140928152.html Australian company launches 3D Internet tool]
* [http://www.physorg.com/news141015420.html 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
* [http://castinglight.blogspot.com/ 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===
* http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/intelligent-des.html
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
*** [[wikipedia:Center for Independent Media]]
* 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
* [[google:cache:Lh8LX8KyM6sJ:eagleforumalaska.blogspot.com/2006/07/2006-gubernatorial-candidate.html|the Lost Views of Sarah Palin]]
** http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Palin_answers_on_abortion_gay_marriage_scrubbed_from_conservative_website.html?showall
* http://www.woottonandwootton.com/whatwedo.html -- debt counseling
* [http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/08/29/its-like-a-casio-but.html The Casio Terrorist Watch]
* [http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=40 Presidential Science Debate 2008]: will McCain answer?
* [[youtube:JIq7tsVvEoY|Islam's war on freedom]] (Pat Condell)
** [http://europenews.dk/en/node/13092 Exclusive: Incredulous UN Bans Criticism of Islam]
* [[googlegroups:group/tech-for-sustainability-wikis|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?)
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/rollins_on_evolution.php 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
** http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/26/limbaugh-conservative-majority/
*** http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2008/08/happy-hour-discurso_26.html
* [[youtube:CoDsQ2VNArI|Denver Democratic Convention Protesters chant "F**k Fox News!!!" ON LIVE TV]]
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2627300/Barack-Obama-ought-to-be-shot-says-racist-plotter.html 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===
* http://www.newscred.com
 
===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
* [http://www.ventrella.com/There/index.html There]: another Second Life?
* [http://ptet.dubar.com/misc-facts.html Facts For Fundamentalists]: even Christian beliefs are being misrepresented
* [http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071010221130AAnrFCf Features of a good government? john adams?]
* [http://hankfox.com/?p=237#more-237 Davey & Goliath]
* [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://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===
* 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===
* http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html
===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''' [http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16044.html Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend]
* '''2008-06-30''' [http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/story/588518.html American outpost: Beyond the tourist haunts, Alaska is vast and unfamiliar]: file in [[htyp:Alaska]] (which probably doesn't exist yet)
* '''2008-06-30''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901871.html?nav=rss_print 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''' [http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/2008/06/fox_news_on_republicans_shying_away_from_party_brand.html FOX News on Republicans shying away from party brand]
** commentary: [http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/gop_candidates_republicans_who.php TPM]
* '''2006-11-30''' [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/11/animations_of_urogenital_devel.php Animations of urogenital development] for gender site
* [http://openid.net/developers/ OpenID developer info]
* '''2008-06-19''' [http://www.freedomworks.org/newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=2571 Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government]
* [http://feingold.senate.gov/issues_fisafacts.html The New FISA Bill: A Bad Deal] by Senator Russ Feingold
* '''2006-11-22''' [http://www.buridansass.com/index.php?/buridan/what_the_hell_is_an_evangelical_atheist/ What the hell is an evangelical atheist?]
* '''2006-08-15''' [http://byneddiejingo.blogspot.com/2006/08/achieving-representation.html Achieving Representation]: about the infamous Iraq Invasion Powerpoint
* '''2006-08-08''' [http://armsandinfluence.typepad.com/armsandinfluence/2006/08/death_by_powerp.html Death by PowerPoint]: and more about it
* '''2008-06-29''' [http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/29/1552/91282/498/542574 Book Review: Feld's and Wilcox's "Netroots Rising"]: Issuepedia needs a "netroots" page, which should include a link to InstaGov
* '''2008-06-22''' [http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/22/55125/3598/936/540118 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''' [http://ffrf.org/timely/dawkins.php Time to Stand Up] by Richard Dawkins: active atheism
* '''2007-07-26''' [http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2007/07/21st-century-atheism.html 21st Century Atheism]: haven't quite worked out this piece's central thesis, but it has a lot of links
* '''2008-03-28''' [http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/03/28/mark-mathis-interview/ 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''' [http://www.discovery.org/a/3801 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''' [http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/10/21/co-constructing-politics/ Co-constructing politics]: another article mentioning Issuepedia
* [[google:1-866-HERETIC]] - for htyp page, and link from appropriate issuepedia page
* '''2008-06-18''' [http://rawstory.com/news08/2008/06/18/kucinich-threatens-60-impeachment-articles-if-judiciary-doesnt-act/ Kucinich threatens 60 impeachment articles if Judiciary doesn’t act]
* '''2007''' [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/paul07/paul07_index.html WHY THE GODS ARE NOT WINNING]: data on the popularity of various religions over the past century
* [http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2 ISP's confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends']
** [http://ipower.ning.com/groups IPower Most Active Groups]: might be a good place to get a discussion going about InstaGov
*** How do you add an [http://ipower.ning.com/infopage infopage] on Ning? Can you add other pages?
* [http://browsershots.org/ BrowserShots]: useful tool, need to file somewhere ([[htyp:web development]]?)
* '''2008-06-17''' [http://newsbyus.com/index.php/article/785 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''' [http://www.dailytribune.com/stories/061708/loc_local03.shtml Knollenberg outlines plans to lower gas prices]: more on Roy Blunt's efforts to get ANWAR opened up
* '''2008-06''' [http://spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6306 Signs of the Singularity] by Vernor Vinge: should go on [[htyp:artificial intelligence]] and [[htyp:the singularity]]
* '''2008-03-16''' [http://americanjourney.blogspot.com/2008/03/where-are-our-scientists-in-america.html 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 [http://americanjourney.blogspot.com/2008/05/why-you-should-question-official.html this page], but make sure...
* '''2008-06-11''' [http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20887/?a=f A Self-Writing To-Do List] "New online schedulers rely on natural-language processing to get you organized."
** [http://www.presdo.com/about Presdo]
** [http://iwantsandy.com/ IWantSandy]
* '''2008-06-12''' [http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/06/liberty-betrayed.html Liberty Betrayed!] Maybe we need an article about betrayals by the 110th Congress?
* '''2007-10-15''' [http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2007/10/atheists-and-an.html Atheists and Anger] by Greta Christina: excellent list of reasons why atheists (or anyone, really) should be angry about religion
* [[google:cache:qcqr-s07yTgJ:www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf|Lockhart's Lament]]: make sure I've got this filed in htyp somewhere
* [http://www.discoursedb.org/wiki/Post-invasion_Iraq 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"?)
* [http://www.sl4.org/wiki/KnowabilityOfFAI KnowabilityOfFAI] at SL4wiki, which could probably also use further investigation and an interwiki.
* [http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ MisterHouse]: for [[htyp:home automation]]
===from RSS feeds===
* '''2008-06-25''' [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/basics_synteny.php Synteny], except that it's [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/323572841/evolgen_disputes_my_explanatio.php wrong]
* '''2006-11-14''' [http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/11/denton_vs_squid.html Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design.] for "evolution" page
* '''2006-11-06''' [http://prettyfakes.com/?p=862 “America is a piece of trash!”]: the American ideal via a comic book superhero
* '''2008-06-21''' [http://www.planetary.org/news/2008/0621_Phoenix_Scientists_Confirm_WaterIce_on.html Phoenix finds water ice]: for [[htyp:Mars]]
* '''2008-06-06''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/06/BL2008060602283_pf.html The Propaganda Campaign Dissected]
* '''2008-06-07''' [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/06/rewriting_genesisaccurately.php 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''' [http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,448350,00.html 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''' [http://atheistmedia.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-mccain-constitution-established.html John McCain: The Constitution Established America as a Christian Nation] (video)
* '''2008-06-08''' [http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/story/561078.html 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===
* Derren Brown The so called Messiah: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ02I6QyagM part 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnaG35Ed1TU&feature=related part 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgHkuE9Q_8&feature=related part 3] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsnpIGwqHC0&feature=related part 4] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUOXdIVQAI&feature=related part 5] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-duHTeilY&feature=related part 6] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q2qR7PJQnQ&feature=related part 7] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlajL_bkMgs&feature=related part 8]
===2008-06-04===
* [http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2008/05/3375884 carpet bombing in cyberspace]
* '''2008-05-12''' [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB121055303906183983-lMyQjAxMDI4MTEwMjUxNTIzWj.html From Wikinomics to Government 2.0]: possibly related to InstaGov?
* [http://www.gurus.com/dougdeb/politics/209.html red family, blue family]
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/put_the_blame_where_it_belongs.php put the blame where it belongs]: commentary on bar chart
* '''2006-08-''' "Cracks in the Wall" by Sara Robinson: [http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/08/cracks-in-wall-part-i-defining.html part 1] [http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/08/cracks-in-wall-part-ii-listening-to.html part 2] [http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/08/cracks-in-wall-part-iii-escape-ladders.html part 3]
* '''2003-08-09''' [http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/archives/2003_08_03_dneiwert_archive.html Rush, Newspeak, and Fascism" and other stuff]
* '''2006-08-27''' [http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/08/tunnels-and-bridges-part-ii-nothing-to.html Tunnels and Bridges, Part II: Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself]
 
===2008-05-29===
* ncwarn.org - anti-Shearon-Harris
* ncethicalsociety.org
 
===2008-05-24===
* [http://icseftonandwestlancs.icnetwork.co.uk/ormskirkadvertiser/news/tm_headline=how-i-would-beat-phonies-by-tv-medium-derek-acorah%26method=full%26objectid=20880486%26siteid=60252-name_page.html '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]]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/opinion/11barber.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Change We Can Stomach]: how local food starts to look better as fuel prices go up
 
===2008-05-22===
* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D8735 brain's "trust" mechanism]
* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D8730 libertarian ocean colonies]
===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''' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3868063.ece United States is drawing up plans to strike on Iranian insurgency camp]
* '''2008-05-10''' [http://www.alternet.org/audits/85010/?page=2 Acting Locally: Will Chicago Push Back Against Iran Warmongering?]
* [http://technoprobe.blogspot.com/ Technoprobing]: Tom Easton has a blog; who knew?
 
===2008-05-11===
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41lJIhW7fA Fred Rogers Congressional testimony], 1969
* '''2008-03-19''' [http://muffybolding.livejournal.com/214250.html#cutid1 happy anniversary]: some of the human cost of the Iraq War, in case anyone has forgotten
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6t_tdOkwo 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: [http://muffybolding.livejournal.com/208987.html withered debutante] (Muffy Bolding)
* [http://6-bleen-7.livejournal.com/46587.html 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.
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/why_the_wingnuts_hate_plan_b.php 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.
* [http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/12/173810/788 Bush Administration Cut Funding For Explosives Detection]: this probably should go in "Bush hypocrisy"
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/creationist_genetics.php creationist genetics]: useful stuff for ScriptureWiki
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/joe_carter_strings_together_so.php Joe Carter strings together some noise]: one particular creationist's anti-evolution claims, and rebuttals
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1526191/Evangelicals-urge-museum-to-hide-man's-ancestors.html Evangelicals urge museum to hide man's ancestors]: anti-science, anti-Darwinism, Kenya, religious right
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty1Bo6GmPqM video] debunking the Discovery Institute's list of "scientists" who reject evolution
* [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/even_sleazier_than_the_di.php 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===
* [http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006876.html 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)
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1SC7fdlSY U.S. Marines Invade Manhattan, New York!]: "Iraq Veterans Against the War" demonstrate US military brutality (for Issuepedia)
* [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oil-money_slymay01,0,7290713.story 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)
* [http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=53691&sectionid=351020201 Wolfowitz: Iraq occupation ended in 2004]: we're no longer occupying Iraq, we're just kind of ''there''. (Our mission to spread <s>American sovereignty</s>democracy 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.)
* [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_MISSION_ACCOMPLISHED?SITE=NJVIN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT 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?
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt69AKYlIWA Mark Anderson speaks on the current economic crisis] (for Issuepedia)
===2008-04-30===
* [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/280756118/wheaton_is_a_weird_place.php Wheaton is a weird place] (for Issuepedia)
===2008-04-29===
* Stuff for ResearchBuy:
** [http://researchwikis.com/index.php?title=User:Staddon/Main_Page_2008_rework&action=edit editing Main Page revision]
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox Inputbox extension]
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix Extension Matrix], in case Inputbox isn't it
* [http://www.messedupamerica.com/ Messed Up America]: blog here? Maybe try to plant seeds of United Members of Civilization idea?
* [http://www.european-viewpoint.com/nekkid-blogger/whats-wrong-with-american-banks/ What's wrong with American banks?]: does this belong in HTYP, or Issuepedia? Some new pages to create, either way.
* [http://blog.steinberg.org/?p=7 group think]: computer models of crowd behavior
* Semantic Mediawiki:
** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_MediaWiki Extension:Semantic MediaWiki]
** [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Semantic_search Help:Semantic search]
* [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/04/gop-version-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-truth.html#comments The GOP version of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell..." (the truth)]: still reading this; start right after anonymous Navy comment
* [http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm Bush book, Chapter 2]: still reading this; I think I've already linked it in Issuepedia
* [http://www.globalintegrity.org/ 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"?
* [http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks_and_Internet_Censorship_-_a_comparative_study Wikileaks and Internet Censorship - a comparative study]: for Issuepedia, War on the Internet
* [http://www.parasiticmeme.com/?p=21 CNN/FOX/ABC/CBS/(MS)NBC vs. the Reverend Jeremiah Wright]: for Issuepedia
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikiwyg Extension:Wikiwyg]: something I was going to try on dev.psycrit.org and then ResearchWikis if it's not too problematic
* [http://issuepedia.org/Talk:Main_Page a reminder] that Issuepedia Francaise wants an easy way to create a new article
* [http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/ Auto Parts Warehouse] for HTYP
** [http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/search/parts.php?N=11158+1668+4294966693&ddKeyword= Benz 1983 380SEL]: for [[Janis Jalopy]] page
* [http://www.ilike.com/forartists iLike]: sign up. Eventually.
* Kaltura: [http://www.kaltura.com/wiki/index.php/MediaWiki_Extension MediaWiki Extension], [http://www.kaltura.com/index.php/static/partners partners] (sign up?)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eric_Bouliane/MWCalendar MWCalendar]: useful for HypertWiki?
* [http://fr.issuepedia.org/R%C3%A9cession_mondiale Récession mondiale]: translate and comment
* [http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DHS_transition_planning_goes_deeper_than_0417.html DHS transition planning goes 'deeper than normal']: for Issuepedia
* [http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/06/02/far06001.html Top 10 'Conspiracy Theories' about George W. Bush, Part 1]: is this actually useful (for Issuepedia)?
** [http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/all-conspiracy-theories-about-george-w.html All the "Conspiracy Theories" About George W. Bush have come true]: related (same question)


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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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