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'''Woozle's "external" page for general public consumption is [[Woozle|here]]'''.
'''Woozle's "external" page for general public consumption is [[Woozle|here]]'''.
==Practical Stuff==
==Practical Stuff==
* [[/help needed]]
* [[Woozle's Projects]]: outdated page
* [[Woozle's Projects]]: outdated page
** [[Woozle's audio projects|audio projects]], with lots of free downloads
** [[Woozle's audio projects|audio projects]], with lots of free downloads
* [[:category:woozle|Woozle]] category: writings, pictures, stuff, things.
* [[:category:woozle|Woozle]] category: writings, pictures, stuff, things.
* '''Résumé''': I don't think I believe in résumés anymore, but my family gives me a hard time whenever I try to reinvent the idea so as to be less painful.
===Pages to Keep Track of===
** [[Woozle's Official Glossy Brochure]]: I prefer this title, but...
* Scribunto stuff:
** [[Résumé - Nick Staddon]] is the same thing with a more standard title
** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto
** [[/rez|actual page for editing]]
*** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual
*** https://www.lua.org/docs.html
** [[Module:Blog]] - place where I was going to put the blogging code
** [[Module:Demo]] - sandbox
===Somewhat Esoteric Stuff===
===Somewhat Esoteric Stuff===
* [[Anna Nikola|The Anna Page]] for family consumption ([[:Category:Anna Nikola]] has all the pictures)
* [[Anna Nikola|The Anna Page]] for family consumption ([[:Category:Anna Nikola]] has all the pictures)
* [[:Category:Woozle]] has images and links to other Woozle-related stuff
* [[:Category:Woozle]] has images and links to other Woozle-related stuff
* Apparently David Oates played one of my comedy bits on his WUGA radio show, [http://www.wuga.org/great_apes.html Great Apes]. Who knew.
* Apparently David Oates played one of my comedy bits on his WUGA radio show, [http://www.wuga.org/great_apes.html Great Apes]. Who knew.
* [[/tabdump]]: where I put links to web pages I don't have time to file properly
===Somewhat Outdated Stuff===
===Somewhat Outdated Stuff===
* [[User:Woozle/Right_Now|What Woozle Is Doing Right Now]] <nowiki><-- answer to popular question</nowiki>
* [[/archive]]: stuff that's no longer current/needed but is being kept for reference
* [[User:Woozle_To-Do|To Do List]]
* [[/notes]]: place to ditch bits of text I don't want to delete
* [[/notes]]: place to ditch stuff I don't want to delete
=== Other places to find me ===
=== Other places to find me ===
* [[htyp:User:Woozle|HTYP]]
* [[htyp:User:Woozle|HTYP]]
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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.
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===
===Media===
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3505348655137118430 The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis]: 1987 Bill Moyers documentary
* [http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-14-assets-demographics The Crash Course: Chapter 14] (so I can close the tab, which insists on reloading itself every minute or two)
===2008-07-16===
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Gary_Webb2 Gary Webb: In his own words (2004)]
* http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html
====already watched====
===2008-07-01===
* [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/126361340/intellectual_passion.php] links to video of Digby defending progressive politics
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...
* [[googlevideo:3505348655137118430|The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis]]: 1987 Bill Moyers documentary
* '''2008-06-30''' [http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16044.html Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend]
* http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
* '''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)
===Archives===
* '''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]]
* '''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]
===2009-03-21===
** commentary: [http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/gop_candidates_republicans_who.php TPM]
* '''2003-06-29''' [http://www.apa.org/releases/driving_workload.html MORE COMPLICATED MENTAL TASKS INTERFERE WITH DRIVERS' ABILITY TO DETECT AND DISCRIMINATE AMONG VISUAL TARGETS]
* '''2006-11-30''' [http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/11/animations_of_urogenital_devel.php Animations of urogenital development] for gender site
* '''2006-12-26'''
* [http://openid.net/developers/ OpenID developer info]
** [http://theopinionmill.wordpress.com/2006/12/26/the-blighted-bookshelf-or-the-ten-most-damaging-winger-books-of-all-time-6705/ The Blighted Bookshelf, or, The Ten Most Damaging Winger Books of All Time (6/7/05)]
* '''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://theopinionmill.wordpress.com/2006/12/26/united-scatinos-of-america-8205/ United Scatinos of America (8/2/05)]: I thought I already filed something which made a very similar argument... find it, and tie it together with this
* [http://feingold.senate.gov/issues_fisafacts.html The New FISA Bill: A Bad Deal] by Senator Russ Feingold
* '''2009-01-19''' [http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/the-curmudgeons-amendment/ The Curmudgeon's Amendment]
* '''2006-11-22''' [http://www.buridansass.com/index.php?/buridan/what_the_hell_is_an_evangelical_atheist/ What the hell is an evangelical atheist?]
* '''2009-02-14''' [http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2009/02/14/were-all-fascists-now-ii-american-tyranny/ We're All Fascists Now II: American Tyranny]: something JERS forwarded; try to figure out what its argument is. There was some email discussion.
* '''2006-08-15''' [http://byneddiejingo.blogspot.com/2006/08/achieving-representation.html Achieving Representation]: about the infamous Iraq Invasion Powerpoint
* '''2009-02-21''' [http://www.businessinsider.com/the-housing-chart-thats-worth-1000-words-2009-2 The Housing Chart That's Worth 1000 Words]: a history of home values
* '''2006-08-08''' [http://armsandinfluence.typepad.com/armsandinfluence/2006/08/death_by_powerp.html Death by PowerPoint]: and more about it
* '''2009-02-24''' [http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/02/house-prices-real-prices-price-to-rent.html House Prices: Real Prices, Price-to-Rent, and Price-to-Income]: blog may be worth following too
* '''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
* '''2009-02-25''' [http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/what-should-government-do-a-jindal-meditation/ What should government do? A Jindal meditation] by Paul Krugman
* '''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."
* '''2009-02-28''' [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-hour-discurso_27.html En Tequila]: I attempt to ask What's So Terrible About Socialism in a comment
** Since the "morality" of torture is now irrelevant, can we also say it's irrelevant with regard to abortion too?
* '''2009-03-03'''
* '''2001-09''' [http://ffrf.org/timely/dawkins.php Time to Stand Up] by Richard Dawkins: active atheism
** [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/john-yoos-legal-groundwor_b_171552.html John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic]
* '''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
** [http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/me_google_re_change_congress.html Lessig @ Google]: '''video''' to watch
* '''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
** [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-one-of-biggest-tax-cuts-in-history.html En Tequila] post has comment by me followed by WOWZOMGBBQ insanely long comment from Anonymous. Worth anything?
* '''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")
* '''2009-03-16''' [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/03/16/how-rich-countries-die/ How Rich Countries Die]
* [[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]]
* '''2009-03-18''' [http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/18/wilkerson-cheney-evil/ Colin Powell's former chief of staff: Cheney is "evil", his fearmongering is "assisting" al Qaeda]
* '''2007-10-21''' [http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/10/21/co-constructing-politics/ Co-constructing politics]: another article mentioning Issuepedia
* '''2009-03-19'''
* [[google:1-866-HERETIC]] - for htyp page, and link from appropriate issuepedia page
** [http://www.cnbc.com/id/29769858 What the Pros Say: US Is Now 'Bankrupt']
* '''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]
** [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_wrongly_held Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent]
* '''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://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/clips/president-obama-319/1067541/ Obma on The Tonight Show] (video)
* [http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2 ISP's confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends']
* '''To contact for Josh''':
** [http://ipower.ning.com/groups IPower Most Active Groups]: might be a good place to get a discussion going about InstaGov
** <s>[http://www.lssp.org/how_to_get_help.html Legal Services of Southern Piedmont]</s>: done 2009-03-22
*** How do you add an [http://ipower.ning.com/infopage infopage] on Ning? Can you add other pages?
** [http://www.aci-nc.org/dnn/ContactACI/tabid/62/Default.aspx Autism Community Initiative]
* [http://browsershots.org/ BrowserShots]: useful tool, need to file somewhere ([[htyp:web development]]?)
** [http://www.rsi-nc.org/contact%20us/contact_us.htm Residential Services, Inc.]
* '''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.
** [https://www.spectrumresourcesofnc.net/Family_Consultation.html Spectrum Resources - Family Consultation]: possibly explain the situation to them and see if they can offer anything worth our time?
* '''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
* '''File on HTYP''':
* '''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]]
** [http://www.evilesq.com/about/ EvilEsq]: The Bar Association for Evil Attorneys
* '''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...)
*** [http://twitter.com/EvilEsq Twitter channel]
* 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...
** [http://www.lssp.org/what_we_do.html Legal Services of Southern Piedmont]
* '''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://renu.citizenre.com/ CitizenRe]: rent your solar power
** [http://www.presdo.com/about Presdo]
** [http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/duc.ducpp19300401WC0339/pg.1/ Duke West Campus under construction]
** [http://iwantsandy.com/ IWantSandy]
** [https://www.spectrumresourcesofnc.net/ Spectrum Resources of NC]
* '''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?
** [http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html Linux-based wall-wart computer]
* '''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
** [http://www.kosmix.com/ Kosmix]: sort of a 3G search engine?
* [[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.child-autism-parent-cafe.com/index.html Child-Autism-Parent-Cafe]
* [http://www.discoursedb.org/wiki/Post-invasion_Iraq Post-invasion Iraq] at Discourse DB, which needs further investigation and probably an interwiki entry
* [http://www.doodle.com/ Doodle]: online polling and scheduling
* 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://politicalcompass.org/iconochasms Iconochasms]: some quotes to check and file; also file the site under [[issuepedia:Political Spectra]]
* [http://www.sl4.org/wiki/KnowabilityOfFAI KnowabilityOfFAI] at SL4wiki, which could probably also use further investigation and an interwiki.
* [http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2009/03/are_you_a_progressive.php Stranger Fruit]: commentary on the "are you a progressive?" test
* [http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/ MisterHouse]: for [[htyp:home automation]]
* http://www.thejesusmyth.com/whoever-is-not-with-me-is-against-me.htm - can I swipe their social bookmarking bar?
* [http://www.atheistview.com/ Atheist View]
* [http://www.tirerack.com/ TireRack.com]: spare wheel rim for minivan
* '''embeddable players''' - to investigate:
** [http://flowplayer.org/#scripting Flowplayer]
** [http://www.osflv.com/Documentation/flv.html OS FLV]: open-source embeddable FLV player
* [http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter.aspx AVS Video Converter]
* [http://seasteading.org/stay-in-touch/blog/3 Seasteading: Captain's Blog]


===from RSS feeds===
===2009-02-13===
* '''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]
* '''2009-01-05''' [http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/23482/ An Open Kindle] by Mur Lafferty: an unexpected security hazard...
* '''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
* '''2009-01-26''' [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482264,00.html Scientist Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet]: headline is worthy of the National Enquirer when compared to the content, but article still seems to include some technical-ish details
* '''2006-11-06''' [http://prettyfakes.com/?p=862 “America is a piece of trash!”]: the American ideal via a comic book superhero
* '''2009-02-02'''
* '''2008-06-21''' [http://www.planetary.org/news/2008/0621_Phoenix_Scientists_Confirm_WaterIce_on.html Phoenix finds water ice]: for [[htyp:Mars]]
** [http://www.physorg.com/news152812170.html Neurobiologist Proposes 'The End Of Sex As We Once Knew It']
* '''2008-06-06''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/06/BL2008060602283_pf.html The Propaganda Campaign Dissected]
** [http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/02/the_end_of_the_culture_war.php Roe and the Culture War]: Ross Douthat, ugh ugh ugh... I think this is a link that Progressive Conservative posted for me to read
* '''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)
** [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123353276749137485.html How Government Prolonged the Depression]: more right-wing talking points packaged as a WSJ editorial
* '''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
** [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/01/AR2009020102247.html?referrer=emailarticle Seeking Help for Autistic Kids] "Va. Parents Want Insurers to Pay for Therapy, but Critics Worry About Costs"
* '''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)
* [http://www.ptua.org.au/myths/lightrail.shtml Myth: Heavy rail costs too much; we should build light rail instead]
* '''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)
* [http://web.blogads.com/adspotsfolder/ba_adspotsfolder_revision_create_shortcut?persistent_uid=8e277d60ee076bb421efd69710f5f4e6 Create ad / 9/11 Blogger: Standard]: not sure what I was thinking of advertising; Issuepedia, maybe?
* [http://www.bordeauxgroup.com/documentation/install-guide Bordeaux for Linux 1.4 Install and Usage Guide]: might want to buy this and try it; also list in HTYP under WINE add-ons
* [http://www.thevoiceofautism.org/ The Real Voices of Autism]: autism social network using Elgg


===2008-06-06===
* [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-progressive-conservatism-seems.html The Great Progressive Conservative vs. Rational Liberal Debate @ ETEV]
* 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===
===2009-02-12===
* ncwarn.org - anti-Shearon-Harris
* [http://www.idealist.org/en/about/firsttime.html idealist.org]
* ncethicalsociety.org
* [http://www.disabilityrightsnc.org/pages/70/What-We-Do/ Disability Rights NC]: to investigate for Josh
* [http://www.fullsteam.ag/2008/12/our-brewery-has-arrived/ Full Steam Brewery]
* [http://www.indabamusic.com/ Indaba Music]
* '''2008-09-17''' [http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2008/09/of-foxes-and-hen-houses.html Of Foxes And Hen Houses]
* '''2009-01-21''' [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/coyne09/coyne09_index.html DOES THE EMPIRICAL NATURE OF SCIENCE CONTRADICT THE REVELATORY NATURE OF FAITH?]
* '''2009-02-04'''
** [http://cujo359.blogspot.com/2009/02/reality-dawns-why-congress-loves-banks.html Reality Dawns: Why Congress Loves The Banks]
** [http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=1e3851a3-bdf7-438a-ac2a-a5e381a70472 Seeing and Believing]
** [http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/04/autism.resolution/index.html Teen's family transformed after autism intervention]
* '''2009-02-08''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09krugman.html The Destructive Center]
* '''2009-02-09''' [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123413741814261521.html Time to Reinvent the Web (and Save Wall Street)]
* '''2009-02-10''' [http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/02/10/first-100-days-harness-the-genie-of-citizen-engagement/ First 100 Days: Harness the genie of citizen engagement]
* '''2009-02-11''' [http://blog.jamendo.com/2009/02/11/copyright-term-extension-no-thank-you/ Copyright term extension? No thank you…]: includes video
===2009-01-22===
* '''2009-01-22'''
** [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://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/guantanamo.order/index.html Obama signs executive order to close Guantanamo Bay]
** [http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html Afghan girls maimed by acid vow to go to school]
* '''2009-01-21'''
** [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]]
** [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]
* '''2009-01-20'''
** [http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/20/ben_stein_and_history/index.html Ben Stein: Please eat your hat]
*** 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://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9122 Barack Obama's Inaugural Address]: for an eventual collection of reactions to the address
* '''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
* '''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
* '''2009-01-08''' [http://mises.org/story/3283 The Dangers of Disputing Warming Orthodoxy]: global warming conspiracy theorism
* '''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
* '''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
* '''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]
* '''2008-12-22''' [http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/12/end_the_copyright_war_now.html End the [copyright] war: NOW!]
* '''2008-12-19'''
** [http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=15088 Why Ahmadinejad Fears Khatami]
** [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)
* '''2008-11-30''' [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,635817.story The GOP's McCarthy gene]
* '''2000-05-28''' [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20000528/ai_n13949725 Lockerbie: CIA witness gagged by US government; Lockerbie trial]
* '''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?
* '''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]
** '''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]
* '''Wikipedia''': [[wikipedia:Presuppositional apologetics|Presuppositional apologetics]] ought to be linked from somewhere (Christianity?)
* [http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5767 Subject: Slaughter of the Canaanites]: how religion justifies slaughter
* [http://www.vuletic.com/hume/at/12.html The Tale of the Twelve Officers]: answers to the "problem of evil", told as a parable


===2008-05-24===
==Customization==
* [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?
''see [[project:Configuration]]''
===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===
==Notes==
* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D8735 brain's "trust" mechanism]
===Homeopathy===
* [http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=news_single.html?id%3D8730 libertarian ocean colonies]
''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...''
===2008-05-12===
:(02:33:22 PM) Woozle: Ok, theory...
* http://utahfm.org/ - from Tene
:(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.
* http://www.afajournal.org/2006/august/0806colleges.html - attending college cures fundamentalism
:(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.
* http://www.palaeos.com/ - a resource
:(02:37:44 PM) Woozle: So maybe that doesn't work.
* http://byneddiejingo.blogspot.com/2006/08/achieving-representation.html - is PowerPoint responsible for our terrible Iraq lack-of-plan?
:(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.
* 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).
:(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;
* '''2008-04-25''' http://timesonline.typepad.com/inside_iraq_weblog/2008/04/iraqi-forces-se.html - a rare report of positive progress in Iraq
:(02:41:40 PM) Woozle: (Well, not *prevents... I guess I mean "pre-empts")
* '''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]
:(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")
* '''2008-05-10''' [http://www.alternet.org/audits/85010/?page=2 Acting Locally: Will Chicago Push Back Against Iran Warmongering?]
:(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*.
* [http://technoprobe.blogspot.com/ Technoprobing]: Tom Easton has a blog; who knew?
:(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.
 
===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)
 
==Customization==
* [[/monobook.css]]: custom CSS so I can print letters directly from the wiki
** [http://htmldog.com/guides/cssadvanced/atrules/ at-rules]: how to specify media type within CSS
** [http://htmldog.com/guides/cssadvanced/layout/ Page Layout] tags which I might use later to add footers
** [[metawikipedia:Help:User style]] how this works with MediaWiki

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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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