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[[Category:Contributors]]This is Woozle's "internal" page, for making notes on things; you are welcome to poke around in this area all you like, but most of it probably won't mean much to you.
==Introduction to Woozles==
A [[wikipedia:woozle|woozle]] is a phenomenon caused by obsessively following one's own footsteps while thinking you are covering new ground. The presence of a woozle generally can be taken as an indication that you have become too focused on your immediate task and need to take a look at the larger picture in order to see where you have gone wrong.
==Introduction to This Woozle==
This particular woozle can be found in various places on the internet, especially [[SluggySquad]] (where it is usually "TheWoozle", just so you don't confuse it with any other woozles) and [[Issuepedia:Issuepedia|Issuepedia]] (where it spends way too much time quietly editing wiki pages instead of writing blog entries like all the sensible people do).


Woozle needs to organize this page better. It should be ''easy'', right? Right.
'''Woozle's "external" page for general public consumption is [[Woozle|here]]'''.
==Practical Stuff==
==Practical Stuff==
* [[Contact]] Woozle and/or [[Harena]]
* [[/help needed]]
* [[Woozle's Projects]]
* [[Woozle's Projects]]: outdated page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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*[[/Childrearing|Childrearing]]
*[[/Childrearing|Childrearing]]
See also [[issuepedia:User:Woozle|Issuepedia]], where I've written a lot of stuff, and the [[:category:woozle|Woozle]] category.
See also [[issuepedia:User:Woozle|Issuepedia]], where I've written a lot of stuff, and the [[:category:woozle|Woozle]] category.
==Bookmarks==
Most of my bookmarks get filed in [[HTYP]] or [[Issuepedia]], but sometimes I just don't have time to file everything and I dump them here so I can close tabs in Firefox.
===Media===
* [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)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/Gary_Webb2 Gary Webb: In his own words (2004)]
====already watched====
* [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/126361340/intellectual_passion.php] links to video of Digby defending progressive politics
* [[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
===Archives===
* [[/2008]]
===2009-03-21===
* '''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]
* '''2006-12-26'''
** [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)]
** [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
* '''2009-01-19''' [http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/the-curmudgeons-amendment/ The Curmudgeon's Amendment]
* '''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.
* '''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
* '''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
* '''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
* '''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
* '''2009-03-03'''
** [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/john-yoos-legal-groundwor_b_171552.html John Yoo's Legal Groundwork for Subverting the Republic]
** [http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/03/me_google_re_change_congress.html Lessig @ Google]: '''video''' to watch
** [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?
* '''2009-03-16''' [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/03/16/how-rich-countries-die/ How Rich Countries Die]
* '''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]
* '''2009-03-19'''
** [http://www.cnbc.com/id/29769858 What the Pros Say: US Is Now 'Bankrupt']
** [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]
** [http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/clips/president-obama-319/1067541/ Obma on The Tonight Show] (video)
* '''To contact for Josh''':
** <s>[http://www.lssp.org/how_to_get_help.html Legal Services of Southern Piedmont]</s>: done 2009-03-22
** [http://www.aci-nc.org/dnn/ContactACI/tabid/62/Default.aspx Autism Community Initiative]
** [http://www.rsi-nc.org/contact%20us/contact_us.htm Residential Services, Inc.]
** [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?
* '''File on HTYP''':
** [http://www.evilesq.com/about/ EvilEsq]: The Bar Association for Evil Attorneys
*** [http://twitter.com/EvilEsq Twitter channel]
** [http://www.lssp.org/what_we_do.html Legal Services of Southern Piedmont]
** [http://renu.citizenre.com/ CitizenRe]: rent your solar power
** [http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/duc.ducpp19300401WC0339/pg.1/ Duke West Campus under construction]
** [https://www.spectrumresourcesofnc.net/ Spectrum Resources of NC]
** [http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html Linux-based wall-wart computer]
** [http://www.kosmix.com/ Kosmix]: sort of a 3G search engine?
** [http://www.child-autism-parent-cafe.com/index.html Child-Autism-Parent-Cafe]
* [http://www.doodle.com/ Doodle]: online polling and scheduling
* [http://politicalcompass.org/iconochasms Iconochasms]: some quotes to check and file; also file the site under [[issuepedia:Political Spectra]]
* [http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2009/03/are_you_a_progressive.php Stranger Fruit]: commentary on the "are you a progressive?" test
* 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]
===2009-02-13===
* '''2009-01-05''' [http://suicidegirls.com/news/geek/23482/ An Open Kindle] by Mur Lafferty: an unexpected security hazard...
* '''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
* '''2009-02-02'''
** [http://www.physorg.com/news152812170.html Neurobiologist Proposes 'The End Of Sex As We Once Knew It']
** [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
** [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB123353276749137485.html How Government Prolonged the Depression]: more right-wing talking points packaged as a WSJ editorial
** [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"
* [http://www.ptua.org.au/myths/lightrail.shtml Myth: Heavy rail costs too much; we should build light rail instead]
* [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
* [http://entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com/2009/01/why-progressive-conservatism-seems.html The Great Progressive Conservative vs. Rational Liberal Debate @ ETEV]
===2009-02-12===
* [http://www.idealist.org/en/about/firsttime.html idealist.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
==Customization==
''see [[project:Configuration]]''
==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.

Latest revision as of 17:29, 5 January 2023

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

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

Practical Stuff

Pages to Keep Track of

Somewhat Esoteric Stuff

Somewhat Outdated Stuff

  • /archive: stuff that's no longer current/needed but is being kept for reference
  • /notes: place to ditch bits of text I don't want to delete

Other places to find me

Essays

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

Bookmarks

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

Media

already watched

Archives

2009-03-21

2009-02-13

2009-02-12

2009-01-22

Customization

see project:Configuration

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.
wiki file: https://hypertwins.org/mw/index.php?title=User:Woozle&oldid=23995