Issuepedia:Filing Room/to file

This page is for miscellaneous bits of information which might be useful in the future.

To File

2007-02

• 2007-02-16 Texas Republicans are anti-Copernicus: the Flat Earth Society lives!
  • 2007-02-09 Tax-supported "evolution science" now unlawful under the Constitution, from Warren Chisum
• Myths about the developing world, a TEDtalk by Hans Rosling: includes demonstration of very interesting dynamic graphing system, and description of efforts to make global economic information more easily available

2007-01

• found 2007-01-13: Text and Collaboration: A personal manifesto for the Text Outline Project by Larry Sanger (on back burner "until 2007 or 2008"): some interesting and possibly useful observations on collaborative knowledge-building and decisionmaking
• 2007-01-11 Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual: Redux: accelerating change, anthropic principle, artificial general intelligence, augmented reality, Bayesian Rationality, Cosmological Eschatology (aka physical eschatology), Engineered Negligible Senescence, existential risks, extended identity, Fermi Paradox, friendly AI, human enhancement (guided evolution), human exceptionalism (a.k.a. human speciesism, human raceism, human superiority, etc.), information theoretic death, mass automation, memetic engineering, mind transfer, molecular assembler, neurodiversity, neural interface device, noosphere, open source, participatory panopticon, political globalization, post-scarcity economy, quantum computation, radical luddism, remedial ecology, simulation argument, soft paternalism, technological singularity
• found 2007-01-11: Cryptome: what exactly does this site do, and is it useful?

2006-12

• found 2006-12-15:
  • Dark Christianity: "Exploring and Exposing Dominionist Christianity"
  • Counselling by the Bible, Creation, Charismatic errors, Essays by Malcolm Bowden
  • ThinkProgress
  • 2005 Economics diary/blog by John Baez: includes discussions of ecology and related fields; links to 2004 and 2003 diaries
• found 2006-12-12: Overcoming Bias blog
• found 2006-12-08: Conspiracy Theories: may be trying to discredit any kind of conspiracy theory, or may be simply trying to bring some rationality to the discussion; worth examining for points of attack on any conspiracy theory including 9/11-related

2006-11

• 2006-11-15 Message To West Point: an excerpt from the Sol Feinstone Lecture on The Meaning of Freedom by Bill Moyers: makes salient points on a number of significant issues
• these colors... not so much "run" as "fade" (image, for possible article on how patriotism gets all caught up in symbolism, especially about the flag, and forgets about realities)
• relevant bits for eventual articles on Israel, Palestine, Middle East: Munich massacre, Operation Wrath of God, Yasser Arafat, Fatah (secular), Hamas (Islamic)
• found 2006-11-21; Crisis in the Middle East: Bloggers Report: links to blogs based in the Middle East

2006-10

• 2006-10-17 The Anti-Paranoid Style in American Politics: article about how it seems to be fashionable to dismiss conspiracy theories by simply labeling them as "conspiracy theories", rather than actually discussing the alleged facts. Comments mention Project MKULTRA, an actual CIA project which sounds like raving paranoia when taken out of context. Possibly for conspiracy theories article? Article about how useless the press is these days?
• found 2006-10-06: Gary Trauner, Wyoming Democrat for Congress

2006-09

• found 2006-09-22: Ricardo Semler – some interesting business ideas applied successfully in the real world
• found 2006-09-19, 2 similar essays by Sheldon S. Wolin: Inverted Totalitarianism (2003-05-01) and A Kind of Fascism Is Replacing Our Democracy (2003-07-18)
• 2006-09-07: Islam-Haters: An Enemy Within by Ralph Peters: against extremism in any form
• found 2006-09-11 (dated 1999-12) book reviews: Forcing God’s Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture—And the Destruction of Planet Earth and One Nation Under Israel

2006-08

• 2006-08-28: discussion section in "Ironies Compounded by Ironies..." has some considerable discussion along the lines of modernism vs. romanticism or perhaps enlightenment vs. feudalism
• 2006-08-17: Federal judge rules warrantless wiretapping surveillance program unconstitutional (Associated Press)
• found 2006-08-15: The Department of Homeland Stupidity

2006-07

• 2006-07-17: America’s Broken Bootstraps by Leanne Shear, WireTap
  • references 2004-12-29 Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend
• 2006-07-07:
  • Russia's Signal to Stations Is Clear: Cut U.S. Radio Censorship on the rise again in the former Soviet Union?
  • Al-Qaeda 'bid to infiltrate MI5' (related: [1]) story includes a number of interesting details:
    • Al Qaeda is perhaps not as fragmented (post-Afghanistan) as some have claimed
    • "the flow of new [terrorism-related] cases shows no sign of abating - if anything it is accelerating."
    • polls indicate that around 400,000 people in the UK are sympathetic to violent jihad around the world
    • "The editor of al-Hayat newspaper in London, Maher Othman, believes that humiliation is now a major factor in radicalising someone to the point of violence."

2006-06

• found 2006-06-18: The Birth of War by R. Brian Ferguson: preliminary results of a survey of war in early civilization indicates that it wasn't as common as previously thought
• 2006-06-12: The Mommy Wage Gap: gender issues, family values...
• found 2006-06-09: Milgram experiment – for eventual article on Psychology? Also ChangingMinds
• 2006-06-08: Anonymity in the Age of Full Disclosure by Elizabeth Daley, WireTap
• found 2006-06-08: WorldNetDaily: described elsewhere as "extreme right-wing"; is it? It certainly seems conservative/Christian in general nature...

2006-05

• found 2006-05-31: Alliance for the Separation of School and State (alt)
• 2006-05-19:
  • http://www.alternet.org/story/36328/ How the Right Stole the '60s by Astra Taylor, AlterNet: makes some interesting allegations which deserve further research
  • found: Moderate Voters .org and Judicial Watch
• 2006-05-16: How the Drug Companies Want Us to Be Sick by Stan Cox, AlterNet (for eventual alternative medicine article?)
• 2006-05-15: Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You're Calling: check out the "comments" section, and note that there is no evidence (either in the article or in comments) that ABC was in any way involved with obtaining classified information (slashdot)

2006-04

• http://www.samizdata.net/ seems to be primarily British, but I haven't read it thoroughly
• 2006-04-05: a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write ... will open your personal information to warrantless searches: as I understand it, this might even apply to any titchy little utility you download off the net; if the EULA gives the software author permission to mess with your hard drive, then they can do so and you couldn't take any action against them. Picture virus authors putting together quicky "helpful" utilities and slapping on a permissive EULA just to get legal access to more computers.

2006-03

• 2006-03-26 Military's 'good Muslim' to speak at Duke: James Yee was held on charges "which later evaporated"
• 2006-03-11 Former top Bush aide arrested for theft: need to accumulate a list of wrongdoings in Bush's administration versus those in previous administrations; Brin often states that Clinton's administration had not one single conviction (how many accusations, and from whom?)

2006-02

• found 2006-02-16:
  • Artificial Intelligence From the Bible: file under Unusual interpretations of the Bible, maybe? Main site seems to be crusading against scientific fundamentalism, so should probably be filed somewhere too.
  • xshirox journal entry: maybe for page listing Interesting Discussions on topics that don't necessarily fit squarely into an Issuepedia page but nonetheless touch on a lot of relevant topics
• 2006-02-09 Your taste in music is shaped by the crowd agrees with the more general study in consumer bias favors market leader

2006-01

• 2006-01-30 What pit bulls can teach us about profiling: a lesson in the importance of analysis in policymaking
• found 2006-01-30: Kleercut: Kimberly-Clark's destructive tree harvesting practices (corporations article?)
• 2006-01-25
  • Monkey cops keep clans together: material for possible article on human social organization (here or in Soc/Psych section of HTYP?)
  • Hurricane Katrina: Who was hit? Who will return?
  • EVEN WITH MORE FREE TIME, WOMEN FEEL NO LESS RUSHED, STUDY FINDS
• 2006-01-24 Unhappy marriages detrimental to self-esteem and health
• found 2006-01-19 Republicans for Humility "Country before Party"; Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances
• found 2006-01-18 A Force More Powerful: seems related to Anti-War
• 2006-01-11 New Orleans residents bulldoze city workers: the real estate industry is apparently using "cleanup" as an excuse to claim property in NOLA; see also The Second Battle of New Orleans
• 2006-01-10 Anthroposophic lifestyle reduces risk of allergic disease in children: for alternative medicine article either here or in HTYP (homeopathy)
• found 2006-01-10: [2] [3] - possible fodder for more Rhetorical Deceptions
• 2006-01-09 Role models influence ethical behavior
• 2006-01-08 GMOs: Unborn babies could be harmed: data that GMOs are harmful, and also GWB wants to force Europe to use them
• found 2006-01-07
  • The Future Is Here, But Do News Media Companies See It?: possible inspiration for a discussion of how newspapers should maintain an online Issuepedia-like catalog of leads, photos, data, etc. as part of the process of reinventing themselves
  • Is religion a virus?
  • Rhetorical Goons: about debating with Christians
  • What to do about rational discontents?, i.e. those who malign the idea of rational discourse
  • '2006-01-05 Abstinence is healthy goal for teenagers but research critiques abstinence-only educational policies: for eventual Sex Education article
• 2006-01-04
  • 13 things that do not make sense: includes interesting results on the placebo effect, homeopathy, and cold fusion
  • Abramoff pleads guilty in lobbying scandal: background on Jack Abramoff and other NeoCons
• 2006-01-03
  • Exploring the limits of presidential power after 9/11
  • New study links reputation to media bias

2005-12

• 2005-12-21 Fear of death may factor into who we vote for: specifically, subtle reminders of mortality caused people to switch votes from Kerry to Bush
• 2005-12-15 Emphasis on individuality in college admissions disadvantages minority students: culture does matter
• 2005-12
  • American Rapture: more evangelical connections to the White House
  • Rapture Ready: more evangelism
• 2005-12-08 NASA's AURA Satellite Peers Into Earth's Ozone Hole and it was smaller this year, but maybe only because of global warming
• found 2005-12-05: http://www.funnystrange.com/quiz/ -- Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Usama bin Laden seem to agree about an awful lot (including, though not mentioned here, Falwell's attempt to shift the blame for 9/11: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way – all of them who have tried to secularize America – I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'")
• 2005-12-02 The War on Christmas

2005-11

• 2005-11-24 Memo May Have Swayed Plan B Ruling: conservative doctor's "minority report" may have nixed contraceptive drug
• 2005-11-11 The Greening of China
• 2005-11-09 U.S. usage of white phosphorus in Fallujah
• 2005-11-08
  • It's Chalabi Day!
  • McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture
  • Rainforest Conservation Worth The Cost, University Of Alberta Shows for eventual article on biodiversity
• 2005-11-07 TomDispatch: as of 11/7, lots of interesting bits about various Bush administration shenanigans
• 2005-11-06 The Week in Sustainable Vehicles: some links relevant to global warming , dependence on oil
• 2005-11-06 Renewable Energy's Investment Hockey Stick: renewable energy investment appears to be on the verge of taking off
• 2005-11-04 Cheney Pushes Senate for CIA Exemption: interesting glimpse of Dick Cheney's position on torture
• China, Tibet and Chinese nation: China's official (?) position on Tibet

2005 ??

• Network 2005 (free video, with reviews): 'A professor and 60 Minutes producer speaks candidly about the impetus for suppression of reality in media coverage of the so-called "war on terror".'
• found 2005-11-22 Religious Tolerance: much discussion and research
• found 2005-06-09 Marc Perkel: some interesting links, though the text is a bit dated
• found 2005-06-03 The Downing Street Memo

Earlier

• 2004-11-29 The Infamous Brad - Christians in the Hand of an Angry God: part 1 part 2 part 3 by J. Brad Hicks
• 2003-07-07 http://www.opinionjournal.com/medialog/?id=110003713 for eventual page on Ann Coulter

Done

• (done 2006-01-10) 2005-12-22 Banter over Bias Shields the Real Problem of the Media: possibly for Moving the Fulcrum article (Moving the Center?) See also I Drew This: [4] [5]