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Note to smarmy jerks who go snooping around user pages and then loudly proclaiming that they "understand" what I'm about better for spying on my works-in-progress than they would by listening to what I'm saying: Get a fucking life and get off my back.
Existing articles to work on
Scientology vs. the Internet
While the Church issued an official statement (*) claiming that it was only taking legal action to combat hate speech, critics accused it of surpressing freedom of speech, and pointed out that under Church doctrine any opposition of Scientology comes from a hateful person (**) and can be considered hate speech.
- The existing write-up is so POV I'd rather have some details on this statement: when was it issued, what exactly did it say?
- This gets the point across, I think, but I'd like to look up the actual relevant Church doctrines to get it word-for-word, if possible.
List of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics
Lots of Blue Oyster Cult; do they have a page yet?
Also Billy Joel, Summer Highland Falls and Police, Synchronicity II
Dr. Mabuse article
should probably include link to Propaganda re: their song.
[1] (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.deutscher-tonfilm.de/njacques1.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Norbert%2BJacques%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG)
Narbonic article
Taking Kevin and Kell as a model:
- About the strip
- Setting and characters
- Other significant characters
- Storyline
- External links
- Kevin and Kell comics online
- Other resources
To be done: Antonio Smith did appear once more after the first story arc; he identified the handwriting of Pip the Mutant Ur-Gerbil for the Dave Conspiracy (07/09/02). Done
Also, Dave's machine talent was revealed by Helen on 08/09/02 and 08/10/02.
References:
- The Fly (the 80's movie)
- Little Nemo In Slumberland
- The Cold Equations
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Flowers for Algernon
Done
The Victorian Narbonic
Publication schedule
Originally, the strip was planned to run seven days a week, with all strips contributing to the ongoing storyline and the Sunday comic larger and in color. This schedule turned out to be draining, and it was quickly changed to the schedule it now keeps: storyline strips run Monday through Saturday, and Sunday may
Lil Mell and Sergio
Dave Barker
Dave Barker is a real person who has been written into the strip. He was first mentioned in the Sunday strip of August 27, 2000 where the Narbonic Labs gang gathered to respond to reader letters; Barker's letter accidentally upset Helen by guessing her age to be "late 30's" when she was really 26, and also bringing up the painful fact that she wasn't really "Dr." Narbon because she'd never finished her doctorate, only her master's. By the end of the strip, Helen was ragefully announcing "I'll kill him! I'll kill MIT student Dave Barker!" and from there, her occasional plottings for revenge against "MIT student Dave Barker" became a running gag in the weekday strip.
Dave meets Dave in the unstuck in time arc
Language is a virus
This shouldn't be a redirect to "meme"; it should link to "meme" but it's hardly just that.
Arithmetic coding
LZ77 (algorithm)
While the LZ77 algorithm works on past data, the LZ78 algorithm attempts to work on future data
I'm trying to figure out why someone would believe this is correct. Both algorithms try to look ahead and find the largest chunk of yet-unencoded data starting at the current position that can be encoded by reference to past data. The actual difference is that LZ77 maintains the sliding window, and any string within that sliding window is available to be referenced; LZ78 maintains the dictionary, to which entries are added at a much slower rate but can be accessed at a lower average cost.
Mordant's Need
Stolen Honor
[2] (http://slate.msn.com/id/2108458/)
[3] (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/9921923.htm?1c) -- now needs registration
Cilk
/Cilk cilk
spawn
sync
inlet
abort
Cilk is a general-purpose programming language for multithreaded concurrent programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style.
Cilk is particularly effective for programming numerical algorithms, such as matrix factorization and N-body simulations, both dense and sparse. Cilk's runtime system employs a scheduler that allows the performance of programs to be estimated accurately.
Three world-class chess programs have been programmed in Cilk: StarTech, *Socrates, and Cilkchess.
Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for parallel programming.
"data-parallel" seems to mean that large data sets are processed in parallel by processors performing identical computations. See [4] (http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/498/notes/node42.html). Not a horribly useful point to explain what Cilk is.
-- turn all explanations of the relation between C and Cilk into one paragraph
Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for parallel programming.
The major design principle behind Cilk is that the programmer should concentrate on exposing opportunities for parallelism
Basic parallelism with Cilk
Advanced parallelism with Cilk
inlets
Dictionary coder
Jason Scott (Life Tabernacle Church)
Polymorphism in object-oriented programming
Zaat
Roughnecks
Monty Hall problem/temp1
Swing Out Sister
Remove self-reference, include mention of "Breakout" (when/where/how big was it a hit?)
http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_3342.html <= top 10 in US, more hits in UK?
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Learned helplessness
If that's Tony Robbins (and even if it isn't) get some more academic/credible references for the terminology.
Theory originated with Martin Seligman
http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/discouragement/helplessness.html
Scientology
Resummarize Scientology controversy -- edit down Snow White and describe major points of controversy.
- Probably not needed now, Modemac seems to have done it.
Fanon
Definition needs to be corrected; currently it reads as if saying "it's information that's perfectly true, only the creators don't know it yet."
Kaiju Big Battel
listed for tone and technical cleanup
Big Bad Beetleborgs
spelling, wikilinks, organization, links to original series
Bead sort
What it's not good for (like sorting where the largest number is large, since the numbers are represented in unary)
[[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rape&diff=0&oldid=14412614|Rape)]
- Revise custodial rape section to clarify that it includes rape of persons under custody whether they are being "protected" or punished.
- Shift discussion of prison rape in "rape as punishment" section to custodial rape section and replace with notation in punishment section.
- Note opposing viewpoint that it is male-on-male prison rape that is not taken seriously, incl. for the reason that rape of males is not taken as seriously as it should.
- Note that many commentators spoke jokingly or seriously of John Wayne Bobbitt receiving his just rewards for crimes he had been accused of, but acquitted of. (or is that too far off-topic?)
Articles to be created
/David F. Friedman
/Something Weird Video
Founded by Mike Vraney
/List of mythological allusions
Qualifications: should be a reference which an average educated speaker will understand the meaning of even if they don't know the story behind it.
/Don't Fear The Reaper
/Frame (computer science)
/Lawrence Trant
/Getter Robo
Getter Robo - 1974
- Professor Saotome
- Michiru (daughter)
- Musashi
Getter Robo G - next year?
Sequels: Neo Getter Robo, Shin Getter Robo?
Original series (http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,645,ywiedd,getta_robo.html) useful background info (http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue221/anime.html)
Create redirects for Getta Robo, Getter Robo G, Getta Robo G, Starvengers etc.
/List of The Prisoner episodes
/Wikipedia:Forking
Other things to work on
Special characters problem
' (apostrophe typed at keyboard)
now, C&P from Gamaliel version of Stolen Honor page:
Mark Nevins, a spokeman for the Kerry presidential campaign, stated: "This group is the poor, distant cousin of the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush. It?s comprised of people with questionable backgrounds whose sole mission in life is to smear John Kerry." [6] (http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1675&dept_id=18171&newsid=12894483&PAG=461&rfi=9)
According to conservative commentator Deroy Murdock: "It presents POWs who argue that John Kerry's fallacious spring 1971 claims that U.S. atrocities occurred on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command' amplified their agony under America's North Vietnamese enemies." [7] (http://www.modbee.com/24hour/opinions/story/1679939p-9444706c.html)
The production company's website states that "Stolen Honor investigates how John Kerry?s actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry?s own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry?s actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement." [8] (http://www.stolenhonor.com/documentary/index.asp)
aha! Preview shows that apostrophes do become ?s!
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