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New Layout I recently moved iGeek from a WordPress site to a MediaWiki (Wikipedia) engine. I put a few articles I rewrote at the bottom of this page. But there are dozens I rewrote and many more added. Explore the sections to the left, or search for topics/issues/articles.

I detested WordPress with a blinding passion, from features, to code, to templates. Plus I'd setup auto-syncing with my Evernote account, and that plug-in was a disaster. When it sync'd it was great, then it fell out of sync, and would break or replicate articles dozens of times. WordPress is basically write-only memory: you can add articles in, but the experience means once they scroll off the bottom of a blog, no one wants to search for articles. Fine for a diary (assuming anyone cares). But not great for information architecture.

MediaWiki has been the opposite experience. Well architected, the features/functions are better, the default theme is close to what I was looking for (and I can easily program their template engine), and I was able to generate my own mobile friendly design without too much effort. And it's all about transclusion (including one piece of text, in many places) and references. Perfect for what I want.

Recent Posts

Politifact

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List of evidence that supports the popular opinion that PolitiFact is biased partisan hackery. Worse than that, they act like angry grade schoolers when caught, which is fairly often. So there are basically two camps: those that think PolitiFact is non-partisan, and those who know what's going on in the world.
Main article: Politifact

New York Times

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A never great News Agency has become a shadow of their former self: admittedly biased by their own Ombudsman and editors, as well as exposed confessions. They still have occasionally good content, but that can't make up for their more frequent bad, or their willingness to deceive, commit lies of omission, or present things in a biased way. (Never trusting their readership with the whole truth). More than that, some insist on idol worship for what they publish, and abject denial of their obvious and omitted bias: and that fuels the backlash against them.
Main article: New York Times

Government R&D Spending

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If you only look at the government wins in R&D, things look great. If you look at the bigger picture, you'll understand why government R&D usually has huge costs and small payouts. Politicians playing technologists, using our money, may be fun for them, or earn them votes for caring by the gullible, but it's not fair to taxpayers.

People

I re-did, and moved a ton of things to this section. So while pieces of this have been in things I wrote over the years, this a new area to explore completely.

This section is not comprehensive analysis of all the complexities of a persons life, but more the points most often brushed over (the counter-balances to the myth-making/propaganda). So these are not meant to be read in isolation, but as complimentary aspects on people (or issues about them) that are on the road that's less travelled.

Main article: People