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- My Cyborg Name
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Sidebar Spotlight
Five constantly changing, carefully randomized, interesting stuff
Health Care Renewal blog
Climate Progress Blog
NCSE YouTube Channel
My Google Reader items
Lucas' Google Reader items
My Photos
Decrepitude
A few selected articles from the last few years. Feel free to nominate others because really, I can't remember what all I've written.
One Impossible Thing
9/11: five years on
Story from a picture
The Authority Gradient
If our lives are to have any meaning
What was lost
Cold and broken alleluia
Mary Mallon: being evil vs. being an evil
Artifacts of the long-gone man
Apple software review:
Because nature isn't waiting for us to wise up
About
Decrepit Old Fool is the online pseudonym I use so people won't know my real name is George Hussein Wiman. Scroll down for more boring information about me including my email address.
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Aetiology
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Baloney Detection Kit
Berkeley Understanding Evolution
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Damn Interesting (on hiatus)
Discovering Climate Change
Richard Dawkins portal
Earth Observatory
Evolutionary Timeline
Scott Hatfield's Monkey Trials
NCSE YouTube Channel
Wayne Hale's NASA blog
Greg Laden's Blog
International Polar year 07/08
JPL Blog
Logical Fallacies
Mike, The Mad Biologist
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
National Center for Science Education
North State Science
Paulos, John Allen, Who's Counting
Open Mind
Panda's Thumb, The
Pump Handle, The
Randi, James
Real Climate
The Way Things Break
Respectful Insolence
Carl Sagan portal
Scientific Activist
9/11 myths
Talk Origins dot org
Thoughts in a Haystack
Understanding Evolution at Berkeley
Unscrewing the Inscrutable
The Volcanism Blog
What's New
Carl Zimmer Blog
Science News and Sources
In no order yet
A few things ill-considered
Basic Concepts In Science
Science Daily
MIT Technology Review
New Scientist
...and Climate Guide for the Perplexed
Scientific American
Science News
World-Science
Wikipedia
How Stuff Works
What's New
Solutions
Websites that propose fixes to the big problems
The Algebra Project
Just Foreign Policy
Campaign For America's Future
American Friends Service Committee
Leroy pedals: Cycling For Scholarships
Cape Town Open-Education Declaration
Edutopia, the George Lucas Educational Foundation
World Changing
Bill & Melinda Gates
Climate Crisis
Department Of Peace
Make Poverty History
MIT Open Courseware
One laptop per child
American Energy Independence
Religion and Humanism
American Humanist Association
American Atheists
Daylight Atheism
Ethical Atheist
Evil Bible
Ex Christian .net
The Freethinker
FFRF
Friendly Atheist
Minister Turned Atheist
Rational Wiki
Religious Freedom Page
The Revealer
Why won't God heal amputees?
Council For Secular Humanism
Skeptics' Annotated Bible
Humanism
Atheist Revolution
PHACT.org
Comics!
Bizarro comic blog
Candorville
Cetic
Chaospet
Real Life Comics
Slow Wave
DoubtSourcing
Atheist Eve
Joy Of Tech
xkcd
SubNormality
Russell's Teapot
Utopia Theory
Jesus & Mo
PartiallyClips
Odd Fish (pun warning)
The Scientific Cartoonist
Unshelved
Yahoo Comics
Favorite Podcasts
Skeptic's Guide To The UniverseSkepticality
Science Friday
Earth And Sky
Non-Prophets Radio
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I check BBC news most
BBC News Online
BBS News
Economist, The
Yahoo News
Google News
Arab News
Jazeera, Al
Excite news
Fact Checker dot org
US National Debt Clock
Boston Globe's The Big Picture
Issues
End Software Patents
FIRE
First Amendment Center
Chilling Effects
American Civil Liberties Union
Media matters
Security
Security-specific links
Security Mentor
Bruce Schneier on security
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Dissident Voice
Doug's Dynamic Drivel
En Tequila Es Verdad
Eunoia
Fallacio.us
Fox, Hank
In These Times
Joe's Big Blog
I see Invisible People
Justice Day
KeesKennis
Life Cycle Analysis
Margaret And Helen
Monday Evening
MorningGlory2
Mostly Cajun
MrsDoF
N through Z
Negative Smart
Nobody Asked
One Happy Dog Speaks
Questionable Authority
Slacktivist
Smug Baldy Speaks
Testing the water
Terminal Ward, notes from
TwoBlueDay
Webs' Random Ideas
Wee Dram
Tech links
Lefty.crupps' GNUski Bacon
HowTo Geek
More boring information about me
'Decrepit Old Fool' was intended to be an ironic/humorous pseudonym; I am only one of those things but the other two are creeping up on me. It refers to being over forty and working in a technology field, or to having grown children who are much smarter and hipper than I am.
I started blogging to improve my writing skills, and discovered I simply enjoyed it so that is why I do it now. I am a computer support specialist at a great MidWestern university, am married (sorry girls), and have three children of whom the youngest is a junior in college. After a (brief) term as a Christian minister, I have had a series of technical service jobs including darkroom printing, advertising layout, production xerography, photography, camera repair, and computer repair. I have a bachelor's degree from a good liberal-arts college in Tennessee and my home is cluttered with a tangle of books and periodicals.
I have a hard time with political groups; the 'liberals' are right about some things, 'conservatives' are right about others, and 'libertarians' about still other issues (of course, that's in the world view where I am right about everything).
I don't believe in the supernatural, including assorted spirits, gods, demons, afterlife, or miracles - but I once did so I am sympathetic to those who do. I am not sympathetic to those who want to use the power of government to further their supernatural beliefs, however.
My Unitarian Jihad name is "Brother Pepper Spray of Quiet Reflection" ... Get yours
And about Lucas...
'Lucas' is a co-author on this blog, and when he sends me some text for this column, I'll paste it in here.
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