Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what’s happening in Congress. Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what’s really going on in Congress. Now, everyone can be an insider. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission […]

Johnny can’t read or write. But he sure does feel good about himself: Twenge and her colleagues, in findings to be presented at a workshop Tuesday in San Diego on the generation gap, examined the responses of 16,475 college students nationwide who completed an evaluation called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory between 1982 and 2006. The […]

We are at war. Marwan Jabour was kidnapped by the CIA and spent 25 months in an US-run gulag.

“Australia may not be able to handle the truth — Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers. (via Digg)” Did anybody else catch that special (PBS? Discovery?) about the Bonobo monkeys (with whom we – […]

Stewart Mader and John Willinsky gave a talk on wikis and communities. Several bloggers took notes: Wikis in education: His classes have created an on-going repository of lesson plans for K-12 teachers using this wiki -a brilliantly conceived framework for the knowledge management that a well-organized wiki is so good at. Moreover, the community is […]

#7 of 12: Email Forward Link: If there was one category of links I would wish to move higher on this list, this would be it. These are the referral URLs that come through with very strange configurations, but take you back to a secure network or webmail service, meaning that a URL for a […]

I think the MyBlogLog communities feature is really awesome. Basically you can see who is reading your blog (provided they are a MyBlogLog user). Here’s who is reading AndyWibbels.com. But then TechCrunch and some other bloggers started musing that maybe the reason Yahoo! bought MyBlogLog was so it could capitalize on the trends that the […]

Rock out: Ms. Byrne had promised Ms. Hicks 10 percent of DVD revenues to appear in “The Secret,” both parties said. But they had a falling out, and Ms. Hicks could not even bring herself to watch Ms. Byrne this month on “Oprah,” the movement’s moment of triumph. In a backhanded compliment Ms. Hicks said, […]

Spiritual and pseudospiritual movements don’t come out of nowhere and they definitely don’t come from channeled entities. The Law of Attraction maps all the way back to the 19th Century New Thought movement here in the US. The movement then splinters in several smaller movements – each led by a major personality – leading all […]

There’s a key missing ingredient in all of the literature about The Law of Attraction. Everyone jaws on and on about how the universal law of the universe is: Like attracts like. Actually if you go back to your fifth grade science class (or your Paula Abdul hit list) you’ll remember that: Opposites attract. So […]