
== My Origin == There is much that is flawed, sloppy and downright bizarre in the way I was designed. My DNA is "[http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/21/genome/index2.html convoluted, ill-documented, haphazardly maintained spaghetti code]". About 98% of my DNA is ‘junk’ DNA, not coding for any protein. For example, the Alu sequences are repeated some million or so times, and this one family alone [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#junkdna accounts for about 5% of my DNA]. As an embryo, I went through a phase where I had gill bars and gill pouches, though not functional gills. Between four to seven weeks of development, my vertebra ended in [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#humanembryotails a tail]. (My extensor coccygis would flex these bones, [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#coccyx if only they weren't fused].) Because of my mother's inefficient placenta, oxygenated blood coming into me mixed with deoxygenated blood that had already circulated. Haemoglobin, the molecule which transports oxygen around my body in red blood cells, has more affinity for carbon monoxide than for oxygen. I have nonfunctional oddities like nipples, and goose-pimples for instance. My laryngeal nerve does not go directly from my cranium to my larynx. Instead, it extends down my neck to my chest, loops around a lung ligament and then runs back up the neck to my larynx. Speaking of larynxes, there's the opening of my larynx (leading to the trachea) being from the pharynx, so that [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#choking swallowing impedes breathing (and vice versa)]. Not only that, but with the wind-pipe coming from off the food-pipe, there is a constant risk of choking. I also have a lung ventilation system that is tidal: I breathe in and out through the same tubing. Deoxygenated air is therefore mixed with the fresh, and some of it is re-breathed. My plantaris muscle is of suboptimal design: it is atrophied and ends in the Achilles tendon without reaching the toes at all. My spinal column can barely withstand the [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#spine compression strains of vertical bipedalism]. My jaw is [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#wisdomteeth too small for the number of teeth it holds]. The photo-sensitive cells in my eyes, (which lack a tapetum) lie behind the optic nerve endings, which combine into the optic nerve forming a blind spot. I have feeble [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#auricularismuscles ear-moving muscles]. I cannot [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#limbregeneration reactivate the genetic instructions for limb formation]. I have a tiny extension of my cecum, the appendix, who's only function appears to be providing employment for doctors who treat appendicitis. Not to mention the fact that my testicles have to [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#externaltesticles pass out through the abdominal wall] to the scrotum where they are vulnerable. I produce around 350 million sperm at each ejaculation - way more than I need. My gene for synthesising vitamin C [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#scurvy is broken]. All this seems grossly inefficient. My construction is of an impromptu, make-do nature: the signature of intent is missing. == Why I Contribute == As of 2003, I Special:Contributions/Dbabbitt within Wikipedia with a somewhat low degree of involvement. Though I clock in at between 300 - 350 words per minute ''reading'' the articles, my writing rate is very low. I am motivated by the sense of satisfaction I get by contributing to the production of a collective good. I do not feel a sense of belonging to East Coast Liberal Acadamia, though the discovery of minds of surpassing excellence in the context of supporting the community is pleasurable. I am mildly concerned with the representation of the Reformed and Libertarian understanding of things here, but mostly like to just add a contrarion twist to whatever I find of interest. I have an intense curiosity about how things work and I find it exhilarating to watch some POV "gem" I just added get edited into NPOV "smoky quartz". == My Observations about Wikipedia == [http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/ FUD-based] encyclopedia articles are written by committee members trying to impress their fellows. Wikipedia articles, in contrast, end up in nice, "bite-size" paragraphs that are easily understandable. But are Wikipedia articles really supposed to look like encyclopedia articles? They feel more like summaries of discussions, somewhat like the FAQs which were distilled from UseNet discussions. According to the Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles, if law and guidance make you fear and clinical depression, and not desirous of participating in the Wiki, then ignore them and go about your anarchy. But I say if it makes you depressed, you are really looking for a contrarian set of rules, so here goes. The "game" of Wikipedia is to get your Image talk:Political Ideologies.png to survive page edits long enough to become established as part of the conventional wisdom. (This is a lot easier to do with text than it is with images. It takes ''real'' work and lots of political maneuvering to get creative images to stick.) Here are some tips: #Camouflage the visible - replace your arcane terminology with terminology already used on the page. #Absorb the radar - carve out a subheading that includes others' content as well as your own so that yours will be overlooked. #Cut and run - sometimes it's important to lose the content battle in order to win the war. If you move a whole section (that contains your stuff) off the main page and onto an auxillary page just before a major rewrite, for example, you will probably be able to expand your explanations and will for a time have saved your section from permanent obliteration. #It is important to leave a comment in the Edit summary whenever you change the overall presentation (i.e., pedagogy, terminology, flow, spelling, and grammar), not just the content. #It's also important to add incrementally off the "Show preview" button instead of the "Save page" button. Only click the "Save page" button when it becomes pointless to further click the "Show preview" button. == Unfinished Work == I don't think that the Timeline of Islamic terrorism against the United States is necessary, and I'm tired of working on it, so I offered it as a sacrifice to those who are offended by the term "Islamic Terrorism". I wish there was a page for Orders of magnitude (specific energy density) I also enjoy playing in my User:Dbabbitt/Sandbox. == Legal Stuff == I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
Hello Dave, Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedia:Wikipedians. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them; *Wikipedia:How to edit a page *Wikipedia:Naming conventions *Wikipedia:Manual of Style If you have any questions, see the Wikipedia:Help or add another question to the Wikipedia:village pump. User:Angela 01:32, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---- Hi :) I'm afraid you can't copy and paste content from the web into the Wikipedia, that's a Wikipedia:Copyrights... As a result I've listed Redwall on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/copyvio. If you like, you should write the article in your own words so it doesn't use copied content. Thanks! :) User:Dysprosia ---- Please note that WP:WWIN a genealogical dictionary. I feel your entry on Babbitt is therefore inappropriate. Please discuss the issue on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion if you feel otherwise. User:Angela 02:27, Sep 12, 2003 (UTC) ---- Please don't overload the sandbox - the addition made the sandbox blow out to 98k, which is really large for when people want to try out Wiki editing they'll have to wait for all the stuff to load. If you like, you can make a ''personal'' sandbox. For your convenience, here is a link that'll do it for you: User:Dbabbitt/Sandbox Thanks User:Dysprosia 03:05, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- Concerning the "49 virtues" which you added to the Virtue article. May I ask - did you just happen to think of an arbitrary 49 yourself or can you cite some published reference? Are the 49 virtues defined by a particular movement or school of christian theology or ethics? If so, then can I suggest that it might actually be a good idea to create an article dedicated to that particular school or movement and put all the related contributions there. Without wanting to be too critical, it would seem a better approach than the one you have taken. For example, it is not clear to me that an article describing flexibility requires any discussion of it as a 'virtue', christian or otherwise - a simple dictionary definition of the word would suffice. Please note this is just my personal point of view. I have no authority here. However, you should be aware that some of your contributions have been listed on Wikipedia:Cleanup by more than one user. User:Petermanchester 17:07, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC) See also discussion on Talk:Virtue User:Petermanchester 23:29, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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== My Origin == There is much that is flawed, sloppy and downright bizarre in the way I was designed. My DNA is "[http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/21/genome/index2.html convoluted, ill-documented, haphazardly maintained spaghetti code]". About 98% of my DNA is ‘junk’ DNA, not coding for any protein. For example, the Alu sequences are repeated some million or so times, and this one family alone [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#junkdna accounts for about 5% of my DNA]. As an embryo, I went through a phase where I had gill bars and gill pouches, though not functional gills. Between four to seven weeks of development, my vertebra ended in [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#humanembryotails a tail]. (My extensor coccygis would flex these bones, [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#coccyx if only they weren't fused].) Because of my mother's inefficient placenta, oxygenated blood coming into me mixed with deoxygenated blood that had already circulated. Haemoglobin, the molecule which transports oxygen around my body in red blood cells, has more affinity for carbon monoxide than for oxygen. I have nonfunctional oddities like nipples, and goose-pimples for instance. My laryngeal nerve does not go directly from my cranium to my larynx. Instead, it extends down my neck to my chest, loops around a lung ligament and then runs back up the neck to my larynx. Speaking of larynxes, there's the opening of my larynx (leading to the trachea) being from the pharynx, so that [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#choking swallowing impedes breathing (and vice versa)]. Not only that, but with the wind-pipe coming from off the food-pipe, there is a constant risk of choking. I also have a lung ventilation system that is tidal: I breathe in and out through the same tubing. Deoxygenated air is therefore mixed with the fresh, and some of it is re-breathed. My plantaris muscle is of suboptimal design: it is atrophied and ends in the Achilles tendon without reaching the toes at all. My spinal column can barely withstand the [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#spine compression strains of vertical bipedalism]. My jaw is [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#wisdomteeth too small for the number of teeth it holds]. The photo-sensitive cells in my eyes, (which lack a tapetum) lie behind the optic nerve endings, which combine into the optic nerve forming a blind spot. I have feeble [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#auricularismuscles ear-moving muscles]. I cannot [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#limbregeneration reactivate the genetic instructions for limb formation]. I have a tiny extension of my cecum, the appendix, who's only function appears to be providing employment for doctors who treat appendicitis. Not to mention the fact that my testicles have to [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#externaltesticles pass out through the abdominal wall] to the scrotum where they are vulnerable. I produce around 350 million sperm at each ejaculation - way more than I need. My gene for synthesising vitamin C [http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm#scurvy is broken]. All this seems grossly inefficient. My construction is of an impromptu, make-do nature: the signature of intent is missing. == Why I Contribute == As of 2003, I Special:Contributions/Dbabbitt within Wikipedia with a somewhat low degree of involvement. Though I clock in at between 300 - 350 words per minute ''reading'' the articles, my writing rate is very low. I am motivated by the sense of satisfaction I get by contributing to the production of a collective good. I do not feel a sense of belonging to East Coast Liberal Acadamia, though the discovery of minds of surpassing excellence in the context of supporting the community is pleasurable. I am mildly concerned with the representation of the Reformed and Libertarian understanding of things here, but mostly like to just add a contrarion twist to whatever I find of interest. I have an intense curiosity about how things work and I find it exhilarating to watch some POV "gem" I just added get edited into NPOV "smoky quartz". == My Observations about Wikipedia == [http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia/ FUD-based] encyclopedia articles are written by committee members trying to impress their fellows. Wikipedia articles, in contrast, end up in nice, "bite-size" paragraphs that are easily understandable. But are Wikipedia articles really supposed to look like encyclopedia articles? They feel more like summaries of discussions, somewhat like the FAQs which were distilled from UseNet discussions. According to the Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles, if law and guidance make you fear and clinical depression, and not desirous of participating in the Wiki, then ignore them and go about your anarchy. But I say if it makes you depressed, you are really looking for a contrarian set of rules, so here goes. The "game" of Wikipedia is to get your Image talk:Political Ideologies.png to survive page edits long enough to become established as part of the conventional wisdom. (This is a lot easier to do with text than it is with images. It takes ''real'' work and lots of political maneuvering to get creative images to stick.) Here are some tips: #Camouflage the visible - replace your arcane terminology with terminology already used on the page. #Absorb the radar - carve out a subheading that includes others' content as well as your own so that yours will be overlooked. #Cut and run - sometimes it's important to lose the content battle in order to win the war. If you move a whole section (that contains your stuff) off the main page and onto an auxillary page just before a major rewrite, for example, you will probably be able to expand your explanations and will for a time have saved your section from permanent obliteration. #It is important to leave a comment in the Edit summary whenever you change the overall presentation (i.e., pedagogy, terminology, flow, spelling, and grammar), not just the content. #It's also important to add incrementally off the "Show preview" button instead of the "Save page" button. Only click the "Save page" button when it becomes pointless to further click the "Show preview" button. == Unfinished Work == I don't think that the Timeline of Islamic terrorism against the United States is necessary, and I'm tired of working on it, so I offered it as a sacrifice to those who are offended by the term "Islamic Terrorism". I wish there was a page for Orders of magnitude (specific energy density) I also enjoy playing in my User:Dbabbitt/Sandbox. == Legal Stuff == I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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Hello Dave, Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedia:Wikipedians. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them; *Wikipedia:How to edit a page *Wikipedia:Naming conventions *Wikipedia:Manual of Style If you have any questions, see the Wikipedia:Help or add another question to the Wikipedia:village pump. User:Angela 01:32, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC) ---- Hi :) I'm afraid you can't copy and paste content from the web into the Wikipedia, that's a Wikipedia:Copyrights... As a result I've listed Redwall on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/copyvio. If you like, you should write the article in your own words so it doesn't use copied content. Thanks! :) User:Dysprosia ---- Please note that WP:WWIN a genealogical dictionary. I feel your entry on Babbitt is therefore inappropriate. Please discuss the issue on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion if you feel otherwise. User:Angela 02:27, Sep 12, 2003 (UTC) ---- Please don't overload the sandbox - the addition made the sandbox blow out to 98k, which is really large for when people want to try out Wiki editing they'll have to wait for all the stuff to load. If you like, you can make a ''personal'' sandbox. For your convenience, here is a link that'll do it for you: User:Dbabbitt/Sandbox Thanks User:Dysprosia 03:05, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- Concerning the "49 virtues" which you added to the Virtue article. May I ask - did you just happen to think of an arbitrary 49 yourself or can you cite some published reference? Are the 49 virtues defined by a particular movement or school of christian theology or ethics? If so, then can I suggest that it might actually be a good idea to create an article dedicated to that particular school or movement and put all the related contributions there. Without wanting to be too critical, it would seem a better approach than the one you have taken. For example, it is not clear to me that an article describing flexibility requires any discussion of it as a 'virtue', christian or otherwise - a simple dictionary definition of the word would suffice. Please note this is just my personal point of view. I have no authority here. However, you should be aware that some of your contributions have been listed on Wikipedia:Cleanup by more than one user. User:Petermanchester 17:07, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC) See also discussion on Talk:Virtue User:Petermanchester 23:29, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "
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