Megan McArdle (born January 29, 1973) is an opinion columnist and blogger based in Washington, D.C. She writes mostly about economics, finance and government policy from a libertarian perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_McArdle

Ross Gregory Douthat (/ˈdaʊθət/[1]) (born 1979) is an American conservative political analyst, blogger and author and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor of The Atlantic. He has written on a variety of conservative topics, including the state of Christianity in America and "sustainable decadence" in contemporary society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Douthat

Christian Religion - Monotheism

aka Two-Way Links

Maggie Appleton: A Short History of Bi-Directional Links. (more)

A notation for linking to pages on other wiki servers. Here's an example: (more)

Tim Berners-Lee: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI (ok that's URI) (more)

Remove Disqus BlogComments From my Wikilog - the huge amount of crap-webad-space wasn't worth the low amount of engagement. (more)

cumulative net total of historical government Budget Deficit-s (and surpluses) (more)

US National Debt

Ewan McIntosh thinks Design Thinking is better than PBL as a learning process. (more)

Understanding by Design, or UbD, is a tool utilized for educational planning focused on "teaching for understanding" advocated by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins in their Understanding by Design (1998), published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.[1][2] The emphasis of Ub D is on "backward design" (Working Backwards), the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design Curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_by_Design (more)

Ewan McIntosh is the founder of NoTosh, the no-nonsense company that makes accessible the creative process required to innovate: to find meaningful problems and solve them. Ewan wrote How To Come Up With Great Ideas and Actually Make Them Happen, a manual that does what is says for education leaders, innovators and people who want to be both. https://notosh.com/

DevOps consultant/writer, known esp for Resilience Engineering and Incident Analysis work (Retrospective). (more)

SoundCloud is a European online audio distribution platform and music sharing website based in Berlin, Germany that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Started in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud has grown to be one of the largest music streaming services in the market reaching over 175 million monthly users worldwide.[5] SoundCloud offers both free and paid membership on the platform, available for desktop or mobile device... In Spring 2017, SoundCloud initially faced being sold after not raising the $100 million dollars needed to support the platform.[23] The initial evaluation of Soundcloud at $700 million did not hold as strong to investors after their financial shortages.[23] $169.5 million was raised in the fourth quarter of the year by Temasek and Raine Group to keep the platform afloat.[24] Along with the investment there was a shift in the management, mainly involving Alexander Ljung leaving the company and Mike Weissman becoming the COO.[24] In July 2017, SoundCloud announced that it would close its San Francisco and London offices and lay off 173 out of 420 employees in an effort to become profitable, with the remaining staff operating out of offices in Berlin and New York.[25][26][27] In August 2017, SoundCloud announced that CEO Alex Ljung will step down from his role, with former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor replacing him.[28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundCloud

Passenger/vacation ships. (more)

Geoffrey Miller: After the second wave of Covid-19 hits the cruise industry next winter, there will be great opportunities to pick up used cruise ships for pennies on the dollar. Nautical Libertarians: start saving up now for the golden age of cruise-ship seasteading. (more)

The Lord of the Rings is an epic[1] high-fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling novels ever written, with over 150 million copies sold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

Scott Alexander: Why do people want to live in the sad little world where STEM is the only thing worth doing, anyway? (more)

A neologism from the Principia Discordia popularized in the Illuminatus! trilogy... the interjection "fnord" is given hypnotic power over the unenlightened, and children in grade school are taught to be unable to see the word consciously. For the rest of their lives, every appearance of the word subconsciously generates a feeling of unease and confusion, preventing rational consideration of the text in which it appears.