haze's New Writeups

January 20, 2008 (person)

2008-01-20T13:42:29Z

In re Draft Everything2 Terms of Service.

Some things I think we all understand but maybe haven't thought about:

When you post something to Everything2, it gets published to the whole world.

That includes whatever "personal" or "private" information you choose to display on your homenode. The only exception to this is the disclosure of "real name" and email address associated with an account. In that case, and in that case alone, the site agrees *not* to disclose the information to anyone other than administrators.

Contributors don't get to dictate how their content appears to users, or what gets displayed with it.

Users can make use of ekw or Zen themes, so your content can appear in wide variety of colors and fonts and page shapes. It may appear on the same page with advertisements, or next to other people's content which you may disagree with.

Stuff on the internet gets indexed and linked, and Everything2 allows that.

If you've…

Editor Log: November 2007 (person)

2007-11-18T17:14:03Z

Virgil

The user account for Virgil belongs to the e2docs usergroup and will soon be used for posting and editing help documentation.

Currently, the documents which comprise Everything2 FAQ may or may not be in question-and-answer form, and the documents themselves may be various nodetypes, such as "documents" and "superdocuments" which only admins can access and edit. There are only a few admins, and the docs are not getting edited and updated enough. To expand the base of potential workers for this motley collection of help documents, we are transferring all the documentation to writeups by Virgil.

When we are finished, you will be able to determine whether a help document is official. If the document is a writeup by Virgil, it will be official. If not, it will be some old legacy document we haven't yet got around to deleting. Also, we can get rid of the namespacing ("E2 FAQ:").

Eventually, you will be able…

Editor Log: April 2007 (person)

2007-04-26T16:21:26Z

On the Status of the FAQ

As some of you know, this site is owned by the Everything Development Company. In terms of personalities involved, the owners are more or less co-extensive with the developers of Slashdot. I've never met these guys in person, but years of contact with E2 have allowed me to make some observations.

First, they are dedicated to the continued existence and vitality of Everything2 and the Everything2 community because they fixed whatever it was on the hardware side that needed fixing. I think I speak for everyone when I give a hearty "YAY!", and extend kudos, heartfelt thanks, offers of sexual favors, etc.

Second, the Boys in Michigan are big proponents of the "open source", or collaborative model for projects. If I may be permitted a reflective digression, it appears that authority over the direction of a collaborative project is weighted, as the term suggests, towards those who have contributed labor to a…

March 5, 2007 (place)

2007-03-05T19:25:23Z

Tips for Tourists in Albuquerque, New Mexico

If you and your typically lardassed Caucasian family make it to Albuquerque, New Mexico, be prepared to answer the New Mexico State Question: "Red or green?"

If you have to ask "which is hotter?" then maybe you should order a nice grilled cheese sandwich instead.

the resurrection of the body (idea)

2006-11-05T16:24:12Z

Somewhere a priest is preparing for a funeral. All the Christian clergy, priest, pastor, minister, whatever, as well as some rabbis, are called upon to address our topic, the resurrection of the body. It is a central article of faith, about which there is surprisingly little controversy in Christendom. Let us imagine, however, that it is a Catholic priest. That simplifies things. The pronoun is "he" without reservation, the doctrines and rules of the Roman Catholic Church are well-defined and easy to look up. Also, a Catholic priest need not confront the problem of the damned, the unrepentant, the apostate. The Catholic Church doesn't allow funeral masses for such persons.

Still, he can't get around the fact that even repentant sinners carry with them a lot of negative baggage to the grave. Our priest, given the Catholic tradition of encouraging detailed and specific Confession, knows this well. Let's say (and why not?) that the person to be buried was truly…

July 19, 2006 (idea)

2006-07-19T21:10:18Z

Why I'm (still) a liberal

In Why I'm not conservative; why I'm not liberal, the perspicacious artman2003 praises my reality-based community writeup, and even contrasts me with Rush Limbaugh. Little old me, on par with a notorious bloviator? Mercy.

Artman2003 criticizes, however, my contention that the "real" reason our leaders went to war in Iraq was for oil. He suggests this is the kind of stupid thing liberals say. As a liberal and Christian I'm opposed to any war, but given the imminent arrival of peak oil, if we are going to have a war over anything, oil seems like a good reason to me.

Perhaps artman2003 means to suggest our leaders had no rational basis whatsoever for the War on Iraq. To me that way lies madness. I have to believe the war was waged for oil or to justify or conceal other nefarious activities. It's simply insane to think that our leaders would torture, kill and destroy for no good reason. On most days I can't make my thoughts go…