Forgot your password?

Close
typodupeerror

Comment: Melting ice does not change sea levels (Score 1) 335

Put an icecube in a glass of water. As it melts the water level will not change because the ice cube displaces the same volume of water as the amount that melts. In In the same way, sea levels will not rise even if all the ice on the sea melts. Check this video for an example. Nothing to see here, move along and thank you science!

Media

+ - Scandalous Wiki Timelines->

Submitted by
sparkydevil
sparkydevil writes "WeCheck, the people's fact check, is generating a new kind of wiki page — the scandal timeline. So far the site is getting success with its Benghazi Attack Timeline and it has just launched the David Petraeus Scandal Timeline

As new data comes in the page can be instantly updated with new sources, giving an up-to-date overview of the situation. Take that traditional media!"
Link to Original Source
Google

+ - What to do when your page gets nuked by Google Search-> 5

Submitted by
sparkydevil
sparkydevil writes "Over the past few weeks I've been building up a wiki timeline of the attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, which is now the most comprehensive on the web. As the page grew and more blogs and sites linked to the page it moved up Google's search pages for the search term "Benghazi Attack Timeline" until it was the second listing on the first page. I had a few days of steady traffic (and pride) and then the page just completely disappeared from the search results. Completely gone without a trace. I didn't use any SEO tricks and the page has no ads, so I don't think it could be counted as spam. I don't think it's any kind of conspiracy. Has this happened to anyone else and how did you fix it?"
Link to Original Source

+ - Help crowdsource the authoritative Benghazi Attack Timeline->

Submitted by
sparkydevil
sparkydevil writes "WeCheck, a collaborative wiki-based fact check that I set up a month ago, is attempting to crowdsource the authoritative timeline of the Benghazi attacks with some success — the page is already much larger than any other comparable timeline. I hope this could be a model of how to deal with a large amount of complex, time-sensitive information."
Link to Original Source
News

+ - WeCheck.org - world's first wiki fact check->

Submitted by sparkydevil
sparkydevil writes "How can you trust the media when they write the articles AND fact check them? WeCheck, the first wiki fact check system, uses Wikipedia-like collaborative editing to help contributors with varied political views work together to fact check speeches and articles in an independent, non-partisan system. It works by allowing users to tags and link text to create Fact Check pages. There are also over 40 tags including [[STRAW MAN]], [[CIRCULAR]], [[AD HOMINEM]], [[CORRELATION]], [[MORAL EQUIVALENCE]], [[NAZI]], [[RACE CARD]] etc. which editors use to alert reader to the speechwriter's techniques The site is currently looking for volunteer fact checkers."
Link to Original Source
Facebook

+ - Facebook systematically restricting access to fans unless you pay up->

Submitted by sparkydevil
sparkydevil writes "Today I wanted to post an update to ALL of my 3800 Facebook fans telling them that I had just updated my karaoke business website when I saw the Promote button: For $5 I can increase the "reach" of my posts to 1100 fans, for $10 FB would increase the reach to 2200 fans, for $15 it would increase the reach to 3300 and for $20 I would have the benefit of being able to reach all of my fans. This essentialy confirms what many fan page owners have suspected — that FB has been systematically restricting reach over the past year so that they could "fix" the problem by introducing the promote feature.

This is a slap in the face to people like me who have spent many thousands of dollars getting those fans to sign up to their page — Facebook is effectively restricting access to my own fans unless I pay up. Basically Facebook is saying those fans don't belong to me, but belong to them."
Link to Original Source
The Almighty Buck

+ - SPAM: My Kickstarter Project Sucks, Send me Money!

Submitted by sparkydevil
sparkydevil writes "Some say that kickstarter is the gateway to a beautiful world full of puppy dogs and kids' smiles, but despite much gnashing of teeth, beating of breasts, rolling in dirt, and rending of garments, after four whole days slog I’ve managed to raise a meagre $1 for my project. My project looks suspiciously like a dead parrot — it has ceased to be. This is the story of how I made it so far, so soon and got so little!"
Link to Original Source

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

Close