User:Mediation4u/todo/resources

booklist
Put on goodreads

The Golden Notebook

Software tools
It appears using SyncToy on a kicked off script is better. And make sure an ALERTER spots if sync has not occurred; or had an error.
 * Briefcase (Microsoft_Windows) - deprecarted in Win8.  Just drag files in there and sync when right-click "sync all"
 * Representational state transfer - RESTful

AfC&DyK&DrN&Wiki shortcuts
AFC status:

Super-rapid reviewing: explaining the D| | (in AfC template) -  links are below to the applicable Policy refs for each.
 * 1) shortcuts with policy notes shortcuts
 * 2) Full list of shortcuts with text which the Editor sees.
 * 3) Great WikiTalk Emoticons Cheatsheet

Welcome to AfC Participants reviewers....
== Welcoming you to the participants list on AfC! == subst:AfC welcome AFC status I find the box above useful for AfC quick links. Hope this helps,   ~ editing is fun

SIG - Showing that this: Mediation4u 

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UserPage Navbar template idea
User:Jsfouche - Navbar has good icons for user home-page (but MANY wikis to put the same image on; so get it final)

\{\{User:Jsfouche/Navbar\}\}

interesting - see Navbar source >> here << pasted, below:

Useful toolserver instructions
Fill in file details in the form and click the button to re-upload a file into Commons (e.g., images from Wikipedia) Move Files To Commons

Useful common.js AFC tool instructions
Add to your Special:MyPage/vector.js or Special:MyPage/common.js page:

or beta version:

Happy editing and reviewing.. Technical 13 (talk) 00:23, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

NB: Vector is the default theme. Hence vector.js for most people.

Re-read

 * Comma splice Find writing exercises list.
 * List of cognitive biases
 * Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision << follow up Stuckist movement manifesto

Read
Fun reading list - what wikipedia is for.
 * The Illuminatus! Trilogy - self-parody... topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.
 * List of messiah claimants
 * Space opera in Scientology scripture - Yup, this one is "real". But not the weirdest they've come up with.
 * Open Source Religion
 * Unfulfilled religious predictions << DELETED; was more insightful on self-delusion psychology and subsequent abreaction when reality hits and scales fall from eyes. Often the easiest way for emotional stability to return is for a new delusion and hope to replace the prior one.  e.g., setting a new date for the second coming.  seventh day adventists make a tiny appearance now >> Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions
 * Prince Philip Movement
 * Rebecca Black - deep insights into the choices in life that you need to make.
 * User:Scartol/boldibe - best rap poem on wikipedia
 * Wikipedia is dying - stats, essays: User:Jorge_Stolfi/DoW
 * Mad pride - which day 2012?
 * J B Priestley - Delight
 * WikiWorld cartoons article summaries
 * Reincarnation Application - must be filed in quadruplicate - Over 1,000 living Buddhas have been reincarnated through this legal channel.
 * Phantom social workers - like Beetlejuice; you will never be able to escape them...
 * St. James-Bond Church, - made-up name candidate #42. Where "communion" takes on a whole different meaning.
 * St. Priapus Church - their favourite site - cookingwithcum.com
 * Casu marzu - Maggoty cheese
 * Surströmming - the most putrid food in the world
 * Muktuk - raw whale's blowhole, yum.
 * Hákarl - the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing.
 * Svið - sheep's head cut in half
 * Virgin boy egg - does what it says on the tin
 * Ironic process theory e.g., The Game - you think of what you are trying to suppress.
 * Streisand effect - legal action to stop publicity always results in more publicity.
 * UNESCO World Heritage Site - bucket list for travel / Koyaanisqatsi / Baraka / Samsara

Corporate culture

 * Corporate culture


 * Cargo cult - leading the way in human thought ;-)
 * Cargo cult programming - "McConnell describes software development organizations that attempt to emulate more successful development houses, either by slavishly following a software development process, or by taking a commitment-oriented development approach."  related to Cargo cult science.


 * How could this perpetuate? - People in organisations deciding it's all a good idea by the Group think mechanism and peer pressure to conform with Organisational fit.


 * Communism likened to the largest Cargo Cult ever known - e.g., aping steel production, just because the West were measuring leading indicators of economic rise and fall by closely watching steel production as that measure.


 * Danger of management-by-statistics when Gartner's approach of true-ing up different organisations by comparative measures, e.g., Balanced scorecard - interpretation of these measures needs to be taken in the light of humans' prediliction to fall into the cargo cult trap. For more such "damned lies and statistics", see the annual survey of management tools undertaken by Bain & Company


 * Appearance isn't what it seems - the Wall Street insistence on pressurising corporates to show in their quarterly accounts consistent stable growth led Enron to do just that, "show" a creative-accounting fraudulent fictitious set of accounts. Cult-like behaviour with employee rallies led employee's into wishful thinking that it was all true.  The ensuing collapse has been portrayed in popular culture - The_Crooked_E:_The_Unshredded_Truth_About_Enron,  etc.


 * Some organisations keep a register of intra-company relationships; one reason for a Love contract procedure is that the company has to pay when managers get sued for sexual harrassment if they end an affair. Strange times.

Yin and Yang of corporate life
Learned helplessness vs. Learned industriousness


 * Death by a thousand cuts
 * Tyranny of small decisions, Creeping normalcy, Salami slicing explains Hitler's rise to power.
 * Streisand Effect
 * HyperNormalisation (film)

TODO - want to leave the category panes below OPEN "show=true" by default. To do with Collapsing terminology in wiki-land. goog tried: collapse category -table wikipedia default to open expanded show= clicked {{

{{Aspects of organizations}} {{unintended consequences}}

Wikipedia's raison d'etre

 * April fool's project - year by year
 * Extraterrestrial real estate - got some great turf up around Gathol available, if anyone's interested
 * Chicken powered nuclear bomb
 * Die laughing - gelastic syncope  -  hahaha. thump.
 * Civet coffee and
 * Durian - Same answer to each. DO NOT WANT. But
 * Diet Coke and Mentos eruption - YES.
 * Fuck for Forest - you saw the birds and the bees, now join them!
 * Anarchism and issues related to love and sex (Discussion on Fuck For Forest at A-Kongress)
 * Global Orgasm - syncing your cycles
 * Fuck for the heir Puppy Bear!
 * Rickrolling - even the White House gets into "something more fun."
 * Ben Hana - blanket man
 * Harold Davidson - priests for prostitutes
 * Flying Spaghetti Monster (Pastafarianism)
 * Holy Prepuce - fskin
 * Invisible Pink Unicorn - the pink elephants were bad enough, but this? Similar to pastaf.
 * Jesus H. Christ - adventures in etymology
 * Winterval - Christmas, No; Seasonal party, No;  political correctness du jour: "bring your child to work day".
 * Wan King Path - Jo King and Lee King get led up the Wan King Path.
 * Pornocracy - Italy already has it - Ilona Staller. During the Rule of the harlots Theodora and daughters, Theodora and Marozia held a great influence over the papal selection and religious affairs in Rome through conspiracies, affairs and marriages.  3 generations, to 964.
 * Cardrona Bra Fence - What a title, huh?
 * Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, or, as Dave Barry called it, "Total Moron Cliff"
 * Vampire number - The bane of accountants everywhere, and, if that isn't bad enough
 * Conan the Librarian - You dare return a book late?
 * Category:Scientology beliefs and practices
 * Chanology - scientology in the spotlight.

The Mitsubishi Pajero (Japanese )  is a sport utility vehicle manufactured by Mitsubishi. It was named after Leopardus pajeros, the Pampas cat, which is native to the Patagonia plateau region of southern Argentina. But pajero in Spanish is also a common term of abuse, usually translated as "wanker" or "tosser", thus perhaps why alternative names have been used for many markets. It is known as the Mitsubishi Montero (meaning "mountain hunter" ) in the Americas (except Brazil and Jamaica), Spain, and India, while in the United Kingdom it is known as the Mitsubishi Shogun.

Tom Cruise is manic in another video
On January 21, 2008, Anonymous announced its goals and intentions via a video posted to YouTube entitled "Message to Scientology", and a press release declaring "War on Scientology", against both the Church of Scientology and the Religious Technology Center. In the press release, the group stated that the attacks against the Church of Scientology would continue in order to protect freedom of speech and to end what they characterized as the financial exploitation of church members.

The Tom Cruise video is referred to specifically at the start of the Anonymous YouTube video posting, and is characterized as a "propaganda video". The video utilizes a synthesized voice and shows floating cloud images using a time lapse method as the speaker addresses the leaders of Scientology directly: "We shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form..." The video goes on to state: "We recognize you as serious opponents, and do not expect our campaign to be completed in a short time frame. However, you will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your choice of methods, your hypocrisy, and the general artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell. You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere... We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." By January 25, 2008, only four days after its release, the video had been viewed 800,000 times, and by February 8, 2008, had been viewed over 2 million times.

Role models
Eric S. Raymond open source co-founder. Cerebral palsy since birth.

Byron e.g.,  She Walks in Beauty

Kurt Vonnegut described himself variously as a skeptic, freethinker, humanist, Unitarian Universalist, agnostic, and atheist. He disbelieved in the supernatural, considered religious doctrine to be "so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash," and believed people were motivated by loneliness to join religions.

Movie night = philosophy night
Under the radar

Encourage Socratic thinking, free choice. Following through with choices. Avoiding negatives of the "intellectual", avoiding The Stepford Wives or Midwich Cuckoo conditioning. re: drop-out rate of the over-tutored in grammar, uni and work.

Author. Book. Film

John Wyndham. The Midwich Cuckoos. Village of the Damned (1995 film)

Ira Levin. novel: The Stepford Wives. The Stepford Wives (2004 film)

Monty Python. . corp raiders: The Crimson Permanent Assurance at start of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life see also The Meaning of Life

My favourite place in the world
On the heath, just to the east of Kenwood house, is a small pagoda sheltering an informational brass plate. The plate bears an inscription of Wordsworth's poem "Earth hath not anything to show more fair", written about the view of London you can see from that point.

TODO - how to include this image on Talk page.





Beautiful




To add to See also lists

 * Basic interpersonal communicative skills
 * Critical thinking
 * DISCO - European Dictionary of Skills and Competences
 * Emotional literacy
 * Empathy
 * Life skills
 * Life skills-based education
 * People skills
 * Social intelligence
 * Social skills
 * Theory of multiple intelligences
 * Soft skills
 * Intimate relationship skills (wikiquote)
 * Building Strong Families Program
 * Becoming Parents Program
 * Relationship education
 * Relate

[Category:Relationship_education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Relationship_education]

Pics
left|250px|thumb|The mission patch for Opportunity, featuring [[Duck Dodgers.]]

WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Mailing List

I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world.. without you. A world without rules or controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.

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Userboxes
Below: non-project related userboxes. John's proliferous project userboxes: here.



cheatsheet
Help:Editing |  / Category:Wikipedia editing /  |  Help:Advanced_editing

Litanies - sociopaths
A useful litany whenever dealing with recruitment agents or estate agents…

If most of the population is generally trusting and gullible, the behaviour of being a "cheater" (or, in the extreme case, a sociopath) may be advantageous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology#Personality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy

Sociopaths differ in sense of right and wrong from the average person.

Sociopathy may represent an evolutionarily stable strategy, by which a small number of people who cheat on social contracts benefit in a society consisting mostly of non-sociopaths.

Caveat emptor! (buyer beware)

Lessons not to forget
Dysfunctional families... the Abilene paradox theory is used to illustrate that groups not only have problems managing disagreements, but that agreements may also be a problem in a poorly functioning group.

Further reading...

- observed in abusers and manipulators to downplay positive attributes (talents and skills etc.) of their victims. Ref:are_you_in_a_borderline_abusive_relationship_here_are_7_subtle_signs
 * Belittle

The main difference between pranks and bullying is establishment of power inequity between the bully and the victim that lasts beyond the duration of the act.

Done... Compersion - if you're happy, I'm happy.

Emasculation - not so happy