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:* trying to memorize the system of English units (though I don't think I'll take on the volume systems)

:* learning traditional games of abstract strategy from around the world (while I'm by no means a serious player, there have been periods when I've seen everything around me in terms of Go) -- see also the full list of pages in the "Abstract Strategy Games" category; the traditional board games subcategory contains (with the exception of Kubb, which is traditional but not a board game):

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colspan="2" | Alea evangelii • Alquerque • Bagha-Chall • Chowka bhara • Daldøs • Fanorona • Five Field Kono • Jungle • Kubb • Mak-yek • Mancala games • Pong Hau K'i • Pulijudam • Surakarta

width="83" | Chess-related | Janggi • Makruk • Shatranj • Shogi • Sittuyin • Xiangqi

Go-related | Go variants • Gomoku • Ko shogi

Morris games | Three Men's Morris • Six Men's Morris • Nine Men's Morris • Twelve Men's Morris

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:* Cloud types

:* The listing of Wikipedia's Featured Pictures (with links to the thumbnail listing, and the list of featured pictures with an aspect ratio suitable for wallpaper)

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::(more recent)

:* The sadly boring story of how AC/DC got their name

:* Dada

::(older)

:* Turkish delight

:* trivium

:* Amazon

:* corpusants

:* Elizabeth Ann Seton

:* Ong choy v. water hyacinth

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As of {{date}}, I have made over 1500 edits on Wikipedia.

:* Kilikiti

:* Contra dance (mostly 2006-7. I really got started with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Contra_dance&diff=47202355&oldid=43598003 this] addition, which increased the article's by half)

:* Simulation semantics

:* Fiddle (and Irish fiddle and List of fiddlers)

:* Ultimate frisbee teams and associated articles

:* Elizabeth Ann Seton

:* banjolin; mandolin-banjo

:* Black Tambourine

:* Amiina

:* Traditional board games (category)

:* List of mancala games

:* Trobriand cricket

:* Association of Polar Early Career Scientists

:* Many by-genre and by-nationality fiddler categories

:* Neurobiological factors implicated in schizophrenia (e.g., adrenergic, cholinergic, glutamatergic, and serotonergic receptors; the G proteins they're coupled with, and G-protein activated factors such as BDNF, adenylyl cyclase, PLC, PKA, and so on) — these are mostly copy edits in the course of my reading

To-Do list

: If you like you can look at my more complete To do list (really just so I don't forget)

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Away from the computer, some academic interests of mine are the biological basis of psychopathology (especially bipolar-spectrum and schizo-affective disorders) and psychopharmacology, and the relation sleep has with the former. Related areas I'm interested in are the perception of time; conceptual metaphor; emotion; addiction; and embodied cognition. I'm also interested in educational theory education, how we learn and how best to teach --specifically, how best to present (such as in a PowerPoint presentation) information visually,-- the use of graphic novels in education, and related issues of the mind. I've also done work in simulation semantics (for now, get a general inkling through cognitive science, simulation, and semantics).

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:* Authors I recommend: Brautigan, Helprin, Joyce, and Eco;

:* Artists I recommend: Schiele, Pollock, Gorky, Escher;

:* Music I enjoy: The Glove, Gillian Anderson, Talking Heads, Sigur Rós, múm, Do Make Say Think, G.U.R.U., Devon Sproule, Danny Schmidt, Charlie Parker, The Strokes, fiddle music of many sorts, The Cure, Joy Division, The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Velvet Underground, The Nields, Four Tet, Autechre, Railroad Earth, Turkish religious music (topic 3.3),...

:* I'm a contra dancer, and a fiddler with an interest in New England fiddling, Québécois fiddling, Cape Breton fiddling, and Irish fiddling (rougher old Donegal styles in particular -- more the old dance styles than, say, the nearly-as-old Teelin style).

: I'm currently reading Stuart Kauffman's Investigations, a greatly simplified version of the premise of which is that life is an emergent property of collectively autocatalytic, organized groups of autonomous, working individuals, that this can be used as a tool for approaching astrobiology, and that economics works in the same way, making these principles fundamental to a broad range of systems. (Note: I haven't touched Investigations since September 2006. Still, it's pretty cool.)

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• [http://www.memepool.com Memepool] is always a nice counter to the informative side of the web offered by Wikipedia (see Memepool)
• [http://www.aldaily.com Arts & Letters Daily] collects articles, book reviews, and essays from a great number of publications (see Arts & Letters Daily)
• [http://www.eyebeam.com Eyebeam] is a great comic strip (see Eyebeam)
• [http://www.demian5.com Demian 5] is home to "When I am King" (see When I Am King)
• The [http://www.ebolaylay.org Braineaters] was my college's Ultimate team (see also [http://www.ibleedorange.com I Bleed Orange], our response to UCSB's [http://www.ibleedblack.com I Bleed Black])
• Interiot's [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate Wannabe Kate] edit counter (for when Kate's Tool is down)

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:This is what I've found by testing all of the booksellers listed in WP's list of book sources:

:*[http://www.addall.com/ AddAll], a price-comparison site, finds the best prices. They have the best results display: they list the results by the total price, but also give you the book cost / shipping cost break-down, tell you the shipping speed, and let you save books to a "memo list" of books you're interested in.

:*[http://www.isbndb.com ISBNdb] usually comes up with the same or worse prices than AddAll. But it has three great features no one else has: "Price History" shows you how the average price, or the price at specific book sellers, has changed over time; "Books on the same shelf" lists books with nearby Dewey decimal classification entries; "Similar books" seems to list books related by keywords.

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:*[http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/ The Cloud Appreciation Society] has a great website with information, photos, art, videos, and links

:*[http://www.cloudman.com/ Cloudman] is a meteorologist who loves to share his enthusiasm for clouds

:*The goal of [http://www.forspaciousskies.com/ For Spacious Skies] is to make people aware of the sky above them

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