User:One Salient Oversight

Sortition

I am the founder of New Tasmanian Democracy, a group aiming to implement Sortition into the Tasmanian parliament.

Userboxes

I have too many of them. If you want to see the teeming millions of userboxes that define me, go to my userbox page. (To Robert from Church, click that link)

Click here to see all the userboxes I have created and feel free to improve them.

And now, an award...

This user has been awarded a barnstar for their contributions to WikiProject Userboxes.

For your tireless work and good naturedness towards all, especially on the New Userboxes Discussion Page. Enjoy! MichaelHenley _{(Page-Talk-Contribs)} 06:41, 8 May 2007 (UTC) Cool. My first one! it took me 3½ years...

Interests

The following interests have yet to have userboxes created:

Helping Pentecostals and Charismatics to embrace Biblical Theology
Social Market Economics
Church planting

Jim and OSO

This user has been lucky enough to meet Jimbo. ^†

Scene from Millennium, Episode #1

Man: "I'm Peter Watts, from the Group." [He hands Frank an envelope.]

Watts: "I would have faxed you, but I wanted to introduce myself."

Frank: "I heard you were down looking at the body. Did you find anything?"

Watts: "A few things slipped by. One salient oversight... "

Why I like contributing to Wikipedia

Ever since 1998 when I went online, I found that I was engaging in all sorts of intellectual debate in message boards. Too many times the debates ended up being trolled and I dreaded going back to debates. I also found that I spent a huge amount of time researching and preparing these responses - and then realising after 2-3 weeks that no one read them and that they were lost forever.

Wikipedia allows me to create articles and modify articles without having to bump into direct conflict. Because I have to be NPOV it means that I have to be reasonable in my prose which is less likely to cause offense.

Wikipedia also allows me to work on it whenever I feel like it. There are no deadlines. I do not have to contribute on one particular day if I don't want to. It is always there for me to go to whenever I feel like it.

And finally the work I do on Wikipedia is meaningful. I am creating text that people can use and think about. Even if my work gets modified, the fact is that it has been used to build something better. Moreover, the work seems likely to endure. It could be that in 20-30 years my work on Wikipedia will still be available and accessed by many.

Images I have uploaded

Really interesting pages

Wikipedia:Unusual articles - One of Wikipedia's best pages.
Synaesthesia - Pick which shape is named Booba, and which shape is named Kiki.
Snowball Earth - It was very cold once.
Noctilucent cloud - Clouds that inhabit the mesosphere at an altitude of around 85km.
Yellowstone Caldera - Kaboom! One way of getting rid of America.
Cumbre Vieja - A Volcano in the Canary Islands. If it erupts with enough force a tsunami could wipe out the Eastern USA.
Storegga Slide - Caused a megatsunami that occurred in 6100_BC off Norway.
Siberian Traps - Siberia created by lava flows.
Tunguska event - A comet hits Siberia in 1908. 10 - 15 megatons!
Vitim event - A meteorite hits Siberia in 2002. Only 4-5 kilotons.
Avro Arrow - A Canadian Jet Fighter that was scrapped despite being one of the best designed planes in the world at the time.
New Coke - Never made it to Australia. I would've liked to have tasted it.
Adventure (Atari 2600) - Created by Warren Robinett
Silverpit crater, Shiva crater, Boltysh crater and Chicxulub Crater all formed about 65 million years ago.
The Star Wars Holiday Special - I saw this as a kid and it has been burned into my memory like overcooked marshmallows.
Intercontinental Peace Bridge - A proposed bridge between Siberia and Alaska across the Bering Strait.
Amartya Sen - My type of Economist.
Strange matter - "The ruptures ripped through the planet at hundreds of kilometres per second rather than fracturing only near the surface, as typical earthquakes do. One event occurred on 22 October 1993, when, according to the researchers, something entered the Earth off Antarctica and left it south of India 0.73 of a second later."[1]
Hans Guido Mutke - German fighter pilot who claimed to have gone through the sound barrier during the Second World War.
Polymath - I see myself as one.
Black Sea deluge theory - A theory that proposes that the Mediterranean Sea spilled over the Bosporus around 5600 BC, and connected the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Tollmann's hypothetical bolide - Earth hit by meterorites about 10000 years ago that killed off lots of plants and animals.
Passenger Pigeon - An extinct bird that went from 2 Billion to zero in just over 100 years.
Category:Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Never saw the show but I'm leaving this here so I can find out what really good B-movies are.
Alan Bean - The fourth man on the moon. No one remembers him.
Jewish Autonomous Oblast - A part of Russia's far East, founded in 1928 to relocate Russian Jews. It still exists today, with Jews making up 1.2% of the population.

Favourite adages

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity
The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true
Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
Indifference is more fatal than malice (mine) (Actually Clark's Law)
When the Word of God is explained; and the Gospel of Christ is proclaimed; the Holy Spirit is not constrained (mine)
Entertainment is a commodity; News is a right. (mine)

Useful areas of / for Wikipedia

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