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Raw data sources

 * 1) Economy.  CEO vs worker pay, Healthcare costs, Personal income and taxes, Unemployment, College cost, Debt, US Dollar purchasing power dropping, Small Business.
 * 2) Education articles.
 * 3) Medical. Obesity rates for US and world.
 * 4) Glyphosphate
 * 5) Obesity and studies.
 * 6) Data storage. Archive sites, raw storage like Google Drive, Dropbox, image sharing sites.

Environment

 * 1) UN Atlas of our Changing Environment.  PDF, online Flash book, and mobile version sites here. Lots of before and after pics of environmental issues.

Ice Caps and Snow Pack decreasing

 * 1) Arctic News blog.
 * 2) Shrinking ice caps, 1980-2011.
 * 3) Melting glacier, 1911-2009.
 * 4) Mendenhall glacier, 1993-2010.
 * 5) Melting Muir Glacier, Alaska, 1941-2004.Another Muir Glacier comparison, 1891-2005.
 * 6) Sperry Glacier, MT, 1913-2008.
 * 7) California snow pack decreasing. 2013-2014.
 * 8) Greenland cumulative ice melt days, 1979-2007 vs 2012.

Desertification

 * 1) Lake Oroville, 2011-2014.
 * 2) Enterprise Bridge, Butte Co, CA. 2011-2014.
 * 3) Aral Sea, yearly pics 2000-2013.
 * 4) Wikipedia Aral Sea. With images.
 * 5) Iran's shrinking Great Salt Lake.
 * 6) Lake Mead, 2000-2004.
 * 7) Lake Mead water fell so much it needs a new, lower, intake. Another view of the Lake Mead lowering.
 * 8) More pictures of Lake Mead high and low. Has neat sliders to see more of one pic or another. Another pic of Lake Mead, before vs after.
 * 9) Lake Chat in Niger. 1972-2007. The whole post gives more examples.

Forecasts

 * 1) World maps if sea levels went up 216ft. (Unlikely but still interesting to see low areas.)

Society

 * 1) Millennials.
 * 2) Parenting
 * 3) Problems facing the US and western world.
 * 4) American culture. Cruel and ruthless, or encouraging independence and smart decisions?
 * 5) World issues. Greece.

Computer stuff

 * 1) Inventions. Electric, or super MPG cars.

Software

 * 1) Portable Freeware sites.

Shared and virtual private servers

 * 1) Wikimedia servers wiki entry.
 * 2) Webspace4rent.com. $3.80/mo (12 month term) gets: 1 website, 100 GB space, unlimited bandwidth, 100 email accounts, 10 MySQL databases (1GB ea). Controlled by cPanel.
 * 3) Wiki hosting services

Wikipedia dumps

 * 1) Wikipedia torrents. 11GB+ for one single file. Directory to download via web.
 * 2) Simple Wikipedia for English.
 * 3) English bz2 files. These are in multiple parts, you probably want the single part in a torrent above. More Wikipedia dumps in HTML, XML and other formats.
 * 4) Instructions for various Wikipedia downloads including readers, formats, etc. Most recent HTML format is 2008.
 * 5) Internet archive Wikipedia dumps. Careful, some are quite old.
 * 6) Kiwix software reads Wikipedia in ZIM files. Various zip files in various languages for Kiwix. Includes versions with no pictures ("nopic" in filename) and simple Wikipedia ("Simple").Other Kiwix ZIM files for Wikipedia are here. This includes English Wikipedia and Simple Wikipedia (with simpler language), and many other languages. Latest English Wikipedia: Aug 2015.
 * 7) Wikifilter offline reader reads Wikipedia dumps. WikiFilter is both a wiki text parser and a web filter. It converts wiki text stored in a wiki data-base (dump) file into html text, and sends the html text to the web browser. It requires
 * 8) a local XML dump file from here
 * 9) a web server like Apache
 * 10) a web browser like Firefox or Chrome
 * 11) Microsoft Windows
 * 12) WikiTaxi reads bz2 files. For Windows. It should run on a USB flash drive provided the flash drive was reformatted with  exFAT file system because of the large 11GB+ bz2 files that are needed. Imports BZ2 files and converts them to .taxi files. So you will need at least twice the space that the BZ2 file takes up on your drive.
 * 13) WP-MIRROR manages multiple local copies of Wikipedia and related Wikipedia projects. Debian package only, also works on Ubuntu. Try running Ubuntu as a VM under windows.

Misc stuff

 * 1) My Firefox add-ons.
 * 2) About Free Speech.
 * 3) HP Envy 700-074 Config: 12GB ram, intel core i5 4430 @3.0ghz, intel 4600 HD graphics (uses main memory), Windows 8 64-bit. The Intel HD Graphics P4600 processor-based graphics will support Microsoft DirectX11.1,* OpenGL* 4.0, OpenCL* 1.2 and DirectCompute 5.0 standards.
 * 4) Greasemonkey script Change strings to other strings. Also at Github.
 * 5) Primitive Skills
 * 6) Political issues. Bernie, et al.

Wiki stuff

 * Original Start page.
 * Steward noticeboard
 * Feature request
 * Export pages
 * my main page counter. Page counter.
 * Wikimedia markup language. Cheatsheet.