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Raw data sources

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

Politics

 * 1) Hillary Clinton. Don't forget the 20+ murders left in her wake.
 * 2) Political issues. Bernie, et al.

Society

 * 1) American culture. Cruel and ruthless, or encouraging independence and smart decisions?
 * 2) Guns
 * 3) Hacking, skimming, security breaches.
 * 4) Millennials.
 * 5) Muslim refugees.
 * 6) Parenting
 * 7) Police Corruption
 * 8) Problems facing the US and western world.
 * 9) World issues. Greece.

Desertification

 * 1) Lake Oroville, 2011-2014. Lake levels dropping.
 * 2) Enterprise Bridge, Butte Co, CA. 2011-2014.
 * 3) Aral Sea, yearly pics 2000-2013. Sea levels dropping.
 * 4) Wikipedia Aral Sea. With images.
 * 5) Iran's shrinking Great Salt Lake.
 * 6) Lake Mead, 2000-2004. Lake levels dropping.
 * 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 Chad in Niger. 1972-2007. The whole post gives more examples.

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.

Forecasts

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

Aquifers and fracking

 * 1) Principle aquifers in the US.
 * 2) USGS Groundwater watch. Levels of ground water, average, above or below average.
 * 3) Map of US aquifers, and US fracking sites.
 * 4) Fracking wells per county, for US.
 * 5) Fracking in Michigan, including Kent County. Includes link to list of chemicals used by SkyTruth.
 * 6) Fracking in water stressed zones. Nat geo requires DRM software that Firefox does not support.
 * 7) Water contamination in NE Pennsylvania. Map showing number of complaints per township.
 * 8) Hillary supports fracking.
 * 9) EPA scientists call foul on study findings, data inconsistent with findings.
 * 10) EcoWatch Fracking News.
 * 11) EPA scientists admit to misleading public about dangers of fracking.
 * 12) How fracking increases earthquakes.

Anti-fracking orgs

 * 1) Skytruth.org. Chemical db by SkyTruth.org.
 * 2) FrackFocus.org. Where companies self-report chemicals used in fracking.
 * 3) Ground Water Protection Council.

Heat

 * 1) Number of days over 100F, Summer 2012. Map of US.

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.

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

Wiki stuff

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