– bi

Oops, I forgot to say this — you can stop the program any time (with Ctrl-C) and then rerun the program later to resume the crawling.

– bi

By the way, the program doesn’t do reverse whois, it only does domain name lookups and reverse lookups. (Doing mass whois lookups doesn’t seem to be good manners, and may not be legal either…)

– bi

I was actually intending to link Greenfyre’s dissection of the quiz

Ah… I liked that. :)

any chance of securing that script?

Here’s the most recent version (although it’s still not very recent). It needs the Perl package DBD::SQLite, by the way.

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climatesight:

I didn’t want to skew their stats.

:)

By the way, you suggested that you were working on a script to run reverse whois on several inactivist websites earlier (as part of the Twisty Maze)… any chance of securing that script? I’m woefully weak in my terminal-fu, and I’d be interested in applying it to some of the US health reform astroturf groups. I bet there’ll be some significant overlap, since most of the groups in the climate inactivist web are also libertarians.

“[climatologists'] funding depends on carbon being the cause of global warming.”

Actually, this doesn’t add up either, especially when you combine it with the fact that they also mention Christy. I mean, Christy is a ’skeptical’ climatologist, yet he was able to magically obtain funding for his research!

In other words, Wagner’s essay isn’t internally coherent either.

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Brian D:

Thanks for the thumbs-up again. :-B   Also, the FCPP’s quiz is here; I forgot that I had mentioned it in passing as part of a blog post on how right-wing think-tanks view New Media.

– bi

Speaking of, if you weren’t aware of it, they do seem to apply this paradigm both ways. They obviously forgot their knowledge of “checking things in advance” when they decided to post Frank Bi’s parody video on their ‘conference’ home page.