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I think the last "self-help" book I read was The Tao of Pooh, about 10 years ago. And most of that was simply about Taoism, with a bend towards self-help in the last few pages. Not a bad book, but I'm not sure how much it's influenced me. It was entertaining, at least. The Cheese book probably would have worked better as a satire; as it is, it sounds tiresome and obvious. Koyaanis Qatsi 07:18 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

No, I take that back. More recently, I read The Celestine Prophecy: a friend had it at his place and wasn't reading it. It was a quick read. Talk about spoonfeeding ... the author couldn't just say e.g. "Ogres are bad"; he'd feel compelled to bring an ogre on scene afterwards and have it molest a goat or something. I guess he didn't do it the other way--present the evidence and then the conclusion--because the conclusions were so obvious and vapid. I remember one of the truisms was children are more perceptive than most people think. What the hell are you telling me for!? I remember being a child. Other crap about "dealing with" people, which struck me as a guidebook for insincere interpersonal relationships, with manipulation masquerading as courtesy. Not a KQ-recommended book, unless you're writing a book of your own and are discouraged about your writing. ;-) Koyaanis Qatsi 08:02 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, and chess.... Also good: "Sit on My Face," "Every Sperm Is Sacred," and of course, "The Spam Song." Koyaanis Qatsi

Like voting Republican!? I prefer articles titled whatever they'd conceivably be titled in common prose, and I prefer links that can be bracketed without being piped. In that regard, I voted for the two options that made sense. Koyaanis Qatsi

How do you know all the blogs linked to it? Koyaanis Qatsi 19:49 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Oh, I thought you meant linking to the wikipedia article about it. Koyaanis Qatsi 19:59 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)


Hi, why did you italicize the title of the article Who Moved My Cheese? do you not agree with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style "All articles should have the title or subject in bold in the first line"? Thanks for comments, Fantasy 19:30 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

It's bolded and italicized. Books, CDs, films etc. are all italicized in prose. Koyaanis Qatsi 19:33 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

But take a closer look at the Wikipedia:Manual of Style: Tom and Jerry is a movie, but it is NOT italic. The "Article introduction" should be BOLD, not italic. The examples in the "Title style" section are italics only, NOT BOLD. The speak about LINKS, if i understand it right, and a "Article introduction" should never be a link, as it is the article itself. Fantasy 19:52 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

None of the examples there are films (including "Tom and Jerry" in that context). If it were referring to a film title, it would be Tom and Jerry (see, for example, The Matrix). Maybe we need to include a suitable example in the MoS. -- sannse 20:02 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)

moved discussion to Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style. Fantasy 20:18 22 Jun 2003 (UTC)


  • How to Lose What We Have (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=19568), conflates communism and socialism, but a compelling watch anyway, about a dystopian society with a "master plan"
  • Perversion for Profit part 1 (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=00895a) and 2 (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=847), a disapproving overview of various flavors of porn which comes off like an advertisement for it
  • The House in the Middle (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?id=540), kind of like that game with the shells, shifting Cold War paranoia into a plea for consumerism
  • Design for Dreaming (http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=10561), a woman dancing around a studio singing about all the things she'd love her husband to buy her. Oh wow.



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