It's like, awesome. It's got bare sociology facts and that.
It's not being updated no more due to the fact that I ain't teaching Sociology no more. I still pop in from time to time to check if any oddballs have left comments and whatnot so if you are an oddball and are considering leaving a comment or whatnot, then GO FOR IT!
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Net Delusion - CIA edits Wikipedia
This happened a few years ago but it's still interesting.
i followed the cia world factbook for more than 10 years beginning in 1999. My first take was it was a nice resource. Until i read the history of iran and noticed a gap from around 1940 up to the entrance of the shah. No mossadegh, no democratic elections, etc. Maybe they thought nobody reads (a famous a.dulles remark.) It just seemed stupid. After a few years hiatus i checked again a couple years back and it hadn't changed. Today a recheck tells me they have totally changed the site so there is zero history. it's so weird.
i followed the cia world factbook for more than 10 years beginning in 1999. My first take was it was a nice resource. Until i read the history of iran and noticed a gap from around 1940 up to the entrance of the shah. No mossadegh, no democratic elections, etc. Maybe they thought nobody reads (a famous a.dulles remark.) It just seemed stupid. After a few years hiatus i checked again a couple years back and it hadn't changed. Today a recheck tells me they have totally changed the site so there is zero history. it's so weird.
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