Welcome to Weinstein.org. As some of you may have noticed, I've once again revamped the layout of the site as well as redesigned the welcome page. The intention being that this setup will be easier for me to add content to, while at the same time making it simpler for you to find the content.

Weinstein.org, mostly is an experiment, a "warehouse" of sites, pages, and knowledge of Paul Weinstein. Currently, it's divided into the following sections:

Site Map
What's New - This is the main home page for Weinstein.org. Here you can keep track of What's New on Weinstein.org as well as What's New in a few other places of the world.

Paul Weinstein - Everything you never wanted to know about me, plus a few things such as how to conact me or resume which you may want to know.

Digital World - Goings on in the Digital World such as an archive of technical papers and presentations I've done or details about what I do to make a living.

Social World - All about the goofy bits about my Social World such as family or Travel.

About Weinstein.org - Your lookin' at it - All the gory details About Weinstein.org.

Details
For those who want some technical information about this site. Its "hosted" by Vortex4. The site is on a Intel Pentium running FreeBSD, along with the Apache web server The pages on this site, graphics, and other work is done on my Apple Macintosh PowerBook G4 and are pushed live using CVS.

You can keep track of What's News on Weinstein.org using the RSS feed at: <http://www.weinstein.org/news/news.rss>

Traffic analysis for this site is done by Webalizer, which has counted over 100,000 visitors visiting Weinstein.org out of more than 1 million hits in five years.


Web Archive
The Internet Archive is an archive of public websites dating back to 1996. Since Weinstein.org is after all a public website, you can see an archive of Weinstein.org starting from jun 24 98 to apr 28 06. So feel free to check out the many versions of Weinstein.org.

Search Engine
If you need a little help locating the exact document you want on Weinstein.org, you can use this Search Engine for Weinstein.org to help you locate what your looking for. The engine isn't perfect so, if it locates a document, but you still can't view it let me know.

Lastly, it has become somewhat of a habit of mine to leave quotes on sites that I have created. So I'd like to leave you with these thoughts from The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan....

It is a fact on our beleaguered little planet that wide spread torture, famine, and governmental criminal irresponsibility are much more likely to be found in tyrannical than democratic governments. Why? Because the rulers of the former are much less likely to be thrown out of office for their misdeeds than the rulers of the latter. This is error-correcting machinery in politics.

The methods of science - with all its imperfections - can be used to improve social, political, and economic systems, and this is, I think, true no matter what criterion of improvement is adopted. How is this possible if science is based on experiment? Humans are not electrons or laboratory rats. But every act of Congress, every Supreme Court decision, every Presidential National Security Directive, every change in the Prime Rate is an experiment. Every shift in economic policy. every increase or decrease in funding for Head Start, every toughening of criminal sentences is an experiment. Exchanging needles, making condoms freely available, or decriminalizing marijuana are all experiments ... In almost all of these cases, adequate control experiments are not performed, or variables are insufficiently separated. Nevertheless, to a certain and often useful degree, policy ideas can be tested. The great waste would be to ignore the results of social experiments because they seem to be ideologically unpalatable.

Due to the foresight of the framers of the Bill of Rights - and even more so to all those who, at considerable personal risk, insisted on exercising those rights - it's hard now to bottle up free speech. School library committees, the immigration service, the police, the FBI - or the ambitious politician looking to score cheap votes - may attempt it from time to time, but sooner or later the cork pops. The Constitution is, after all, the law of the land, public officials are sworn to uphold it, and activists and the courts episodically hold their feet to the fire.

However, though lowered education standards, declining intellectual competence, diminished zest for substantive debate, and social sanctions against skepticism, our liberties can slowly eroded and our rights subverted.

From the conclusion of this [Revolutionary] war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, 'til our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.

_{-Thomas Jefferson}

Enjoy

Paul Weinstein
pdw@weinstein.org