JAPH, wandering around WP's internals, thinking "wait, what?"

and because i can never figure out why this page isn't the one with my forum profile & posts on it, a link to my forum profile: http://wordpress.org/support/profile/vynce

3rd party resources you should not need but do:

* http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/version/3.1
* http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?_variables/index.html