First of all, Fezz just made my list of good **** on the planet.
I think that often what newbies require isn't book learnin', it's context and interpretation of seeming contraditions of textbook phrases.
I've tried to offer answers, like those I could have used many years ago, to questions about common areas of confusion: Prism, the EM spectrum, that kind of thing.
I feel the obligation to pay forward the help I received back when internet shoppers didn't make us all defensive.
I don't propose to be a shopping-info service, I propose to support a civil help-a-newbie-today service.

Bravo Fezz. I respect you greatly. I hope that the community agrees to be, well, a community.