Koufax awards--voting open

I'm late. Wampum's opened voting for the 2005 Koufax awards. Aetiology is up for best new blog and best series (more on that after the break). Panda's Thumb is up for best blog community, and many other Sciencebloggers are up in various categories. Hope you've been checking them out over the past several weeks as Wampum relseased the nominations, so now's your chance--go vote!

[Edited to add: Janet has a good list of science bloggers nominated, here.]

Wampum has up nominations for best series. Aetiology's on there for the series I wrote on pandemic influenza. Their link actually goes to any post containing the word "pandemic," which includes a few post in addition to the original series. For convenience, I'll provide the links to the original series here:

Day 1: History of Pandemic Influenza.
Day 2: Our adventures with avian flu.
Day 3: Challenges to pandemic preparedness
Day 4: 1918 influenza virus reconstructed
Day 5: How ready are we, and what can YOU do?

Since I can already anticipate the comments about "hype," please note that this series was written for the Flu Wiki's Pandemic Flu Awareness Week, in part to *dispel* some of the "hype" that was out there (of the OMIGOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE type). (Also note the posts are from last October, and some are already out of date). The posts consist mainly of an overview of the literature--the history, why scientists are worried, what's being done to prepare, etc.