Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
PZ Myers writes
Time's former "Blog of the Year," the execrable PowerLine blog with which I share a state, has done it again: said something so stupid and so palpably false that I'm feeling a bit embarrassed about ragging on Oklahoma in my previous post--I should feel ashamed by association at being a Minnesotan. Check out Deltoid: down is up in the world of the Hindrocket.
I feel PZ's pain. I share a state with Tim Blair, who has now made exactly the same blunder as Hindrocket: "Al Gore's Gaia love story suckered the coasts, but is now slowly fading". We'll see a correction from Blair sometime around never...
Oh what? You saw this post a couple of weeks ago? But I'm linking to a different, brand new Blair post this time. And instead of linking to a June 27 UPI story about how the average take per theatre had declined and ignoring the increase in ticket sales, Blair is linking to June 26 Variety story about how the average take per theatre had declined and ignoring the increase in ticket sales. Next month he'll link to a June 25 story about Gore's ticket sales.
Meanwhile, box office takings have almost doubled since June 26 and An Inconvenient Truth is the fourth most successful documentary of all time. Not bad for a documentary about science.
Comments
. . . it's a science documentary featuring Al gore giving a slideshow, no less!
Posted by: Mark Shapiro | July 17, 2006 3:09 PM
But the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel made millions more in a shorter period of time! And you notice something? Yep, Caribbean! And its hot there! Ao obviosuly by using the super correct formulation that box office = my truth, people are welcoming global warming!
Posted by: Rob | July 17, 2006 5:11 PM
The companion paperback book is also doing dreadfully ... a mere #2 on the NY Times Non-fiction Paperback list. Must be a dead cat bounce ...
Posted by: Patrick Taylor | July 17, 2006 9:59 PM
Once agsin, you Oinkos are allowing mere facts to get in the way of The Truth.
Posted by: Ian Gould | July 18, 2006 10:58 AM