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Are you on the Atheist Blogroll? If so, then you've got my humble little blog covered. If not, may I suggest:

http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2006/09/join-mojoeys-atheist-blogroll.html

In any case, my little slice of the blogospheroid is humbuggery.net, add if you please, I always enjoy you smart people talking about sciency things... I've never been on a fancy scienceblagroll o'theinternets before. :)

Posted by: Joe Fredette | June 3, 2008 10:23 PM

I've been subscribed to you for ages!

I'd be highly chuffed if you put me on.

http://ecstathy.blogspot.com

Posted by: efrique | June 3, 2008 10:38 PM

Well, I do say, I would love to occupy your blagroll.

Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | June 3, 2008 10:47 PM

I've never had my blag rolled... should be for an educational experience with lots of LOLS mixed in.

Posted by: Christopher Sisk | June 3, 2008 11:09 PM

I only occasionally have science-related posts (most are personal or technology oriented, and infrequent at that) but I would be honored to have a spot on your blogroll. Count me in.

Posted by: Eric Saveau | June 3, 2008 11:12 PM

/raises hand demurely

Posted by: Optimus Primate | June 3, 2008 11:17 PM

erv: Heh. That's why you need my blog in your roll, so you only need to remove the lisp (replace "th" with "s") whenever you want ecstasy.

(It's just a combination of "ecstatic" with "athy" - if, like me, you ever get called "athiest" then you must be very, very athy indeed.)

Posted by: efrique | June 3, 2008 11:24 PM

Honored to be on your blog roll...you could possibly be the 1st person to read my blog. Leave a comment, now that would make my day!

Posted by: Coulter Lewkowitz | June 3, 2008 11:27 PM

Hi ERV, how about some reciprocal blogroll back-scratchin'?
http://www.inoculatedmind.com

Posted by: Inoculated Mind | June 3, 2008 11:35 PM

Oh, and from the comic? It's missing "verse", as in "Blogoverse". I'm surprised xkcd missed that one.

Posted by: JanieBelle | June 3, 2008 11:37 PM

Teacher, may I be on your blog roll, please?

Posted by: Paul Lundgren | June 3, 2008 11:49 PM

ooooo!! I want to be on your blaaag roll please!

DepthDeception.Blogspot.com

Posted by: Jay | June 4, 2008 12:30 AM

Sign me up! I actually just (re)started my own blogroll earlier today, and I'm making it a point to do a write up on each and every blog I add to the list, and you are no exception.

liberteegalitetrivialite.blogspot.com

Posted by: Patrick Orlob | June 4, 2008 1:20 AM

Ooh, can I be on your blago-sphere-roll too? I'm sorry I can't reciprocate, unless you want to be known as \frac{1}{ERV}.

Posted by: Bob O'H | June 4, 2008 2:01 AM

i can haz sum trafic?

Posted by: NP | June 4, 2008 4:17 AM

Do you accept moonlanguage?

http://paholaisen-asianajaja.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Advocatus Diaboli | June 4, 2008 5:00 AM

Me too! That would be blagoriffic!

Posted by: MikeG | June 4, 2008 7:01 AM

I would be honored to be on a distinguished blogroll such as yours!

http://man-plan-can.blogspot.com

Posted by: Jake | June 4, 2008 7:43 AM

Oh, while you got help for "ecstasy" (me too, btw - love Ffox spell-check), try writing "fluorescence microscopy" on a daily basis. Soon, fluorescence will begin to flow out of your keyboard (though it also might mean you track etbr in somewhere).

Posted by: clear as mud | June 4, 2008 8:09 AM

I have two for your blogroll.

The biggest baddest blog in the world named Tangled Up in Blue Guy. All others named Tangled Up in Blue Guy are small potatoes. (Subtitled "A Hopeful Monster.")

Then there's a new one out there to which I am a contributor:
Clashing Culture.

Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | June 4, 2008 8:47 AM

I'm still shocked that Randall didn't have "Inter-tron" on that chart.

Oh, yeah, and I'd love to be on the blogroll, if you'll hold no grudge for being on your old, (don't be) evil provider. I'll even reciprocate, because I enjoy really snarky, intelligent science folk, but mostly because I'm lazy and just haven't gotten around to it before now.

Posted by: Ranson | June 4, 2008 9:49 AM

Oh dear - the strikethrough went missing. Bother.

Posted by: Sili | June 4, 2008 10:17 AM

Yo Abbie! I've had you on mine for a while now!

Posted by: William Cowan | June 4, 2008 10:48 AM

ooh, ooh! me!

Posted by: Joshua Zelinsky | June 4, 2008 11:17 AM

Timing, timing. I'm about to disappear for work and vacation travel, so my blog won't be updated until July. On the other hand, folks (per my last post there) can send in thoughts for making it a livelier place when I get back. (Knowing that I'd be leaving for a month, I haven't been putting up as much as I will after I get back.)

Posted by: penguindreams | June 4, 2008 11:36 AM

How about mine?

http://www.evolvedrational.com

Thanks!

Posted by: Evolved Rationalist | June 4, 2008 12:11 PM

Oh, BTW - here's today's post ...
Texas Dishonesty

Posted by: Stacy S. | June 4, 2008 12:35 PM

Mine is semi-random but usually science related. I did use it to help start a mini war with our college TV station regarding proselytizing on public $$$. ERV is already on my blogroll. Actually, it's number one. Don't tell PZ.

Posted by: Shane | June 4, 2008 12:38 PM

Me too, please, oh please, oh PLEASE!

TIA...

Posted by: Sam Wise | June 4, 2008 12:57 PM

I guess I have to make a blogroll now.

Posted by: qbsmd | June 4, 2008 1:19 PM

O Hai.
Im n yer tubes bloggeratin at
http://breckenblog.blogspot.com

Im doin it wrong all the tyme.

Posted by: Bert Chadick | June 4, 2008 2:03 PM

Just checking in.

Posted by: midwifetoad | June 4, 2008 3:34 PM

O'Inter-net-thingie!
Hear my plea:
Bring Back
Talk.Origins
Feedback!

Posted by: LibraryGuy | June 4, 2008 6:08 PM

I'm not quite sure what you roll your blogs of, but I do love smoking it afterward!

Posted by: cthellis | June 4, 2008 7:29 PM

MeMeMeMeMeMeMe!

(ahem...) please?

Love your blog - please continue kicking Dumbski and LiLo's asses.

Check my blog out at http://leeharrison.wordpress.com

Posted by: Lee Harrison | June 4, 2008 8:16 PM

My blog is only about a week old.

http://chromiumoxidegreen.blogspot.com

Posted by: Maria Salva | June 4, 2008 9:47 PM

Sign me up...

Austringer

Wesley

Posted by: Wesley R. Elsberry | June 4, 2008 11:16 PM

Love your blog, but haven't commented before (at least I don't think I have). Anywho, keep it up.

Posted by: ecoli | June 5, 2008 12:55 AM

Hi Abbie,

Am reposting below the latest wit and wisdom from my "buddy" Bill Dembski that he posted yesterday at Uncommon Dissent. He's absolutely clueless as usual.

Your lab days will be better and yield fruitful results. Hang in there.

Cheers,

John

4 June 2008

“Strengths and Weaknesses” –> Creationism –> Religion –> Unconstitutional
William Dembski

Here’s an interesting article in the NYTimes regarding science education in Texas. Laura Beil, the author, outlines the long-standing (pre-Dover) attempt by critics of evolutionary theory to teach the theory’s “strengths and weaknesses.” Although mandating that the weaknesses of evolutionary theory be taught falls well short of attempts to mandate the teaching of intelligent design, this too is unacceptable with hardcore evolutionists such as the National Center for Selling Evolution (NCSE). Their strategy to counter it? Treat any attempt to teach weaknesses of evolutionary theory as stealth creationism, therefore as religion, and therefore as unconstitutional.

This approach, however, may backfire. The NCSE cannot simply deny that there are any known weaknesses to evolutionary theory, because laundry lists outlining failures of the theory to match up with data are well known and widely circulated. But to engage in a discussion about why, for instance, the Cambrian explosion does or doesn’t count as negative evidence against evolutionary theory underscores that there is a legitimate scientific controversy here. The temptation will therefore be for the NCSE to argue, though they’ll be sure to soft-pedal it, that there can be no weaknesses to the theory. But that will raise the question whether anything could count as evidence against it. Haldane’s “rabbit fossil in the pre-Cambrian” doesn’t go nearly far enough here. Either the NCSE will have to outline the types of evidence that could count against evolutionary theory, or they’ll have to deny flat out that any evidence can count against it.

But if no evidence can count against a claim, how can it be scientific? Scientific claims, it would seem, must minimally be open to confirmation or disconfirmation in light of evidence. Unlike mandating the teaching of ID, mandating the teaching of evolution’s strengths and weaknesses may hold some promise for breaking the scientific materialists’ stranglehold over America’s public school science curriculum.

By the way, check out www.strengthsandweaknesses.org.

Posted by: John Kwok | June 5, 2008 10:23 AM

I humbly submit my URL for consideration of the mighty ERV
http://bornagainskeptic.net

You are the best! (regardless of whether you link me)

Posted by: BaS | June 5, 2008 10:48 PM

Roll me!

http://hotchicksdigsmartmen.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Janiece | June 6, 2008 6:05 PM

I go away for a few days and suddenly you're building a blagroll! I can be found here:

www.skullsinthestars.com

Posted by: gg | June 8, 2008 11:30 AM

Dammit! One more time:

www.skullsinthestars.com

Posted by: gg | June 8, 2008 11:32 AM

Please please will you link to me too?

Posted by: alison | June 26, 2008 6:09 AM