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Rob Knop earned a PhD in Physics from Caltech in 1997, and did a 5-year post-doc with the Supernova Cosmology Project, and contributed to the discovery of the accelerating Universe. He was an assistant professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt for 6 years before scattering out of academia. He now works for Linden Lab, the producers of Second LIfe. (Note: this is not an official site of Linden Lab! Although I work for Linden Lab, all content in this blog is posted without the review or approval of Linden Lab. All statements and opinions expressed here are my own.)

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Write us up in Wikipedia!

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Posted on: July 26, 2007 1:01 PM, by Rob Knop

Hey, all of y'all's, go head forth to Wikpedia's Scienceblogs.com entry, and make it as good as you can.

Please say nice things about me. PZ just announced on his blog that people should go and edit the site, and I hate to think what it will say about me if his primary readership is all that contribute....

Well, OK, you can say mean things about me if they're true. No flamewars, though! That's not appropriate on Wikipedia. More important, though, is to get accurate stuff about the whole site and the whole collection of bloggers there. There's a bunch of stuff in the "discussion" page that was written previously. (My entry in the discussion page is blank, by the way.).

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"No flamewars, though! That's not appropriate on Wikipedia"

Rob, you become more annoyingly self centered, smug and insulting every day.

you must be working hard at being a protruding organ.

Posted by: Kevin | July 26, 2007 11:40 PM

Kevin -

Pot, meet Kettle. . .Except that's not entirely appropriate, as Rob really doesn't strike me as any of those things. Quite the opposite rather. So, Pot, look in the mirror.

Posted by: DuWayne | July 27, 2007 12:02 AM

Kevin -- what a bizarre response to that statement.

Posted by: Rob Knop | July 27, 2007 8:43 AM

Hey Rob, you need to take several steps back and maybe a stress pill or two. You take things far too personally.

Posted by: Magnum | July 28, 2007 1:48 PM

Magnum -- that is also a very weird comment. Where did that come from? Where's the personal offense and stress in this post????

Posted by: Rob Knop | July 28, 2007 7:13 PM

I don't think that the religion issue would be particularly divisive on Wikipedia. Perhaps a small blurb detailing some of the controversy. I'd hope that things like "PZ is the greatest human being in the universe; Rob sucks and is worse than everyone." would be scapped pretty quickly.

Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | July 29, 2007 3:41 AM

You guys realize that I was joking when I wrote that? Not all theists are a bunch of zealots who take themselves so seriously that they are incapable of a little joke here and there, you realize.

Posted by: Rob Knop | July 29, 2007 10:01 AM

"Not all theists are a bunch of zealots who take themselves so seriously that they are incapable of a little joke here and there, you realize."

I most certainly do NOT realize this. What is your evidence?

Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | July 31, 2007 2:02 AM