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Carnivalia, and an open thread
Category: Carnivals • Open Thread
Posted on: February 23, 2007 11:24 AM, by PZ Myers
Another week, another collection of carnivals, and important calls for submissions to more carnivals.
Send me links! The Circus of the Spineless #18 is going to be right here next week, and I only have a handful of submissions so far. Need…invertebrate…fix — gimme more.
We also have another edition of the Tangled Bank coming up at Neurotopia. Send me or host@tangledbank.net links to your more general science articles by Tuesday.
Comments
This is too, too good to pass up:
http://www.idarts.org/
Not a parody site (at least, not intentionally), it intends to be the artistic outlet for the Intelligent Design Movement.
At the moment, the second item on the blog is entitled "Divine Knowledge." But don't worry, Intelligent Design is NOT surreptitious religion.
Posted by: Matt Burstein | February 23, 2007 11:32 AM
Man, what's up with these ScienceBlog spam filters? Every few days, I try to post a comment which looks to me no more offensive than my average, and wham! it gets "held for approval by the blog owner" or just disallowed with an HTTP 403 error (which looks prima facie like a bug in their code). Then I discover I did something naughty like mentioning "soma" while discussing Huxley's Brave New World, which makes me some kind of deviated prevert. (Prevert, noun: the deviant of the future.)
I have a comment awaiting moderation over in the "Conservapedia has a friend" thread, by the way.
Posted by: Blake Stacey | February 23, 2007 12:02 PM
Posted by: quork | February 23, 2007 12:28 PM
If this is an open thread, and tell me if I'm out of line here, But I also started a blog, partially to echo some of the fine statements made on this website, but also just to try it out.
I'd definately be interested in getting some new readers.
I'm a 31 year old geologist from Denver. my blog posts are about politics, hardcore music, and of course, Geology.
www.cataclasite.blogspot.com
anyhow, as always, thanks for a great blog PZ, and thanks for a great forum.
Posted by: Joe | February 23, 2007 12:48 PM
Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent column about "The Higher Power of Lucky" in today's edition. You can read it at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/02/23/DDGRJN7MSO1.DTL
I have already ordered a copy of the book for my kids.
I never would have heard of the book without this "controversy." It occurred to me that if the author had used the word "nutsack" instead, this book would have gained wider acceptance. That's a pretty negative comment on the state of our culture...
Posted by: MikeM | February 23, 2007 12:53 PM
Okay, since this is an open thread, then to all whom it may concern:
A, space, lot. Two words. A. Lot.
Thank you.
Posted by: Rey Fox | February 23, 2007 1:22 PM
PZ,
Don't forget The Carnival of Mathematics #2. TCoM is just starting out and could use a boost.
Posted by: Johnny Logic | February 23, 2007 1:36 PM
Since it's an open thread -
I think we should come up with a "10 Questions to Ask Your Creationist"
1) If common decent is false, why do medical experiments on animals provide any correlation to humans?
2) What color skin did Adam and Eve have, and how did we get all of the other colors?
Posted by: No One of Consequence | February 23, 2007 2:31 PM
I admit I'm disappointed that the antispine bias here runs so deep that no one wants to talk about the KILLER CHIMPANZEES OF SENEGAL!
Posted by: MatildaZQ | February 23, 2007 3:15 PM
I was surprised PZ hadn't posted anything about the chimps yet either.
Posted by: No One of Consequence | February 23, 2007 3:22 PM
Maybe you have already mentioned this German site--with English Subtitles--explaining a bit of evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDNNE7Pac8
If not, now you have it.
Posted by: bernarda | February 23, 2007 5:03 PM
What annoys me most is that perfectly fine biological or medical terms are pervented (thanks Blake!), but the real ugly terms of creationists are deemed to be fine. That, and that one must use reference links sparingly.
Btw, since the modus operandi of scienceblogs filter is to pervent rather than permit, I would say that comments awaits liberation. But that's me.
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson | February 23, 2007 5:19 PM
To: No One of Consequence
I might have your answer to question 2 right here:
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-skincolor.html
Ken Ham has a book about it, too. I'm certain he's a reliable authority on the subject.
Posted by: MikeM | February 23, 2007 5:21 PM
Remember the scrotum thread? It looks like it got picked up by Yahoo! and the AP had to include this gem:
"Early reviews from such library publications as School Library Journal and Booklist did not mention "scrotum" -- the sac holding a man's testicles -- or any other possible problems."
Even print journalism sucks.
(let's see if this gets held up...)
Posted by: Mena | February 23, 2007 6:58 PM
If anyone hasn't seen the film Idiocracy yet, I highly reccomend it; it's one of the funniest I've seen in a long time. Check out the intro (natural selection; yuppies vs rednecks) over here.
Posted by: Brian | February 23, 2007 11:51 PM
PZ, next time you go to NY, be sure to check your restaurants out carefully. Not that you would go to a fast-food of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLOC3fK264&mode=related&search=
Aren't those cuddly rats cute?
Posted by: bernarda | February 24, 2007 5:47 AM
First, I will give you a koan, a phrase to contemplate. Today's koan is muzzle-loader. Repeat this phrase to yourself as you read this news story.
Posted by: quork | February 26, 2007 12:02 PM