A new Molly, and new blogs
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Posted on: September 25, 2007 1:00 AM, by PZ Myers
We have a new Molly winner: congratulations to David Marjanović!
I've also updated the blogroll with a few new names.
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Congrats Dave!
Dave?
Davie?
Maybe he is hiding under a rock from Greg Paul? Cough! Cough!,(Papillae on the ulna of a non-secondarily flightless theropod?), Cough!..cough...
Posted by: Lago | September 25, 2007 1:17 AM
Bravo, David! As his immediate predecessor in the laureate ranks, I will now make arrangements to get the official crown to him. But the corsage, alas, is sadly wilted. PZ should really pop for a new one.
Posted by: Zeno | September 25, 2007 1:19 AM
I've noticed that while David's name (and Mr. Larsson's, and Kseniya's occasional Cyrillic nom-du-FSB) shows up fine in actual posts, they are all munged on the main page.
Is there any way to change the front page from character set ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8?
Oh, and congrats to Mr. Marjanović himself. Well earned, I say.
Posted by: Owlmirror | September 25, 2007 1:29 AM
Yup, well-earned, and I'd say David's a very good-natured fellow, too.
Funny, I've never noticed that (I rarely spend much time on the front page) but I see that you are quite obviously correct! Боже мой!
Posted by: Kseniya | September 25, 2007 1:37 AM
Congrats, David, even though I suggested someone else, you are aces in my book. I just don't try you pronounce your last name.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | September 25, 2007 1:54 AM
I am not sure whether to do this in this post, or the nomination post, but the launch is complete for http://www.tuibguy.com to replace http://www.tuibguy.blog-city.com
I have tested the feed and it works just fine. Would you please update my entry in your Blogroll of Fame?
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | September 25, 2007 2:02 AM
On the blogroll, could you make Sciencewoman's address a little bigger? It's like you're trying to hide her.
Oh, and congratulations to David!
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | September 25, 2007 2:15 AM
Congrats Dave, that was well deserved.
And thx, o Ancient One, for the addition to the Roll.
Posted by: forsen | September 25, 2007 3:31 AM
Indeed, way to go David!
I don't believe it, I MADE THE BLOGROLL I MADE THE BLOGROLL!!!!! (Mom's gonna be soooo proud. . . ) :)
Posted by: jeffox backtrollin' | September 25, 2007 3:45 AM
Sheesh, I almost forgot - thank you very much, Dr. Myers!
Posted by: jeffox backtrollin' | September 25, 2007 4:14 AM
Hrmm. We made an excellent choice as usual. [Rights monocle. The ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 character set transition makes everything a little blurry around the edges, it seems.]
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Oh, and congratulations to David, you have earned it. (Discussing with JAD? You earned it twice over!)
PS. That some ScienceBlogs style sheets use ISO-8859-1 is a common trait. Apparently you have to hunt every such blog owner down to affect a change in their 'defective' sheet code. (It could be worse though - the new The Panda's Thumb preview script exchanges the coding in the input boxes, so you have to remember to revert before posting.)
What has SEED done for its blogs lately? Not much, I think.
OTOH I assume they will have to fix it now if they are going to expand to include European blogs as the rumor has it. (And hopefully a new time zone. Mm, pristine posts... yummy.)
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | September 25, 2007 5:04 AM
Yeah. I made the blog roll. I feel like a new species of squirrel sure, speciation was easy you just hang out over there for a while and develop some genes which just don't mess with those other genes. Though, apparently extinction is just as easy.
Has anybody noticed that PZ runs his blogroll like an evolutionary algorithm? Easy to get there, but keeping your niche requires some fitness. Maybe it's just me, I see the Blogosphere as an evolutionary algorithm, not to mention science, design, and the game of hotter/colder.
Posted by: Tatarize | September 25, 2007 5:23 AM
So typical, I make the blogroll when I haven't blogged for a week due to a horrible cold. I can't even remember half of the absolutely brilliant blog topics I came up with during the endless feverish nights of last week...
Posted by: Felicia Gilljam | September 25, 2007 5:38 AM
Fame at last! I can't believe I'm on PZ's blogroll and in the People of Reason section too - thanks PZ.
And congrats to David too of course.
Posted by: Puddock | September 25, 2007 5:51 AM
New here, but glad I found you folks. I winded my way from an article on Beliefnet, which led me to Friendlyatheist, and finally here. The godlessness worries me a bit, given that I'm a fairly devout Pastafarian (visit www.venganza.org if you haven't yet). But I try not to proselytize too much.
At any rate, congrats Dave! I hope I like your writing, or I'll have to retract the congrats.
Posted by: OhnnyP | September 25, 2007 7:20 AM
Way to go Dave. Now... Let's get drunk and sing sailor songs!
Oh, wait. It's only eight in the morning. Best not to wake the neighbors with any unnecessary singing.
Posted by: Dan | September 25, 2007 9:04 AM
Future tip for including non-Latin 1 characters: use the HTML entity. Writing ć will show up right no matter what the character encoding being used: ć. (Sometimes you can't control the headers your server is emitting; this is the sort of situation that calls for HTML entities.)
Posted by: grendelkhan | September 25, 2007 9:35 AM
Thank you, thank you... =8-)
<stepping off stage>
Are you confusing me with someone?
It could well be that all dromaeosaurids were either flying (Microraptor, Rahonavis) or secondarily flightless. This has not been disputed in the last 5 years. (And for what that's worth, I personally have always liked the hypothesis since I first read PDW even longer ago.)
However, wings do not automatically equal flight or secondarily flightlessness. Wings must have been present before flight evolved. Google for "WAIR", for example. Alternatively, wings may have evolved for brooding, display, whatever. Considering the fact that we're talking about predators, quill knobs for preventing the feathers from being ripped out by struggling prey may have been an advantage. Maybe that's all we are looking at. We'll probably have to wait for more and earlier fossils to tell.
J as in "Skatje". Ć is between "ts" and "ch"; the Spanish ch is fairly similar. Stress on the second syllable.
HTML entities don't always work; I've seen plenty of "& e acute ;" in page titles, for example [without spaces]. But they certainly work often.
Posted by: David Marjanović | September 25, 2007 11:23 AM
In honour of Mr. Marjanović's long overdue admittance to this fine order (though they let me in, so here's your complimentary grain of salt), I present these words from one of Edmonton's most under-appreciated émigrés:
Posted by: Brownian, OM | September 25, 2007 11:47 AM
Curse you, scienceblogs' overly-clever comment parser! The character in question can be entered by typing ampersand, octothorpe, two, six, three, semicolon, which is what I was trying to enter above. This will work no matter what your character encoding is.
Posted by: grendelkhan | September 25, 2007 12:07 PM
Hm. I wonder how the ös will display on the front page? I suspect they will be transformed into UTF-8 by the comment script, and thus will not display correctly on the front page's iso-8859-1.
Posted by: Öwlmirrör | September 25, 2007 12:34 PM
That looks like it worked.
However, I suspect that ć will not display correctly on the main page, since that character has no equivalent in iso-8859-1.
Posted by: Not Torbjörn or Marjanović, but Owlmirror | September 25, 2007 12:39 PM
I'm proving that I have really very little idea how browsers decide to render particular glyphs. Oh, well. Hence the experiments.
Posted by: Owlmirror | September 25, 2007 12:42 PM
And there is the disingenuous mentioning of WAIR I was waiting for...
Posted by: Lago | September 25, 2007 12:49 PM
Octothorpe. Could that be PZ's favorite punctuation symbol?
Posted by: Zeno | September 25, 2007 1:04 PM
Could this be further evidence that Zeno and I are the same person?
Posted by: Brownian, OM | September 25, 2007 1:16 PM
Esteemed Mr. Marjanović, OM:
You missed a perfect opportunity. What you should of said is:
"A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this Molly. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this Molly than Jesus. Suck it, Jesus. This Molly is my god now!"
Posted by: King Aardvark | September 25, 2007 2:49 PM
Actually, without Jesus, we'd spend a lot more time talking about quill knobs. Which would probably be a good thing.
Never mind!
Posted by: Kseniya | September 25, 2007 3:28 PM
Depending on the font. Look what happens over here when I post vs. when I'm quoted.
Why the cheney is that disingenuous?!? WAIR is not terribly probable, given the kind of wingstroke it requires, but it's clearly a possibility -- among several, as I mentioned.
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | September 25, 2007 4:21 PM
Hello.
Thank you so much for adding me to your blogroll. However, the link isn't actually working.
The link should be: http://www.conservative-truths.com/
But in the blogroll the link is: http://www.conservative-truths.com/index.php
Thanks.
-Derek
Posted by: Derek Bartholomaus | September 25, 2007 6:39 PM
Damn....I didn't make the roll. I feel like I missed the cut for the cheerleading team. Well, I still feel I have a good product, so perhaps there are other like minded folk out there who will give me a shot.
Head on over to This Blog Title For Sale for a cup of relaxation.
Posted by: rich (richmanwisco) | September 25, 2007 7:19 PM
Yeah, well. Maybe if I write some key capture/remapping software in my spare time. [Have you noticed how more laziness somehow never cure laziness? Now, getting the SEED overlords to work, that seems like a plan.]
Hmm. OTOH I could change to US keyboards to force the issue...
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | September 25, 2007 8:00 PM
Congrats David.
And PZ, could you change ywut to "Man Who Got Arrested for Assaulting a Police Officer by a Cough." Actually, don't, I'm just pissed.
Posted by: Kent Kauffman | September 25, 2007 8:02 PM
No, I don't think so, Brownian. If we were, I'd expect to know.
Second, there is a more parsimonious explanation: I'm just copying off your paper.
Posted by: Zeno | September 25, 2007 11:02 PM
Octothorpe. Could that be PZ's favorite punctuation symbol?
And Jim Octothorpe his favorite octothlonist?
Posted by: bullfighter | September 26, 2007 9:44 AM
Čestitam, David!
Posted by: bullfighter | September 26, 2007 9:54 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7014335.stm
Posted by: Michael Bo | September 26, 2007 11:36 AM
Checked the list twice and couldn't find 'Crooks and Liars.' An unfortunate oversite I hope.
Posted by: tom | September 26, 2007 12:23 PM
Are you honoring me?
(I have to guess via my inadequate Russian. When I was 2 to 3 years old, I forgot the language from which my surname comes, because there was nobody to talk to.)
Posted by: David Marjanović | September 26, 2007 1:37 PM
Okay, this is weird. When I copied and pasted the incorrect link for my website it posted correctly in my comment.
In the blogroll it has "-" where a hyphen should be. Basically it is writing "conservative-truths" when it should be "conservative-truths".
Aargh...
It's doing it again. It must be some sort of webcode thing. I have added a space between each character so that you can see what it is doing: "& # 4 5 ;" It is turning this code into looking like a hyphen, but it isn't actually a hyphen on the blogroll, which is what it should be.
My brain is starting to hurt. I just don't understand html code well enough.
I really do appreciate the link. I'm just hoping that it will actually link to my site.
-Derek
Posted by: Derek Bartholomaus | September 26, 2007 5:37 PM