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Category: Pointless polls • Weirdness
Posted on: June 18, 2010 4:59 PM, by PZ Myers
OK, what is this thing? I've been nominated for Best Blog About Stuff, which is OK, but then…Best Celebrity Blogger? Somebody has a very slack definition of "celebrity". Then there's Best Religion Blogger — this is an atheist blog, sometimes, only vote for that to annoy the faithheads. But, really, this one is freakish: Hottest Daddy Blogger? What does that mean?
At least I wasn't nominated for Freakiest Blogger, Most Obnoxious Blogger, or Worst Blog of All Time.
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Comments
Posted by: skeptifem
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June 18, 2010 5:11 PM
Ewww. "Hottest Mommy Blogger".
Posted by: Isaac Sherman
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June 18, 2010 5:20 PM
I was disappointed they didn't have a Science blog category.
Posted by: sandiseattle
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June 18, 2010 5:26 PM
I'd have to agree with Isaac, a Science blog category is needed. But I'd nominate this one for "Best Comedy Blog". Pharyngula certainly keeps me amused, I even actually LOL sometimes.
Posted by: CJO
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June 18, 2010 5:30 PM
WTF? I went and looked at the "Best Religion" category (there are a couple of atheist/skeptic Biblical scholarship blogs that I check out regularly), and there are 218 pages of nominees!?
Way to narrow down the field, there.
Posted by: timothy.green.name
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June 18, 2010 5:32 PM
I see that Slacktivist has also been nominated for "Best Religion" blog. I've not looked at the competition, but he probably deserves it.
TRiG.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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June 18, 2010 5:33 PM
poopyhead du jour of the day
congratulations
Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk8H0BXaTmhbysApXhTPly-kjwVZyHYwkY
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June 18, 2010 5:34 PM
This likely just a scam to collect e-mail addresses. They require e-mail verification.
Plus their "view the 2009 winners" section says their highest voted blog received less than 500 votes. PZ could get that in about 5 seconds.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM
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June 18, 2010 5:45 PM
Seconded!Posted by: Ströh
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June 18, 2010 5:48 PM
This doesn't really compute for me. The site seems to pass the usual set of tests (level of complexity, ability to contact the owners etc.) and fairs reasonably well on a Google search.
But seriously, just a few hundred votes for the winning blogs? Unless the voting is somehow done by a jury that's either fishy or proof of a failing idea.
Posted by: Ströh
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June 18, 2010 5:54 PM
OK, this is weird: the site claims to be sponsored by an honest-to-god actual company: http://izea.com/.
Unless that is a smokescreen or a pure lie, I have to say this looks legit. Perhaps it really is an idea that haven't gotten enough attention to get more impressive voting numbers.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, Quel Dommage
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June 18, 2010 5:56 PM
I suspect googlemess is right in #7:
Posted by: Epinephrine
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June 18, 2010 6:09 PM
Re: #7
That's what my hotmail account is for ;)
Time to vote for some hot daddy blogging! (what?)
Posted by: Ichthyic
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June 18, 2010 6:11 PM
wow, being nominated as a celebrity blogger can only mean:
-you've become enough of a splash on the internet over the last few years to be considered a celebrity in your own right.
-getting notoriety on the internet now defines one as a celebrity.
It's almost circular...
Posted by: deiloh
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June 18, 2010 6:13 PM
The way I see it, I had to vote Best Religion Blog in order to uphold world peace. I would hate for it to turn into Muslims vs. Catholics vs. Protestants... just think of all the hard feelings. However, there is one thing that can unite all religions everywhere. They all agree that atheists are wrong. The things I do. I know, I know, no need to thank me.
Okay, I did it to annoy the faithheads.
Posted by: Andrew Hall
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June 18, 2010 6:24 PM
At least you weren't nominated as Best Serial Killer Blogger.
That will have to wait until after the bodies are found!
http://laughinginpurgatory.blogspot.com/2010/06/my-letter-concerning-sunday-school.html
Posted by: Ichthyic
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June 18, 2010 6:28 PM
That will have to wait until after the bodies are found!
what bodies?
*picks teeth*
Posted by: NewEnglandBob
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June 18, 2010 6:35 PM
I nominate bloggerschoiceawards.com as stupidest web site of 2010.
I wasted 20 seconds even looking at it.
Posted by: eeanm
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June 18, 2010 6:54 PM
Something about bloggerschoiceawards made it look like a spam site. If you go to vote you have to register, which points you to the payperpost site. It's one of those sites that pays people to lie and push products in blogs.
Posted by: McCthulhu is taking ∞ to eat all the pi
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June 18, 2010 7:00 PM
Maybe it's a good sign you were nominated for celebrity blogger. If humanity has advanced to the point where you don't just become famous for having a pleasant arrangement of meat on your skull (Paris Hilton) or did something disgusting on night-vision video (Paris Hilton) or because of who know or your family name (Paris Hilton), there may be hope yet. We may be at the point where one can become a celebrity by being intelligent, and promoting and doing good science. Carl Sagan, Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku and numerous other science degree holders and science promoters are far bigger celebrities to me than any airhead on some teenie TV show or fag vampire movie (and I mean fag in the South Park annoying git fashion, not the slight against gays version). Face it PZ, you're probably more famous now than William Hung. Congratulations! ;)
Posted by: Acronym Jim
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June 18, 2010 7:01 PM
Hottest Daddy Blogger just means you're over 30 and sport facial hair.
Oh, and you're "hot." Though I've never seen you sweat in either your blog photo or literall..litratu..literature-ally, erm..via you're blog posts.
Posted by: Acronym Jim
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June 18, 2010 7:03 PM
Erk: "your" blog posts.
Hoisted by my own pet peeve.
Posted by: Karl Haro von Mogel
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June 18, 2010 7:21 PM
I voted for your blog, PZ! I entered Biofortified.org into the contest, I hope people who take the time to register and vote for PZ might also take a second to click 'vote' for us! We're entered for Best Food Blog,
http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/95538
and best blog design:
http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/95537
Thanks to everyone who considers voting for us!
Posted by: Ströh
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June 18, 2010 7:25 PM
That would explain a lot, eeanm. A pay-per-post site would look professional even while it really isn't. It also explains what that Izea corp was all about.
To thank they claim to have a turnaround of $10 million... Makes you wonder if the medical profession was the right choice after all.
Posted by: JonD
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June 18, 2010 7:33 PM
@Acronym Jim:
I was expecting Hottest Daddy Blogger to be what you mentioned as well, so you can imagine my disappointment when I checked the other members of that category and discovered that it was something else entirely.
Posted by: LinzeeBinzee
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June 18, 2010 8:05 PM
"Excuse me miss, what's the soup du jour?"
"It's the soup of the day"
"Oh that sounds good, I'll have that"
Posted by: Krystalline Apostate
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June 18, 2010 8:20 PM
"Hottest Daddy Blogger" would be a good win: if you're ever in a blog war, you could declare you're the daddy, & win that way.
Posted by: bastion of sass
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June 18, 2010 8:31 PM
At first, I was perplexed. Best Blog About Stuff? I've been reading Pharyngula for two years (more or less), and I didn't remember any posts about "stuff."
But, like a smart little minion (because I know someone would call me on it if I was wrong), I did a blog search, and sure enough, PZ has posted about stuff. I'd just forgotten (and for that, I am heartily sorry.)
Some of PZ's posts about stuff:
The top ten list that covers all the important stuff
Cosmic stuff
The stuff of legend
Posted by: Shplane, some shit in french
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June 18, 2010 10:17 PM
#19
Huh? PZ has very attractive facemeat. There's no way to tell that that's not what he's famous for.
Posted by: atomjack
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June 18, 2010 10:25 PM
"Hottest Daddy Blogger" means your spawn has spawned a poll somewhere, identified it as one for you somehow, and had the living s**t pharyngulated out of it to stack the vote! Good going, spawn! What, it wasn't them?...hey leave off with the shepherd's crook already...urk..OK, 'bye now...
Posted by: Andyman
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June 18, 2010 11:00 PM
Perhaps you may be becoming an LGBT icon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_%28gay_culture%29
Posted by: CobraCom
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June 19, 2010 1:46 AM
Being obnoxious is nothing to shake a stick at. Remember that our own Paul Wellstone was considered one of the most obnoxious, loud-mouth bastards in the Senate. You've got a long way to go to live up to those standards, PZ. Being an obnoxious bastard is a full-time job with few perks. But I believe you can do it.
Posted by: F
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June 19, 2010 2:18 AM
Best Blog About Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
Poopyhead de la siècle.
Posted by: jcmartz.myopenid.com
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June 19, 2010 2:29 AM
While you're still in vote mode, it looks like one among the godless horde needs some help.
Posted by: McCthulhu is taking ∞ to eat all the pi
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June 19, 2010 3:17 AM
#28: I didn't mean to suggest that PZ didn't have a very aesthetically pleasing array of facemeat. I'm just saying there should be a lot of criteria above and beyond that one for the status of 'celebrity.' I'll also leave it to the ladies (and gents capable of appreciating the charisma of other gents) to comment on what scale they would fawn all over the pleasantness of PZ's facemeat. I only really have a mental grading chart of ladies' facemeat attractiveness, especially if they've decided to show up for said grading sans apparel, which for some reason seems to boost one up the facemeat attractiveness scale.
Posted by: Franklin Percival
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June 19, 2010 4:47 AM
Dear Chap, I have no idea what you have been nominated for, or not. I can't be arsed to read *blushes ashamedly*. Suffering from extreme pain and rebound insomnia. Look after yourself, it is locally near 09:00, and I think I shall hit myself over the head with a heavy mallet. Good morning, good night, whatever.
Posted by: wsa
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June 19, 2010 9:23 AM
Why not an award for Best Blogger's Beard? PZ would sure get it
Posted by: Carlie of the lacy, gently wafting adjectives
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June 19, 2010 10:10 AM
I vote for failing idea, given the the kinds of people most likely to be interested enough to vote in a blogging contest are the same ones who are savvy enough not to give an email to a website just to be able to vote in a blogging contest.
Posted by: Ohnhai
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June 19, 2010 11:01 AM
Considering the power pharyngulation (5k+ votes) PZ can easily will all these....
Posted by: Pope Bandar bin Turtle
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June 19, 2010 12:31 PM
o/t, but funny --
19 reasons why God torched Jesus
5) He is resin.
Posted by: Dae
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June 19, 2010 3:49 PM
Man. For a second, I thought the "Conservatives 4 Palin" blog (top of the "Worst" nominations) might actually be a joke.
Then I started reading the "Who is Sarah Palin" article and had to stop before I puked.
Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmL9krMADd_c4CJxRbXE0sLHKjRxX_7L9c
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June 19, 2010 4:08 PM
To be fair, PZ does have a page on IMDB, so there is an argument for celebrity.
My first post so I'm taking baby steps
My google mess should read "vallwarrior" or just vall
Posted by: The Countess
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June 21, 2010 7:15 PM
I know these awards. Some father's rights asshat nominated me a few years back for "Most Obnoxious Blogger" and I took it a badge of success because I must have pissed the guy off. :) I think Perez Hilton won that year and I see he's nominated again this year. I think he owns that category.
I noticed the registration requirement too and I won't give them my info so they can mail bomb me with spam. I'd use one of my fake e-mail accounts for that but I'm too lazy.
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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June 23, 2010 7:18 AM
ooooooohI smell a Pharyngulation in the works. I just wish there was a search function so I could find Mooney. There were spam blogs nominated on the second page, so it doesn't look like the vetting is any good.