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Busy here so here are a few things to keep you amused:

Larry Arnhart asks whether Michael Behe has fallen from favor at the Discovery Institute.
Dembski (a pseudo-mathematician) wonders what a pseudo-documentary is and in so doing naturally calls folks names. Stay classy, Bill.
Jeffrey Shallit (a real-mathematician) fisks Robert Marks.
And while I’m at it … sample size of one analysis from Dembski.
Ed on the Week 2 performance of Expelled. Here in the Phoenix metro area they’re down to seven screens (from nineteen).

Comments

#1 Gridman
May 1, 2008

Any geographic pattern to the remaining 7 in Phoenix? I haven’t noticed it on any screens towards the center of town.
#2 Jim Lippard
May 2, 2008

Expelled is down to 655 screens nationwide as of today.
#3 John Lynch
May 2, 2008

@ Gridman

AMC Ahwatukee 24
Harkins Chandler Fashion Center 20
Harkins Arizona Mills Luxury 24
AMC Mesa Grand 24
Hollywood – Gilbert Stadium Cinemas
AMC Arizona Center 24
Harkins Superstition Springs Luxury 25

So, one in each of Chandler, Tempe & Gilbert. Two in Mesa and two in Phoenix. Nothing in the west valley.
#4 John Lynch
May 9, 2008

Week 3 update for Expelled in the Phoenix metro area. Five screens:

Harkins Chandler Fashion Center 20
AMC Mesa Grand 24
Hollywood – Gilbert Stadium Cinemas
AMC Arizona Center 24
Harkins Superstition Springs Luxury 25

Losing one from Phoenix and the sole screen from Tempe.
#5 John Lynch
May 16, 2008

Week 4 update for Expelled in the Phoenix metro area. Four screens:

Cinemark 16 Mesa (Dollar cinema)
AMC Mesa Grand 24
AMC Arizona Center 24
Harkins Superstition Springs Luxury 25