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pharyngula | September 4, 2007For a blogger, it's like winning a contest by breathing. All you have to do is link to THE TRUTH, and some lucky linker will win a 30G iPod in a drawing.
Read the rules. SCQ also has a new monthly writing contest, you can enter that too.
pharyngula | September 3, 2007This Canadian Cynic tells me I have to recommend this new blog, Progressive and Cynical. I think it's because they're Canadian and cynical too … I'll go along with it since they bear the mark of the scarlet A.
pharyngula | August 30, 2007His blog is now two years old, which means it is at that point where it's very cute but has an infuriating habit of saying "no" a lot and throwing tantrums. It helps if everyone makes sure that he gets his naps.
pharyngula | August 22, 2007We have a new scibling today: read Zooillogix for all of your weird and exotic zoological needs.
pharyngula | August 12, 2007Hey, Carl Zimmer and I share one thing in common: it's the hair. You can even see him on video if you've been wondering what he's like.
I may be meeting Carl next weekend in New York. What do you think — after a few beers, do you think he and I should head out to the Village and get tattoos?
pharyngula | August 6, 2007Well, I'm afraid we're going to have to start a blog war with Creek Running North since he is neglecting his bloggy duties by shunning blog wars. It's Catch-22, man—refusing to feud is an insult that instigates a feud.
Does he really imagine that people might read his writing simply because they like his writing, without the extraneous conflict motif to motivate us? What species does he belong to, anyway?
pharyngula | August 2, 2007PSA: The Countess has a new URL, so update your bookmarks. If you're wondering what she writes about the latest post there is about Kama Sutra chocolate molds, which is just about perfectly representative, I think.
By the way, we learn that the source of those molds is a company in Chicago. Now at last the real motive for the YearlyKos convention's locale in the Windy City is revealed — but then, we all knew the dirty hippies were into that free love thing.
I still wish I were there.
pharyngula | July 26, 2007So it seems that ScienceBlogs has a wikipedia entry, but there's not much there, and of course it's a little dodgy for Sciencebloggers themselves to write the entry. If anyone wants to improve on it, please do. Katherine Sharpe, our blogmistress (she's the one with the whip, but it's a nice whip), has dumped some basic information on the discussion page, so it ought to be fairly easy for someone to check the info and clean it up.
pharyngula | July 22, 2007In an article that suggests you can judge a blogger by their commenters, we get a snap assessment of Pharyngula and you, the commenters:
Pharyngula writes smart stuff that looks down on religion; he gets smart and dismissive commenters.
I wouldn't reject that characterization, but there has to be some appreciation of the diversity of people here. We do have some very dumb people who defend religion blindly, obviously, and some atheists who aren't very smart, and some smart people who are religious. I can see where the proportions are skewed in predictable ways here, and we've got a different…
pharyngula | July 18, 2007Everyone say hello to the Angry Toxicologist. Do so calmly, with no sudden moves — he's angry.
(I like angry.)
pharyngula | July 15, 2007Weirdly, Phil Plait expresses some of the same sentiments that I did in my last post. I probably shouldn't have consented to those Borg implants.
pharyngula | July 15, 2007This week, I tossed off a casual, flippant comment that launched a thousand ineffectual bastinados. I described a map that purported to show the frequency of religious adherents in the US this way:
It shows the concentration of ignorant, deluded, wicked, foolish, or oppressed victims of obsolete mythologies in the United States, with the lighter colors being the most enlightened and the dark reds being the most repressed and misinformed
Fury, outrage, and massive snits ensued. Blogs were riven to their very foundations by anger — "How dare Myers insult me…I am offended!" — and the sun was…
pharyngula | July 13, 2007Curses — we almost had Sandwalk in our grasp. If only we'd sent the borg queen in a little earlier, we might have overcome his resistance.
Ah, well. There are other blogs to conquer, although I must say the swooning and shrieking and histrionics among the SciBlings as we absorbed yet another godless evilutionist into the hivemind would have been … entertaining. I shall not regard this as a setback, since Larry's blog will still be promoting a nefarious world-view similar to my own. Bwahahaha!
pharyngula | July 11, 2007Tell me this isn't the truth.
I long ago learned my lesson. When I'm buckling down to work at the laptop, I quit the browser and email and newsreader and don't fire them up again until I've accomplished something.
pharyngula | July 11, 2007If you've been following the Bloggingheads site, you probably already know that the best thing on it is Science Saturday with John Horgan and George Johnson. Horgan and Johnson are splitting up for the next few weeks, and are getting different heads to make a pair. Next week, George Johnson and the physicist Sean Carroll will be teaming up for a physics-heavy session, and the week after that, it's John Horgan and me, of all people. I'm going to dig up my kids' old boy scout manuals and review the sections on knots just in case he asks me about string theory.
Sean brings up a few things I'm…
pharyngula | July 10, 2007Congratulations to skippy the bush kangaroo on reaching his 5th blogiversary!
In his honor, I'll have to put on my Skippy the Bush Kangaroo t-shirt when I get home.
pharyngula | July 4, 2007Say…I think I know this guy:
That fellow on the right has made the move to Scienceblogs and is nowwriting away at Neurophilosophy. Say howdy, everyone.
Hmmm…maybe we should also bring that fellow on the left into the stable, too.
pharyngula | July 4, 2007Hey, if you've been wondering what the sex symbols of science blogging look like, here's your chance: a video of some bloggin' microbiologists hanging out in Toronto.
Although, that title … it's hard to imagine an uglier word than "blog," but they managed to coin one.
pharyngula | July 2, 2007One of the early blogs that I very much enjoyed was The Rittenhouse Review, a Philly blog which I discovered shortly after leaving Philadelphia. It had gone quiet a while ago, rather mysteriously — it's another of those odd things about this medium that there can be so few signs of what's going on in real life from what we see online — but sadly, we now learn that the author, Jim Capozzola has died after a long illness.