Server update

We've been warned that there will be some server improvements made this evening, for the next few hours. You should still be able to see everything, but there may be commenting glitches while the upgrade is going on. Have no fear, we're supposed to bounce back smoother and faster tomorrow.

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Since I posted that open letter to Seed, it's only fair to post the reply I received the other day. We've just signed off with Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, to begin Phase I of our registration program. You won't actually see too many changes with this phase - we're essentially just…
Pharyngula will be going silent this afternoon. Do not panic, do not call 911, do not convert to Catholicism in a desperate search for succor. The Seed overlords are implementing a much-needed upgrade to the software that drives this place, so some of the functions will be turned off this afternoon…
And now for something completely different. Well, not exactly. It's just that I have an announcement to make that is for your benefit. Our (usually) benevolent overlords have informed us that they are going to be moving ScienceBlogs over to a new server beginning sometime after midnight tonight:…
Drinking Liberally is cancelled this week in Morris. If you're really hard up, you could go to the DL in Minneapolis, but really, why would you want to? We've got Al Franken, star of TV and radio, founder of the Midwest Values PAC, and best-selling author entertaining us at a DFL fundraiser here in…

sorry, completely off topic. Just a warning that Deepak is on the Colbert Report tonight.
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MikeG

Well, I certainly hope you're going to be up and running as smoothly as ever, if not better. Tomorrow is the big Carl Sagan memorial and blog-a-thon. You don't want to miss that!

Strib editorial backs evolution

Editorial: Evolution, creation aren't on same plane
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Opinions on grandma's turkey recipe may have equal validity. But evolution isn't an opinion; it's a scientific theory, backed up by decade upon decade of increasingly confirming research. It's as close to a truth as just about anything gets.
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