Carnivalia, and an open thread

This is too, too good to pass up:

http://www.idarts.org/

Not a parody site (at least, not intentionally), it intends to be the artistic outlet for the Intelligent Design Movement.

At the moment, the second item on the blog is entitled "Divine Knowledge." But don't worry, Intelligent Design is NOT surreptitious religion.

Man, what's up with these ScienceBlog spam filters? Every few days, I try to post a comment which looks to me no more offensive than my average, and wham! it gets "held for approval by the blog owner" or just disallowed with an HTTP 403 error (which looks prima facie like a bug in their code). Then I discover I did something naughty like mentioning "soma" while discussing Huxley's Brave New World, which makes me some kind of deviated prevert. (Prevert, noun: the deviant of the future.)

I have a comment awaiting moderation over in the "Conservapedia has a friend" thread, by the way.

Man, what's up with these ScienceBlog spam filters?

Policy varies from blog to blog. Some blogs require aproval of all comments, some don't. The automatic filter tends to pick up words in the text of links, so if trouble shows up at the preview stage, try moving the text out of the link.

If this is an open thread, and tell me if I'm out of line here, But I also started a blog, partially to echo some of the fine statements made on this website, but also just to try it out.

I'd definately be interested in getting some new readers.

I'm a 31 year old geologist from Denver. my blog posts are about politics, hardcore music, and of course, Geology.

www.cataclasite.blogspot.com

anyhow, as always, thanks for a great blog PZ, and thanks for a great forum.

Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle has an excellent column about "The Higher Power of Lucky" in today's edition. You can read it at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/…

I have already ordered a copy of the book for my kids.

I never would have heard of the book without this "controversy." It occurred to me that if the author had used the word "nutsack" instead, this book would have gained wider acceptance. That's a pretty negative comment on the state of our culture...

Okay, since this is an open thread, then to all whom it may concern:

A, space, lot. Two words. A. Lot.

Thank you.

PZ,

Don't forget The Carnival of Mathematics #2. TCoM is just starting out and could use a boost.

Since it's an open thread -

I think we should come up with a "10 Questions to Ask Your Creationist"

1) If common decent is false, why do medical experiments on animals provide any correlation to humans?
2) What color skin did Adam and Eve have, and how did we get all of the other colors?

I admit I'm disappointed that the antispine bias here runs so deep that no one wants to talk about the KILLER CHIMPANZEES OF SENEGAL!

I was surprised PZ hadn't posted anything about the chimps yet either.

Maybe you have already mentioned this German site--with English Subtitles--explaining a bit of evolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDNNE7Pac8

If not, now you have it.

I have a comment awaiting moderation

What annoys me most is that perfectly fine biological or medical terms are pervented (thanks Blake!), but the real ugly terms of creationists are deemed to be fine. That, and that one must use reference links sparingly.

Btw, since the modus operandi of scienceblogs filter is to pervent rather than permit, I would say that comments awaits liberation. But that's me.

To: No One of Consequence

I might have your answer to question 2 right here:

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-skincolor.html

Ken Ham has a book about it, too. I'm certain he's a reliable authority on the subject.

Remember the scrotum thread? It looks like it got picked up by Yahoo! and the AP had to include this gem:
"Early reviews from such library publications as School Library Journal and Booklist did not mention "scrotum" -- the sac holding a man's testicles -- or any other possible problems."
Even print journalism sucks.
(let's see if this gets held up...)

If anyone hasn't seen the film Idiocracy yet, I highly reccomend it; it's one of the funniest I've seen in a long time. Check out the intro (natural selection; yuppies vs rednecks) over here.

PZ, next time you go to NY, be sure to check your restaurants out carefully. Not that you would go to a fast-food of course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLOC3fK264&mode=related&search=

Aren't those cuddly rats cute?

First, I will give you a koan, a phrase to contemplate. Today's koan is muzzle-loader. Repeat this phrase to yourself as you read this news story.

I have a comment awaiting moderation

What annoys me most is that perfectly fine biological or medical terms are pervented (thanks Blake!), but the real ugly terms of creationists are deemed to be fine. That, and that one must use reference links sparingly.

Btw, since the modus operandi of scienceblogs filter is to pervent rather than permit, I would say that comments awaits liberation. But that's me.