The counter on the page is ticking upwards to the millionth scienceblogs comment — we're less than 50 comments away, so the winning submission might be right here on this thread — so it's a good time to remind you Minnesota region residents that Greg & PZ's Excellent Party will take place the day after tomorrow, Thursday, at 7pm. You are all required to attend and make a comment.
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Oh alas I would love to attend. Being in Germany doesnt help!
blah blah blah blah blah blah blahty blah
I'm usually a bit of a lurker but I can't resist the temptation to inch the counter just a little bit forward... :)
I'd love to go too, but I'm in the UK.
Oh, so unfair - the winning post will happen while I'm on my way to work :P
There are fewer than 40 left. This is going to be mad.
holland is too far away...
promise to get faceless in your honour then...
The commenter's dilemma: if I post now, then I won't be the 1,000,000 commenter; but if I don't post now, we'll never get there. What should I do?
I try again.
Is it okay to spam this thread with comments in the hope of getting the one millionth comment?
999962...
So... how is everyone?
Just post anyway.. It's great that so many people are posting in science blogs...
Jeremy @ #10:
Yes.
If anyone else is in Germany I propose we have a parallel party time at the same time and join up with some kind of video conference. Who is up for it?
I have a laptop, camera and UMTS card, I can do the video link from this end!
We are 39 comments away from 1.000.000. Perhaps it's unfair to comment for the sake of comment, but...
How exciting, it's almost here!! Wish I could go to the party :(
I'm going to be eating dinner when the 1,000,000th comment comes on. bugger
It seems like only last week when we were still counting to reach 500,000.
I'll repeat my earlier comment that was off-topic on another thread.
As the number of comments approaches 1 million, the proportion of new comments concerned with the total number of comments to date approaches 1.
Actually, I expressed doubt in this principle when I posted it, thinking that not enough people really care. Maybe it IS true after all. Or maybe it's just because there's a post concerned with the milestone.
I'm in Germany too :(
Perhaps we European readers can have our own party?
My comment brings no content to the discussion.
Jeeeeez! I don't even like parties. I guess I could make an exception for PZ's though, because rationalism would rule, until the beer toook effect, anyway.
Any pharyngulites in Norway, Sandnessjøen maybe, would be nice to come together someday...
I've had dinner - I was in the middle of a DVR episode of Dexter but I'm going to stick around to watch the wheels click over.
Shameless post with only one intention.....
999966!
If you're not in, you can't win, as they say!
The comment count is going up much more slowly than the number of comments on this thread. Perhaps it's all a big psychological experiment by the Seed Overlords to see what it takes to break the Internet?
Why a million anyway? why is 10^6 any more significant than 10^5 or 10^7? Or for that matter, than 982411?
It's nothing but base-10 chauvinism I tells ya!
Gavin @15
Great minds think alike (not spamming this thread whatsoever) ;)
@ 21
And now we are 2! Another 2 or 3 and I think we can do a good video party link up!
Anyone in PZ's end able to do a video link up over mobile internet?
hey, was this all about then?
Another shameless post, but I still love PZ!
Despard's right - i think we broke the internet.
Bah. I'm too far away from anything for a decent science party.
aw
methinks PZ has the bussiest blog here!
You're paying my air fare, right?
Shameless response to your post with only one intention.....
Here's a preacher in Texas who loves PZ..
I'm impressed that scienceblogs.com has reached one million comments. It shows not only how much interest there is in science, but also how much interaction science stimulates.
Just thought I'd throw my hat in the ring.
First!!11!! Millionth.
I can has the millunth commint? :)
I hope Lluara gets it.
The winning comment should be here. We've done more than anyone to get it to a million.
Why does it seem like the number of posts made on this blog are going up faster than the official counter?
@ 28
A few people have opted out of being considered for the 1000000 comment. Maybe they are not being included in the count?
Yeah, there should be some way for Pharyngulites outside the US to meet up. Anyone in Luxembourg? Heck, I'll take Brussels?
Hmmm...if I went in and deleted a thousand comments, would the counter go down? Would everyone then go insane?
I wonder if the Seed overlords will be cheesed off if the comment has nothing to do with science in a thread with nothing to do about science? I mean, it makes the promotion of "Scienceblogs" that much harder, because you know this is all for an advertising blitz.
I'm tempted to just submit the word "vagina" 50 times...just so a slut could win.
rotterdam.
biertje?
Ohh, the excitement!
Hmm.. Less than 30 left. Will the exact 1-millionth commenter be the winner?
Just doing my part
I suspect we've passed the millionth comment by now, since the comments here have been so prolific. I don't know why the official counter isn't showing it.
Yeah, this comment is worthless.
@49
I am in Frankfurt. That is easy to get to from Bussels :) Come and join me and CosmicTeapot for a party here and we can do a video link up.
Anyone else up for having international parties and doing a video link of it to PZs party?
This is assuming someone in PZs one can do a mobile internet video link up too? Anyone over there up for it? Come on! I think a massive 1000000th post international video linked up party is a COOL idea!
Here's my counter whore comment.
Hi moother,
Rotterdam is my home town. Unfortunately I don't get to go there very often lately except for family purposes.
Hey, if I win the contest, I promise to liveblog the trip via Twitter. Just sayin'.
Is it just me, or is the counter moving slower than actual comments are arriving? This thread alone has more than 50 comments, and when it started we were less than 50 away from 1 million. But the counter is still lagging.
i didn't expect the spanish inquisition.
Go Quetzalcoatl!
I'll be number 1,000,000 if you like, just if no-one else wants to do it. You have to get me from japan though - but I'm not adverse to being loaded in a packing crate and sent by ship mail....
Good luck everyone! I wish I could go to the party but unfortunately I live too far away....
Ranson @ #51:
Maybe giving the official counter a delay gives them the plausible deniability to choose a comment they deem worthy of promotion?
ploon, let's find more...
majority wins!
The winning comment should be a slut. We've done more than anyone to get it to a million.
Go Quetzalcoatl!
I also want to know if Seed would pay my air-fare from the UK? A ticket on an airline that's not likely to go bust while I'm in the US would be appreciated.
I spit on your one millionth comment contest! Patooie!
Vagina
So, what do I win?
@ 50
No probabaly not!
If your comment just won your own competition though, THAT would probabaly make us go insane :)
Yes, I noticed that too. Weird.
We must already be there... I'm celebrating in any case!
Is it just me, or is the counter moving slower than actual comments are arriving? This thread alone has more than 50 comments, and when it started we were less than 50 away from 1 million. But the counter is still lagging.
I need a good excuse to for my boss as to why I need to leave work a few hours early so that I can be in MN by 7ish on Thursday. Any ideas?? Please help!
I think we're far and away past 1,000,000 at this point. That ticker isn't moving nearly as fast as the comments in this thread alone.
Holy moly, I'd better post quick.
Hey... #62 is right. What the hell is happening? Sorry, a slight slip there. What the naturally occuring evil side of humanity that we can rationally perceive is happening?
Not a million yet - but only 22, make that 21 away, so I'm figuring it's all to play for. Can I have a nice packing case please??
I got a timeout on my previous comment. What if I keep pressing F5 and get "accidental" multiple posts, will that count?
Btw: vagina.
I want to see the breakdown of where all the posts came from - preferably in graph form. I want to see the huge spike from Pharyngula while the cracker-insanity was running at full tilt.
It's like watching something fall into a black hole. The closer it gets, the more slowly it seems to approach.
Go Quetzalcoatl!
Uhh...
999979?
Bride of Shrek: Just post the lyrics to the Bloodhound Gang's "Three Point One Four".
"Know what I really want in a girl? Me."
It is strange that the count is going up so slow - it seems like a straightforward database query to me, but I don't really know anything about how it is implemented.
@48:
I doubt the number of comments from people who opted out make as big of a difference as we see.
The counter lies. LIES I TELL YOU
We must already be there... I'm celebrating in any case!
Vagina
Into the "Submission timeout" now...
Wouldn't it be funny if wOOt won?
OK, out with it, who broke the counter?
Posting seems to be very slow this morning. I wonder why? :-)
Yes, I noticed that too. Weird. And man, is it taking forever for a post to get through.
Is it just me, or is the counter moving slower than actual comments are arriving? This thread alone has more than 50 comments, and when it started we were less than 50 away from 1 million. But the counter is still lagging.
Hell, I'll celebrate.
Better get me a seventh glass of that fine chardonnay I've been drinking.
Oh, and....vagina.
Go Quetzalcoatl!
I need a good excuse to for my boss as to why I need to leave work a few hours early so that I can be in MN by 7ish on Thursday. Any ideas?? Please help!
I'll throw my hat into the ring!
We must already be there... I'm celebrating in any case!
O_o multipost FTW
Geez, this is like trying to buy tickets for The Police via a website. Slooooow.... and by the time you get through, the concert is sold out.
a huge vagina
I was supposed to be "your mighty overlord", but this typo seemed more than appropriate....
We must already be there... I'm celebrating in any case!
@101
Im guessing from your username you are a girl.
There was a girl in my first job who used to tell her boss (male) she had to go home with "women's troubles".
Not once did he EVER ask for clarification and just let her go :)
I can has millyun?
Submission timeout... What if I keep F5-ing? Do "accidental" multiple posts count?
I think you'd end up getting some nasty emails that would rival the cracker episode if you went and deleted a thousand comments!
Vagina
Oh I rescind my hope of Lluartarda winning.
I want Zen commenter Wòót to win.
Amtrak is faster than this counter, for Pete's sake. Get there already!
That sounds like a lot of fun- it is a shame that you are way up in the isolated north.
Btw: vagina
@101
Im guessing from your username you are a girl.
There was a girl in my first job who used to tell her boss (male) she had to go home with "women's troubles".
Not once did he EVER ask for clarification and just let her go :)
Spooky,
maybe it means a million "intelligent" comments. In which case all of us who have ever said shit, vagina or bollocks are stuffed.
cracker FTW!
The commenting I can do, the attending... not so much. Wish I could though. Maybe if you have a party in south western Virginia.
Cheers,
Ray
hmm.. looks like the counter at the top of the page is off. If we were less than 50 posts away, we should be 50 over by now!
damnit.. I really wanted to win
It looks like the server is getting clogged. Posts aren't updating properly.
Spooky,
maybe it means a million "intelligent" comments. In which case all of us who have ever said shit, vagina or bollocks are stuffed.
Mandatory comment, as required.
I discovered today the Pharyngula group on Facebook. Maybe that could be a way of organising something outside the US. Anyone else a member?
1000000 vaginas
14 more! Maybe by the time this post finally makes it through it'll be the one. Here's hoping...
999,987...
I suspect the online party is going to be over soon...
It would have been really funny if the positions were reversed.
ParTy? Where? Can I come? :)
Toni
Here's my try
999,989...
Meanwhile, Sastra's over on the D'Souza thread posting real, substantive comments. She deserves it. Still rooting for wOOt, though.
Mandatory comment, as required.
The problem is that you are using a non-sophisticated version of the term 'posts'.
Some posts are, of course, to be taken literally while others are metaphorical.
We, being just mortals, cannot expect to know the mind of the post-counter.
Ok, glass of chardonay number 8.
Will someone (other thasn lauausasu/llauauau/whatever) win this so I can go to bed!
Massive big vagina.
It's got to be vagina.
Myeah, we'll have to resort to some kind of anticipatory posting. Sort of like leading the target in shooting.
Better some whore post win than some troll.
I would like to stay and post through the 1,000,000 mark, but I do have to earn a living. Hope a Pharygulite is the lucky poster.
Who knew that being isolated over here in the UK would have a scienceblogs benefit - at least I don't have to get up early to see the winner :)
Janine ID,
is there a promise here??
SEVEN!
Please, make it end... I must go shower and head to the lab. My mice are going to be very upset with me when I'm late.
How are they counting these comment's anyway? It doesn't seem to add up... vagina.
And Quetzalcoatl gets it!
994?
Oh for fucks sake.
One last "vagina" and I'm off to bed.( a phrase I'm sure Clinteas has uttered on occasion).
You have got to be kidding me... Almost 150 posts here and still not a million?
Woo Hoo! Almost there!!! 1,000,000!!!
Cheers,
Ray
I'll be there. :)
Paul @ 143:
Not so isolated. There's a few of us Brits on here.
This is getting ridiculous! 5 more to go.... it's gotta be within the next 30 seconds. Let's get 'er done!
Darn, I keep forgetting to add: vagina.
FIVE!
Isn't the 1 millionth post winner actually some current poster picked at random rather than the actual millionth poster (which, if the current counter effectiveness can be believed, must have occurred months if not years ago!)?
BoSOM,
me,vagina???
NEVER !
Something is definitely FUBAR with the count
The lines at university registrars in early September move faster than this counter.
Only a few to go!
The excitement!
The heavy breathing!
Party, Party!
Cheers,
Ray
Two left... let's give it one more try.
for the win...
It's getting close to bedtime here; it's been a busy day - I appear to have started my own religion on the 'toenails' thread.
Three! THREE vaginas! MWAHAHAHAHA!!! *thunderclap*
Ok, one last time...vagina
Damn that counter moves slow. I theenk when we get neer a millium we dang broke that intertoob thingy.
Yep. Your changes of winning on posting in this thread is about 1:100'000, the same for everyone.
Just noticed that there's a sitemeter logo at the bottom of the page - 33.1 million+, and I'm guessing the current suspense is boosting that considerably. Let's see if we can get 34 million by the end of the day :)
One more try.
Go Quetzalcoatl!
One last shameless post. A lurker like me probably does not deserve to win anyway.
It is going to be interesting to see what the requirements for this counter are - since there are over 150 comments on this thread alone, started with the words "less than 50" comments to go.
Three left when I checked.
JC
Counter says 2 comments left 8)
three to go. Jesus. It's like watching an ebay auction
Is mine the millionth?
999999, according to counter...
Something is definitely FUBAR with the count
Official count is at 999,999
Cheers,
Ray
Ok, one last time...vagina
Damn that counter moves slow. I theenk when we get neer a millium we dang broke that intertoob thingy.
Well congratulations to whomever got it!
One million!
Its done,thank Toni....
Thar she blows!
Nooo its like the Y2K bug. cant go to 1m comments.
It's saying a million!
Is it just trying to trick us?
Done.
@ 173
Actually my theory is somehow they have discounted posts to THIS thread from the 1million and the counter is going up for comments on all the other threads.
Good idea if this is true. :)
Yay!!! We finally made it. That was pretty cool to look and see the ticker sitting squarely at 1,000,000. Finally. Now it's off to shower and eat some Special K. Congrats to the winner!
WE HAVE A MILLION!
I just saw it switch to 1,000,000 as I clicked to this post!
999,999? I wonder if it's a fluke or broken.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand break
One million. :-)
pffffffffft.. vaginas.. I say "Boobs!"
And yeah, something's up with the counter and even posting on the site. I keep getting the error message after posting.
toni
Yeah, I had to get a screenshot of the 1,000,000 for posterity.
Well, if the millionth has finally gone it must be safe to post again now. But on that count issue:
Perhaps the counter was always a complete fake (the individual comment numbering had gone past a million long before they even started this!). Perhaps there's a considerable server delay on the counter's reporting. Or perhaps it was only counting comments for which the posting computer could be verified as being in the US - to prevent any non-US person (or anyone with their stealth options set too high) "winning".
Last counter contest did the same thing.
Did I get it,did I get it????
Where's this damn counter?
The one at the bottom stills says 33 million something.
And, someone said "It's done. Thank Toni".. What'd I do wrong now? :)
Toni
Somehow I feel like I just participated in an orgy and only one person got to orgasm.
And this made me late for work!
I couldn't see it before but now, on this page view, it's at the top-right of the page (in a special top bar above the advert bar) and (at time of posting) saying: "Official Comment Count: 1,000,012".
Damn! I overslept, and missed it by just 12.
OOOOOOOOOOOOhhhh hahahaha I found it. Up until now, it was not showing. My previous post went through with no problems and now I see it.
Toni
Shame the repeated posts happened. Silly server got over run.
Pretty serious about that international video party link up. Might even make the news in some places. Does anyone know if the guiness book of records has an entry for the one party been spread over the most amount of world area?
A web came in PZs party, one here in Germany, one in the UK..... thats a lot of ground. Anyone else want to have a simultaneous web came synced party somewhere?
come on people, it could be HUGE :)
It.
Is.
Finished....
@ 200,electricbarbarella,
//And, someone said "It's done. Thank Toni".. What'd I do wrong now?//
Its not you of course,but the football god,Luca Toni !!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Toni
Not bad, about 200 post in this thread in about an hour. PZ can't complain.
I didnt think the 1millionth post actually won anything. I think it is just a draw for everyone who entered.
Parties are great. A little far away though.
Almost there! Congratulations!
Vagina....
...oh hang on am I too late?!
Well, according to the Scienceblogs front page, the post was at 8:32 system time, which means that Bride of Shrek, at least, is in the running.
When do we find out who won?
yep
But I guess there is some caché to being the millionth commenter. Maybe more letters after your name.
*whistle
Gavin
The synched party sounds good but I need to get my web cam working with linux first.
What's that tune you're whistling, Rev? Sounds like "Look Out, Stagger Lee." That, or "Polly Wolly Molly."
Sorry - the August Molly offer has now expired. Thank you for your participation. Please try again next month. :)
One MILLION comments!
MU HU HA HA HA HA HA!
Sorry - the August Molly offer has now expired. Thank you for your participation. Please try again next month. :)
That's why I'm gunning for the
Rev. BigDumbChimp, Kot, 1000000C
So the Rev. wants to be the mollionth commenter, eh?
/subliminal fake-typo approach
I don't get up early enough to win stuff I guess. Congrats to the winner though.
DOH! It happen yet?
According to the URLs on the comments, this thread has gone from comments 1108033-1108626. Someone should find the actual comment-1000000. It was probably posted months ago.
Found it: comment-1000000: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/rolls_eyes_its_a_cracker_peo…
which is, ironically enough, a post counting up to 1000 comments on a cracker site.
Count me in!
Heh. I found #999999, but you beat me to #1000000, qbsmd. I had it narrowed down to around 12:22 on the 22nd of July, though.
I also find it amusing that this group of geeks takes matters into our own hands when it comes to verifying the millionth comment. Do we trust the counter? Hell, no! Not when there is evidence that it isn't legit. What other lines of evidence are there? Post URLs, at least; so using that, we get a comment nearly two months old. Are there any other sources we can use to embarass Seed's marketing brouhaha? We must have evidence!
Post count skeptics unite!
Jebus H. Cripes has confirmed to me through his glorious majesty that i am the official 1000000th poster.
Post count skeptics... I like that.
I trust the comment numbers more than the counter since, as people have noted, the counter seems to move more slowly than it should.
Someone who is a good enough java programmer could probably write something easily enough to automatically download and parse each page to count the comments. That is the only way to know for sure.
BTW, if anyone does that, I would be interested in the source code.
Hooray! Way to hang in there for the sluts Bride of Shrek! I hope you won. ;o)
Could they have excluded comments by the bloggers themselves from the count?
(Probably not, and this still wouldn't explain the slow counter, but...)
The counter ticks over around once a minute, but not exactly. I don't know if it is just a different number, or if there is some variance. If 1,000,000 was at 8:32, as they claim, and the counter is currently 1,000,171, that's 171 ticks for 197 minutes, by my count. That works out to a tick for about every 69 seconds. I wonder if the person who programmed it was trying to make a dirty joke.
Looks like I'm too late...
We are always punished on the west coast.
I'd make the trip from UK just to be there....I need a break.
How will we know you at the party?
ice
Does the 1,000,000 comment get a free beer? Or some used science equipment?
The millionth comment has already passed, but I just wanted to be on this thread anyway ;)
Rev. BigDumbChimp - If you're going to add a million shouldn't you at least rate Pooh Bah in there somewhere? Rev. BigDumbChimp KoT, Pooh Bah 100000000c
Poo bah huh. Do I get a big blue hat with horns?
Well, I'd vote for the Greg & PZ Excellent Party
Are you running? Can we skew a poll?
Rev., oh sure the horny hat! Not only that, but as I recall you get a parking space and the right to hold the floor anytime you wish to.
Shoot, I can't remember if there is also a gavel involved.
Let's do it.
*inserts obligatory comment*
I'm planning on crashing the party, complete with tentacles.
I enter for the glory of victory I know will be mine, no matter what the outcome of the contest.
my entry ;)