Important reminder!

Looks like Eric is gonna do way better than his dad. Great...

Keeps giving me this:

Creation Minute is an exciting series hosted by Eric Hovind that explores the creation worldview using cutting-edge visual effects and digital technology. Each episode challenges the evolution theory and gives evidence of the Bible's historical and scientific accuracy.

Click on what? All I saw was nonsense. Not even a poll with both Safari and Firefox. Come on PZ, you can do better than that...

Done.

Cheers,
Ray

i don't get it... when i "click here to help... " does that count as a click for you or do i have to enter your url to count? please advice

Oooh, Eric Hovind's got a "simulation room". It's like a holodeck, but full of stars.

It will not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer!

So, if you win the iPod, are you going to keep the Creation "Science" videos preloaded on it? Just asking.

Is there any way to tell how well you are doing? Is there any way to check and see if our clicking has done anything? I have been clicking the link but I can't tell if anything is being accomplished.

You've got no idea how much it pains me to go over there and see that morons face staring back at me...but I do because it would be a truly beautiful thing for him to have to pony up an iPod to you.

I'd pay good money to see the look on his face when he tallies up his counts and sees who wins.

Two thoughts; for one, while it says the heavens are God's throne, it says the Earth is his footstool. So he has to be dwarfed by Jupiter if he's proportioned in such a way that would make the Earth the size of a footstool to him...

For two, having your god call your world his footstool says something definitive about Christianity. And further supports my theory that one of the core tenants of Christianity is a Victim Complex.

I don't understand what I'm supposed to do there.

It's simple. Hovind is counting click-throughs to his site full pathetic creationist nonsense. When you click on the "here" in "click here" in my post, it takes you to his inanity AND gives me one more vote in the contest.

Done and done, PZ.

Does anyone know if Hovind is counting each independent click, or each visitor? Because I'm all for setting up an automator to click on that link at a somewhat steady rate for a few hours... or days.

But then again, I wouldn't want PZ to get disqualified because he got 120 million clicks, you know? Any ideas?

That's funny, there's no way for the 'flock' to detect if he decides to cheat and award it to a crony or whatever.

Quel surprise!

I'd pay good money to see the look on his face when he tallies up his counts and sees who wins.

And then quickly denies it.

Diabolical!

Good thing I had on my barn boots...that's some deep crap on that website.

Good thing I had on my barn boots...that's some deep crap on that website.

I would have thought full waders up to the stomach would have been more appropriate.

I wonder if this crontab entry would do, or would that not trigger javascript thingies to count? (change path to proper location of curl, obviously)

1 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/curl "http://www.creationminute.com/index.php?c=episode&m=index&utm_source=pr…" 1>>/dev/null 2>&1

Maybe a "start [url]" entry in the Windows scheduled task thingy?

They are most likely counting hits using the HTTP Referer (yes, it's spelled wrong in the protocol) header. A web browser only send this when you click on a link, which is why all you have to do is click there.

Any automated task would have to send that header. But that would probably also disqualify PZ since it's ddisingenuous.

PZ, I think you should remind your readers that clicking on the link from a feed reader is not going to count, just to make it clear. We need to follow the open it *from your site*. At least I'm quite sure that the HTTP Referrer header will not point to your site when follow the creationist link from a feed reader.

PZ, I think you should remind your readers that clicking on the link from a feed reader is not going to count, just to make it clear.

Good point. It does indeed send the url of google reader when you click on it from there. You'll have to load the page then click the link.

But that would probably also disqualify PZ since it's ddisingenuous.

LOL.. his dad being in jail for fraud, I don't think a little disingeneousness matters :)

LOL.. his dad being in jail for fraud, I don't think a little disingeneousness matters :)

We shouldn't stoop to their level. The creationists love to use automated "vote-bots" on sites like Youtube. We shouldn't have to resort to those tactics.

They are most likely counting hits using the HTTP Referer (yes, it's spelled wrong in the protocol) header. A web browser only send this when you click on a link, which is why all you have to do is click there.

Any automated task would have to send that header. But that would probably also disqualify PZ since it's ddisingenuous.

This line of perl should do nicely:

perl -e 'while(true) { `curl "http://www.creationminute.com/index.php?c=episode&m=index&utm_source=pr…" 1>>/dev/null 2>&1` }'

If these guys have any brains, they'll toss out any duplicate IPs (pretty big IF, I know...), so any folks who are trying to votebomb might want to try anonymizing their IPs.

On a completely unrelated note, this link is not about pie. http://is.gd/uKvc

If you get to win the i-pod, do we all get a share in it?

so any folks who are trying to votebomb might want to try anonymizing their IPs.

Tor For The Win!!!

God must have very small feet.

I too would like to know what you're going to do with the creation videos preloaded on your iPod.

I've clicked through twice now. Once from home and once from work.

I watched the video this time (last time I couldn't get it to load.) Like others, my reaction was 'huh?'

So, it must be that atheists doubt God because they just don't realize how big the universe really is! Atheists think it's small and tiny, centered around man, and the earth is one of the biggest things in it. But Christians have figured out that no, thank goodness it's not. It's really, really huge.

And created by a God, who centers everything around mankind, and the individual's exciting choice about whether to be God's friend, or not. A giant stage for a teeny tiny, itsy bitsy cosmic drama.

If there was nothing much in the universe except the earth, and sun, stars, and planets circled around it, then that would count against the existence of God. Right.

<here> clicked again.

I was joining their facebook page as a Fan and had some nice conversations with those misled folks.
If you want to know how the hardcore of creationism believe looks like, join their facebook page.

You will find all the tired, old arguments against evolution which have been refuted over and over again.

Just out of interest, might Hovind be getting paid by his advertisers for each hit on his site? So might automated voting in fact make more money for him than the cost of an iPod?

Sorry!

I completely forgot!

So that's two clicks lost over the weekend.

:goes to autopharyngulatein contrition:

iClicked(tm)

I took one look at the website and got the screaming heebiejeebies though...