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The Big Kick-Off

By drorzel on June 9, 2006.

A big event took place at noon Eastern time today. That's right, the soccer World Cup has started, and as I type this, Germany leads Costa Rica 2-1.

Oh, yeah, and because the science nerds need something to do while the sports fans are all obsessing over soccer, the new, improved ScienceBlogs front page launched, along with a whole host of new blogs joining the ScienceBlogs family. They're still a little light on physicists, with Dynamics of Cats being the only other physics type, but the drive to absorb all halfway decent science-themed blogs out there continues.

Should be plenty of stuff for you all to read, if you're looking for reading material. Me, I plan to carry my grades over to the Registrar, and then find a tv and a Spanish-language channel and watch some soccer.

(Comments and complaints about the new front page are welcome in the comments, by the way, and will be passed on to the appropriate authorities. The servers are probably getting hit pretty hard at the moment, so cut them a little slack...)

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The new front page is kind of busy, but they're trying to do a hard task, namely to aggregate together forty-odd blogs in a way that presents a reasonable selection of material to a new reader.

I don't know how much I'll end up using it (I mostly read blogs via RSS these days, and ScienceBlogs is no exception), but it's there. And if you used the old front page, it's still there, one click down:

http://scienceblogs.com/channel/24-hours/

I liked the old layout better, but that page will work for me. Thanks for the link!