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aardvarchaeology | March 10, 2007Wednesday last I asked Aard's growing ranks of regular Dear Readers to say "Hey" and introduce themselves. And the response was great! Many, many thanks for all the appreciative comments.
My purpose in asking this was twofold: a) I wanted to get to know you guys better, b) I wanted to know how I could improve the blog. The first part of the plan worked fine: I am very honoured to have such a diverse and insightful readership! But the second part kind of backfired. In fact, it's a classic case of a poorly thought-through research design, and I should really be ashamed of myself. In fact, my…
clock | March 9, 2007Yes, today, PZ is 50 years old!
Archy, Grrrlscientist and myself are compiling linkfests today. Just make sure that you have the word "Myers" in your post (having just "PZ" messes up with some search engines - too short).
This year, Dan Rhoades is the first out of the box with a cool tentacled cartoon.
Richard Dawkins wrote a poem.
Grrrlscientist did a scientific study.
PZ himself acknowldeges his age.
Last year, I made this cephalopod collage (click to enlarge).
Greg Laden wrote a limerick.
John Wilkins wrote lyrics for a Broadway musical.
Sean Carrol gave PZ a... well, you'll have to see…
aardvarchaeology | March 8, 2007
I sometimes run appreciations of little-known blogs here. By no stretch of the word can Pharyngula be called little-read: it's one of the top-few-hundred blogs on the entire net. But today is P.Z. Myers's 50th birthday, and that's cause for rejoicing!
Dear Reader, let's say you happen not to know of PZ and Pharyngula. Then let me tell you that if you want to learn developmental biology and liberal U.S. politics from a witty godless polemicist with a squid fetish, then PZ's your man.
Happy first half century, PZ! May your second one be even better! Your living tissue is now measurably younger…
clock | March 8, 2007I'll have to sift through Neurophilosopher's long, extensive and growing lists of Natural History blogs and Neuroscience/Psychology blogs - I know there are some blogs there that are not yet on my blogroll and deserve to be.
aardvarchaeology | March 7, 2007The stats for returning readers have taken a healthy jump from about 35 daily in November through January to about 45 daily in recent weeks. I like that a lot! Dear Returning Reader, please take the time to comment on this post, say something about yourself and tell me what kind of blog entries you'd like to see more of here.
retrospectacle | March 7, 2007The time has come for blogroll updating! Yes, time to clean out the old links and put in some shiny new ones.
Want a link?
Leave it in the comments! (No promises, but I do promise to take a look!)
Forward to your bloggy friends. :)
clock | March 7, 2007Apparently, neither Anton nor Brian nor me can make it to the Chapel Hill/Carrboro meetup tonight - watch BlogTogether for announcements for the replacement date.
Also, get your graphic design juices flowing and submit your suggestion for the BlogTogether logo - there is a cool prize to be won.
Finally, next edition of the Tar Heel Tavern will be hosted by Scrutiny Hooligans, so send your entries promptly:
The Tarheel Tavern's 107th incarnation comes to life this weekend at Scrutiny Hooligans dressed in calculus, symbolism, and accounting.
In the year 107 c.e. that Titus died. Titus was a…
aardvarchaeology | March 6, 2007I've been blogging here for over two months now, and Aard is steadily working its way upp the Technorati ranking scale. But Google hasn't taken any notice yet: it still considers the authority of this site to be a 0 on a scale of 10. Meanwhile, my old hibernating blog appears to become more and more authoritative. It used to be a 4 back when I still blogged there. Now it's a 6!?
aardvarchaeology | March 6, 2007A burgeoning community of atheist bloggers has come into being since Mojoey published his Atheist Blogroll. The many blogs publishing that list has done a lot for Aardvarchaeology's Technorati ranking. I haven't got a blogroll, mainly because it saves me from having to add courtesy links all the time. But I try to spread the link love in other ways, such as doing feature entries on good underappreciated blogs. And so I decided to post the entire atheist blogroll under the fold. Random chance and purposeless existence bless ya, guys!
retrospectacle | March 5, 2007Seems that ScienceBlogs was down for about an hour or so......strange. This has been happening with some semi-regular frequency the past few months, which makes me wonder who we've pissed off this time. Anyway, the tech guys have informed us that there's a major upgrade in the pipeline which should nip this kind of thing in the bud, to quote Barney Fife.
aardvarchaeology | March 3, 2007
Here's another underappreciated, undermarketed and eminently readable blog within the ambit of Aardvarchaeology: Chris O'Brien's Northstate Science. For more archaeology and skepticism, read Chris! He's been at it for a year now, he's only seeing 60 hits a day, and by his own admission,
"I have done almost no advertising about the blog, either locally or via other websites - anyone who has discovered Northstate Science has done so either via word of mouth or through searches and links to my posts (hell, most of my relatives, including my mother, don't know I actually have a blog!)"
C'mon…
clock | March 2, 2007ConvergeSouth website and blog went live today. You bet I'll be going - this is a Not-To-Miss annual event in Greensboro. Just check the program!
clock | March 1, 20072008 Science Blogging Conference
Not to be bragging, but the '07 Science Blogging Conference was a great success, and most attendees voiced their approval of Chapel Hill as a permanent venue for the event, so Anton and I are starting early in planning for the next one.
There are rumors of a mid-summer equivalent event to be held on the West Coast (Seattle or somewhere there) which would be great - more the merrier - but we will also try to find some way to help a few West-Coasters make their way to North Carolina in winter as well.
We pored over all of your feedback forms and read all the…
aardvarchaeology | February 25, 2007Dear Reader, I like to publish good archaeological pix. If you have taken a really good photograph, drawn a find or done a nice plan or section that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, then feel free to email it to me, along with information about the subject and how you'd like it to be credited.
aardvarchaeology | February 25, 2007Dear Reader, you no doubt have a skewed and seasick perspective on Stockholm, Sweden, from too much of my blogging. What you need is a blog written from Stockholm by a humorous, skeptical Irishman.
This genre is of course quite the jungle, with more blogs than anyone can reasonably attempt to evaluate. But take it from me: the one you want to read is Paddy K's Swedish Extravaganza. Another really good blogger who just needs to learn to illustrate and market his writing.
aardvarchaeology | February 23, 2007I would recommend Jason Fox's blog simply for the weight of its name: Hominin Dental Anthropology. That is so heavy metal. But it's also tagged "atheism, Teeth, Anthropology, bones, Paleoanthropology, dentition, bioarchaeology, osteology, paleopathology" on Technorati. And it's a readable mix of these subjects along with linguistics and more whimsical and personal pieces. So check him out and comment away! The only things Jason seems not to have learned yet is to use pics and to market his blog. Jason, I want to see your skinny ass on the next Four Stone Hearth. And I want you to host one…
clock | February 21, 2007I'm back and ready to go to bed. After a couple of days of being sick as a dog (hence hit-and-run blogging) I managed to get myself up for tonight's event which was great fun, but now I am drained, so instead of trying to write a long-winded account of the evening myself, I'll ask you to go and get all the information - what it was all about, who was there, how good the food was (yummy!) on BlogTogether.
retrospectacle | February 21, 2007
All you geekly girls out there, send in your most nerdtastic pictures and rock this contest .
Deadline is 2-28-07.