Open Thread
pzminion | August 7, 2008MAJeff bringing you some 'pod porn, culinary style.
That's the fried calamari at one of my favorite restaurants, The Daily Catch in Boston's North End.
A few weeks ago, the New York Times, had an article on the return of the Jersey Tomato. Now, I've never had a "Jersey Tomato" so I'll have to take the word of folks from there that it's really tasty. I wouldn't mind being one of the tasters they've got in the article, though. Coming from the rural Midwest, I'm pretty familiar with good produce.
I love the summer, and desperately miss my parents' garden during this season. A few weeks ago,…
pharyngula | July 20, 2008Here's some reading material for your Sunday afternoon.
The Freethinker Sunday Sermonette is amusing today.
The Hourglass, a new carnival on the biology of aging.
I and the Bird #79
Humanist Symposium #22
Carnival of the Liberals #69
Carnival of the Godless #96
Friday Ark #200
The Giants' Shoulders #1
The next Tangled Bank will be at Blue Collar Scientist on Wednesday. Send links now!
I'm hosting the next Carnival of the Elitist Bastards on 26 July, and the submissions are barging in to my mailbox and demanding my attention…but I need more. I want a legion of arrogant SOBs…
pharyngula | July 17, 2008OK, people, you've got to stop this. These comment threads keep filling up with noise — I'm closing one bloated thread and starting this one, if you feel you must.
Just a suggestion: if you are an outraged Catholic who is here to tell us a) you're very upset, b) the cracker is very, very important to you, or c) that you'll pray for us all, please, don't bother. We've heard it a few thousand times already, it wasn't at all persuasive the first time, and we're just getting more and more exasperated at your obtuse lack of originality. Go to church, instead.
pharyngula | July 16, 2008This has been a fun and informative meeting here in Atlanta — I also think my talk yesterday went well — but it has had one downside: we broke the internet. Practically everyone here has a laptop or two, and the hotel network has been rendered nearly useless in a major net traffic jam. Who would have thought that attending a computer science meeting would be like being cast away on a desert island? Oh, well, having the web reduced to a slow trickle is a kind of vacation, anyway.
That's about to end, though. I'm getting ready to run off and catch a plane back to Yankee-land, where the…
pharyngula | July 6, 2008Read.
The Four Stone Hearth
Carnival of the Liberals #68
Friday Ark #198
Freethinker Sunday Sermonette (Irony that must be seen to be believed!)
Carnival of the Godless #95
Greg Laden will be hosting the next Tangled Bank on 9 July. Submit now!
Speak:
pharyngula | July 4, 2008I'm about to head off to get coffee and attend this conference and give my own talk, and then zoom, right after the talk I have to head off to the airport and fly back home. I'll be back this evening, but until then, you'll all have to entertain yourselves in the comments…which you all seem very good at, anyway.
Just to get you started: Pat Condell.
Maybe one of the fundagelical creobots haunting Pharyngula right now will find something to rave about in that.
pharyngula | June 30, 2008I have been very, very bad. I have been neglecting my obligations as a member of the blogosphere to share links to interesting stuff, all because I've been busy with travel and work. I missed the Carnival of the Liberals, the Accretionary Wedge, I and the Bird, the Carnival of Space, and even the Carnival of the Godless. I am wicked, the worthless scum of the earth, a footling twallop who deserves your scorn and needs to be demoted.
But I'm trying to catch up! I promise I'll do better!
I also overlooked Revere's Sunday Sermonette, which I usually catch: the latest is a tribute to George…
tlambert | May 28, 2008Since Tilo Reber's comments always seem to take discussion off topic, all further comments from Tilo should be posted to this thread as well as any replies to any comment by Tilo.
pharyngula | May 25, 2008We need an open thread! Here are a few carnivals to prime the pump.
Humanist Symposium #19
I and the Bird #75
The Molecular and Cell Biology Carnival #2
Skeptics' Circle #87
Carnival of the Liberals #65
Friday Ark #192
pharyngula | May 4, 2008By now, many of you have probably seen the latest super-hero summer blockbuster, so the time is right for opening up a discussion.
I thought it was excellent and loads of fun, although the irony did not escape me that it was about a conscienceless weapons merchant who has an epiphany about the tragic consequences of his industry, and decides to end his contribution to the bloodshed…so he goes home to build a new, super-powerful personal weapons system that allows him to beat up bad guys. Whatever you do, don't think deeply about this movie! It's just some good acting, excellent special…
pharyngula | April 24, 2008Let's catch up with the carnivals:
I and the Bird #73
Carnival of the Fraudless
Carnival of the Liberals #63
Skeptics' Circle #85
We've got a new Tangled Bank at Dammit Jim! next Wednesday — send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net.
Libra: There's a choice to be made. You can live fast and hard in the hands of the coke dealer, or you can have the sedate life with regular maintenance, dealing with nothing harder than the occasional phosphate salt. The difference is as simple as a chain with a lock.
pharyngula | April 12, 2008
The newest Tangled Bank will be at rENNISance woman on Wednesday, so send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net soon. Meanwhile, you could read these other carnivals:
Humanist Symposium #17
Circus of the Spineless
I and the Bird #72
Skeptics' Circle #84
Friday Ark #186
pharyngula | April 12, 2008Everyone was so pleased with getting a thread over 2000 comments, but I'm sorry — it's so huge it's causing server problems on ScienceBlogs. I'm closing comments there; if you really must continue, do it here.