Open Thread

Spot Hugh Laurie in the comments.
Get an eyeful in the comments.
Take a moment and get caught up in these tangles of links: Friday Ark #108 Carnival of Education #88 Carnival of the Liberals #23 Skeptics' Circle #45 Philosophia Naturalis #2 Otherwise, chat among yourselves (hmmm…seems to be a lot of these open threads around here lately. Don't worry, next week I'll tell you all to shut up, it's my turn.)
Frolic in the comments. Put those hankies down!
Come in from the cold and say something.
Get cosmic in the comments.
I'm wandering off in the UK, and I have no idea how much net accessibility I'll have…so I'll just set up an open thread and let you all chat away. If I can, I'll try to put up travel photos now and then.
Here are a few carnival announcements, but mainly what I've got is announcements of impending carnivals—there's going to be a bunch coming out next week, I guess. Friday Ark #107 Carnival of Education #87 Carnival of the Liberals wants your links! Deadline is next Tuesday. Tangled Bank needs more links! Deadline is next Tuesday. Skeptics' Circle seeks submissions! Deadline is early next Wednesday. Discuss the imminent dissolution of the blogosphere into collections of links linking to other collections of links, which will lead either to irrelevance and destruction, or reach a…
A couple of science carnivals will liven up your Sunday evening: Bio::Blogs #4 The Synapse 1(8)
We've harvested a fine collection of links this week: Circus of the Spineless #25 (there's a tattoo parlor I want to visit!) I and the Bird #33 Carnival of Education #86 Skeptics' Circle #44 Friday Ark #106 Carnival of the Liberals #22 Comment on whatever you will!
Hey! Go read these! You can talk about anything you want in the comments! Animalcules #2 Friday Ark #105 Carnival of Education #85 Next week's Tangled Bank will be hosted at OK so I'm not really a cowboy. Send your links directly to indiancowboysblog-at-gmail.com, or to host@tangledbank.net, or to me. Any new volunteers to host? The next open slots are available in February and later.
A few carnivals have popped up: Carnival of Education #84 Skeptics' Circle #43 I & the Bird #32 Carnival of the Liberals #21 Also, Mendel's Garden #6 is looking for submissions — it will be hosted at The Voltage Gate tomorrow!
Perusable blogaliciousness for your Friday morning: Carnival of Education Friday Ark #103 Mendel's Garden #5 The Hairy Museum of Natural History has put out a call for submissions to the Tangled Bank, with an early deadline. If you want a shot at maybe seeing your link with a custom illustration, send it in by Sunday evening. He'll try to accept stuff up through Tuesday, but make life easy on the guy, OK?
We have another bumper crop of carnivals this week: Skeptics' Circle #42 Festival of the Trees #3 I and the Bird #31 Bio::Blogs #3 Circus of the Spineless #12 Carnival of the Liberals #20 Friday Ark #102
Here's a little Friday reading: Friday Ark #101 Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans #4 Carnival of Education #81 Also don't forget to send in those links for Tangled Bank #61 to pzmyers@pharyngula.org, host@tangledbank.net, or Epigenetics News.
Let's start the week with another open thread, and a few carnivals. The Synapse 1(4) Carnival of the Godless #46
What is this, Mardi Gras? It's carnivals all over the place today. I and the Bird #29 Carnival of Education #78 Carnival of the Liberals #18 Carnival of Feminists #20 Skeptics' Circle #40 Friday Ark #98
One entry in the carnival roundup for today: Bio :: Blogs #2 Otherwise, I'm running about in Minneapolis, paying another visit to the airport and going to a meeting at UMTC, so talk among yourselves. I'll be back later.
The carnivals du jour: Circus of the Spineless XI Encephalon #3 Again, this is also an open thread. I got a comment on the last one that more open threads are needed. Is that true? I don't need to go to Atrios-level open-threadery, of course, but if you'd like these a little more often, let me know.
Carnival of Socialism #7 Carnival of Education #77 Friday Ark #97 Don't forget—there's another Tangled Bank coming up on Wednesday, 2 August, at Science and Reason, so mail those links to Charles Daney, host@tangledbank.net, or me.