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pharyngula | June 27, 2006Then I guess I need to start typing faster. World o' Crap has a book out now. You know you want it: Better Living Through Bad Movies(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll).
pharyngula | June 26, 2006What is this, a few journalists have discovered blogs for the first time and have decided they just don't like 'em? This fellow Zengerle seems to see them as a threat to the Republic, and now some guy named Quin Hillyer at the American Spectator weighs in, with some devastating complaints.
He is shocked at the funny names. "What the heck, for instance, is 'Echidne of the Snakes' or 'Nyarlathotep's Miscellany'?" Whoa. Burn. I'm sure glad I didn't pick a weird name for my blog.
He doesn't get Fafblog. He seems to think it's about stilted writing, rather than some of the sharpest mockery of the…
pharyngula | June 24, 2006If you aren't up on the latest blogging scandals du jour, just ignore this.
I'm not on the "Townhouse" email list…in fact, I never even heard of it before.
I only read the Daily Kos for DarkSyde. I think Markos is an inconsequential part of the community there.
Markos has never told me what to do, and if he did, I'd ignore him.
I went to YearlyKos, and the A-listers bored me…but I thought the community was wonderful.
I think that coordinating responses by email is smart and practical, and that the righty nutcases who think it is cheating are just trying to undermine any hint of organization…
pharyngula | June 16, 2006We have received most excellent news from Seed: notice that challenge bar to the left, where I (and many other science bloggers) are asking you to donate to public education? We're doing great—my challenge has gathered over a thousand dollars so far, all to help out teachers and schoolkids—but now Seed has announced that they will match the total donations, up to $10,000. Double your money!
I've set a goal of raising $2000 for teachers, but I've got a dozen projects listed, and they're going to need more than that if all are to be fully funded. If I hit the goal, don't stop—you can keep…
pharyngula | June 11, 2006Chris Clark wants to help send Lauren formerly of Feministe off to the BlogHer conference. That sounds like a good idea to me: contribute to the Ship Lauren to San Jose Fund. It's a good cause.
pharyngula | June 10, 2006Is anyone else getting flooded with email spam? More than the usual, that is…I'm getting 5-10 thousand heavily randomized and seeming pointless email messages an hour right now. I've tweaked my filters a bit to get rid of most of it, but some still leaks through, and it's rather disturbing to see the numbers on the junk mail folder ticking upwards at such a rate.
pharyngula | June 9, 2006As you watch the time fade away, sit back and enjoy it and start mentally rewriting your talk. I had it pared down to "I'll post it on the web later, bye!"
Well, it really wasn't that bad. My YearlyKos panel on science consisted of me, Wendy Northcutt, Chris Mooney, and that big guy most people have heard of, Wes Clark. Clark got up there with a few brief notes and spoke extemporaneously, eating up 40 minutes of our hour and a quarter. It was good to hear a politician speak out forcefully for science and the separation of church and state, so that's what counts. He also packed the room for us…
pharyngula | June 9, 2006Hey, everyone! The new ScienceBlogs main page has been launched, and the Seed nerd-kings have added a whole new crop of blogs here. Take a browse, you might discover some new favorites.
pharyngula | June 6, 2006The new Seed science bloggers continue to trickle in, and the latest is Evolving Thoughts. Go on over and say howdy.
pharyngula | June 6, 2006
Today is 6/6/06, that ominous numerological signifier of the fundies, much beloved by conspiracy theorists, and full of interesting numerical properties (but is there ever such a thing as an uninteresting number?). It's also the date that Ann Coulter's new book, Godless, is being released.
Everyone is missing the most portentous aspect of the number, though…
It also happens to be Pharyngula's 3rd Anniversary. Yay! Happy blogday!
Yeah, now the secret's out. I am the anti-christ. Don't panic, though—the Tribulation doesn't start until the sitemeter count hits 6,666,666, and I'm over a half…
pharyngula | June 5, 2006Hey, this sounds familiar…so I thought I'd send some favorable referrals back Jinwicked's way.
pharyngula | May 28, 2006If you're getting tired of the Yearly Kos news, have no fear, it'll all be over in two weeks. If not, Matt Bai has an article on it in the NY Times. It's The Future!
pharyngula | May 26, 2006It's been a while, but here's the noise I've been listening to for the last half hour:
Lord Death's Counting Song
Shoko Asahara
Wanna get next to you
Rose Royce
Stranger Inside
Boondogs
James Bond Theme
Moby
Drunken Lullabies
Flogging Molly
Laenge siden (Long Ago)
Sorten Muld
Macary
Mamani keita & Marc Minelli
Bobby Hughes Combination - Cli
Stephane Pompougnac
Skyline
California Guitar Trio
Bride in Cold Tears
Tangerine Dream
pharyngula | May 25, 2006Some guy has been nattering on for three years without delivering either the promised puppies or stories, and he thinks he deserves a roast? Notice how I am pointedly ignoring him.
pharyngula | May 6, 2006Our Seed Overlords have asked a question (our answering is entirely voluntary, if you were wondering, and we're only answering because it is an interesting question): "if you could cause one invention from the last hundred years never to have been made at all, which would it be, and why?"
Several of my colleagues here have coughed up answers—Adventures in Ethics and Science (with a particularly appropriate entry),
Afarensis,
Evolgen,
Living the Scientific Life, and
Stranger Fruit—but I'm going to be a little bit contrary and question the question.
My answer is "none."
I don't see most of…
pharyngula | May 5, 2006Yarrgh, but I hate that thing—that animated collection of whirling poop-flecks that the History Channel has inflicted on us with that ad on the right. It's supposed to only show up every 12 hours, and it's supposed to be disabled on browsers where it causes conflicts (like Safari, where it disables every link it spins over and also shuts down my key commands), but it just keeps coming.
We're stuck with it for a while—commitments were made—but they're not supposed to ever put up anything that intrusive again.
pharyngula | May 1, 2006Hey, I'm back home again, and crawling through my mail. While I'm simultaneously trying to recover from a long, long drive, skim through a mountain of mail, and get caught up on essential grading (there are days I'm glad I have three brains), read Circus of the Spineless #8. I will be back in the blogging business sometime soon.
pharyngula | April 28, 2006My schedule is knocked all to heck today—there was some mess of an accident on I94 that cost me an extra hour and a half coming into the cities, and the cops in the U district sent me wondering all over the place in order to maximize congestion and protect some sporting event—so I'm not sure what I'll be doing this evening now. I'm killing time in a coffeeshop, waiting for #1 Son to complete this interview thing, and then I'll do something. I guess.
Oh, well. Here's the weekly noise.
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner
Warren Zevon
Working for the Man
PJ Harvey
The View
Modest Mouse
Haiti
The…
pharyngula | April 27, 2006My life isn't easing up just yet as we wend our way to the imminent end of the term. I'm going to be flitting about over the next few days.
I'm chauffeuring #1 son to a job interview in Minneapolis today, and then returning him home to St Cloud again sometime this evening. I'm planning to be in St Cloud in time for a painful event: Kent Hovind is speaking there.
Date :April 28, 2006
Time :7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Title:Dr. Kent Hovind (Dr. Dino) -- Creation v. Evolu.
Description:Dr. Kent Hovind or the more popularly known Dr. Dino, is one of the most requested speakers on the Creation and Evolution…