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Program Announcement: I'm Moving

mikethemadbiologist — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:03:48 +0000

Program Announcement: I'm Moving

I've dropped some hints in the past that my relationship with ScienceBlogs would be...altered.

Well, I've decided to leave. Mostly, it had to do with the issue of pseudonymity, although I'm very excited to hang out my own shingle once again. I don't want to rehash the issue of pseudonymity, since others have done that quite well, but revealing the Mad Biologist's Top Sekrit identity just wasn't in the cards.

I want to make something clear. ScienceBlogs/NatGeo really did try to keep me. For some crazy reason, they seem to like the writing--I won't get into the details, but that really does seem to be the case. My impression is that they are not trying to 'hollow out' ScienceBlogs (or, at least, they weren't trying to 'hollow out' me). I understand why a corporation like National Geographic wouldn't want to have pseudonymous writers, even though it's not compatible with how I want to play it.

OK, so what comes next? Well, I've opened my new digs at http://mikethemadbiologist.com. I might be crossposting here for a bit to close out some contractual obligations, but that's the new home of the Mad Biologist. And, of course, to find out about the latest doings, you can subscribe to my twitter feed.

Finally, I want to thank the many people who have worked at ScienceBlogs. It all started with Katherine Sharpe who recruited me. I remember my first conversation with her, and when she invited me, I asked her, "Are you sure you want me? You have read my blog, right?" Since that time, no one at ScienceBlogs ever told me what to write, or ruled anything off limits (and, at times, I'm certain it showed...). It was truly a wonderful concept: invite scientists--working scientists trained in data analysis and experimentation--to write about, well, anything and everything. Adam Bly really wasn't far off the mark with the 'science is culture' motto. It was an exciting and innovative thing while it lasted.

I am very grateful for this opportunity.

Anyway, enough of the maudlin stuff. Hopefully, I'll be seeing you around.

mikethemadbiologist Thu, 09/01/2011 - 03:03

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I'm so sorry you are departing, although, of course, it is understandable, given the new parameters. I think yours was one of the best blogs on the site - I'm not at all surprised that they wanted to keep you!

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It was a good run. Looking forward to the makeover.

Sorry to see you go! But I'm glad you'll still be blogging.

You're leaving!?!?! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Oh wait... (changes feed settings) ... Are you sure? You're right here in the same spot.

Whew, though I was going crazy there for a minute!

Damn.

... aaaaand bookmark updated.

You'll be missed around here, Mike. Sad to see you go but wishing you well at your new home!

I understand the need/desire for pseudonyms.

I kinda understand NatGeo's policy.

I totally understand your decision to pack up and move somewhere else.

Doesn't mean I'm happy about all this shuffling.

Just subscribed to RSS feed at new site. See you there.

See you at the new place.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

A few links updated, reader, and done. NatGeo's loss.

Will be following you at your new place. Best of luck man.

You're not taking your painting with you?
Can I have it after you leave?

Links duly updated.

RSS feed updated. looking forward to continuing to read your blog.

don't even need to bookmark it - i can actually remember mikethemadbiologist.com! call me old-fashioned, but much as i like having the computer remember important things for me, i still like to have the most important ones readily retrievable from inside my head.

Sad to see you go but wishing you well at your new home!

Good luck!
And I'd like to take this moment to point out that you got mentioned on the newest Skeptic's Guide to the Universe!

Oh wait... (changes feed settings) ... Are you sure? You're right here in the same spot.

Whew, though I was going crazy there for a minute!

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Serious Programming Note: We'll Probably Be Moving

mikethemadbiologist — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:50:39 +0000

Serious Programming Note: We'll Probably Be Moving

As some of you might have heard, National Geographic has decided that pseudonymous writers (other than Mark Twain) aren't going to be part of their online presence. I usually don't discuss ScienceBlogs inside baseball stuff, but I'm not getting any response from them (I've received emails telling me how much they want to talk to me, followed by no response). The odds are really, really good I won't be here for much longer, but for now, I'll still be posting here, if for no other reason than my contract requires a certain number of posts per week.

Once that's sorted out, unless I can be convinced to expose myself (so to speak), I'll be moving (already set up a site 'n everything!).

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We'll follow wherever you go. Couldn't care less about blog collectives. It's the individual contributors that matter.

What he said

I get here by via your links on twitter, I don't much care where your blog lives.

We're just a minor RSS feed update from tracking your new home address, wherever that winds up being. And of course Twitter.

You listening, SB? The room is about to start echoing...

this is a case where 1 and 2 make 5. love this blog, read it daily, frequently post portions of it to my Facebook wall. I don't care where it lives, just that it lives.

I hope you stay, one way or another.

Maybe you could tell them that you were born on the day some famous comet passed by the earth, and plan to go out with it too.

Thank you all for the kind words. If I'm contacted by the powers that be, I'll know more.

I'm following you too. Keep it coming, Mike.

Aaaaagh! Too many bookmarks! First Afarenis and John Wilkins, then Ed and PZ, and now you. Who's next? Orac? Why not join Ed, PZ, Cuttlefish et al. on FtB, and blog anonymously to your hearts content?

Yup, you definitely won't lose this regular reader.

Will happily update my RSS in that case.

It is hardly a secret that part of the employment process is to Google applicants and read through their Facebook accounts etc. (I've anecdotally heard some require you to give access). Given that there's a quite legitimate reason to want anonymity. Unless you're independently wealthy are absolutely sure about your employment future, there is no other sane course of action. One does not want to be silently rejected simple because (s)he called Obama, Perry, whoever, a weasel.

In the mean time, keep up the good work.

i don't read you for your RL name, i read you for the thought-provoking link farms. i'll keep reading them wherever your RSS feed may move to.

hint for firefox users: i use the "sage" plug-in. it's an RSS feed tracker and reader that works in a sidebar, sort of like the history panel. it may not be the best RSS reader out there, but it's darn handy and works well enough.

If NG is so concerned with authenticity, maybe they should investigate why photographers for their magazine are now using artificial techniques such as color saturation to tweak their photos.

Come on over to the dark side. It's lovely over here.

Just give us your new URL. We're with you. As far as we are concerned, you are Mike.

BTW - Did we ever say thanks for running such a great blog?

It'll be their loss. Just give us the new address, and we'll be there.

(I find it interesting that there seems to be big anti-pseudonym push at the moment, with G+, NG, and perhaps others. It does not make me happy.)

This is very upsetting, this whole "real name" business. I'm a layperson interested in all sorts of science topics, so I like this collection of blogs. I'm not always interested in your post of the day but there's always something I'm interested in posted by someone else. If all the scientists scatter to their own domains, I won't follow and I'll be poorer intellectually. Sniff.

Paul Krugman Is Very Shrill

mikethemadbiologist — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:01:00 +0000

Paul Krugman Is Very Shrill

As a fellow card-carrying member of the Ancient, Holy and High Hermeneutic Order of the Shrill, I mean that as a compliment:

There aren't many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief -- of the black-humor variety -- in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.

A number of commentators seem shocked at how unreasonable Republicans are being. "Has the G.O.P. gone insane?" they ask.

Why, yes, it has. But this isn't something that just happened, it's the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades. Anyone surprised by the extremism and irresponsibility now on display either hasn't been paying attention, or has been deliberately turning a blind eye.

And may I say to those suddenly agonizing over the mental health of one of our two major parties: People like you bear some responsibility for that party's current state.

Admittedly, this is nothing Comrade Driftglass hasn't been preaching since he started. Still nice to see though.

Anyway, this also gives me an excuse to resurrect one of posts that Blogger EATED:

Mike the Mad Biologist: What Was Richard Cohen Thinking?: Richard Cohen's column is... mind boggling:
But if you told me, as some have been implying, that Bush is a racist or that he doesn't care about black people, I would not only say that you're wrong but add, "Not the George Bush I know." Of course, I don't know George Bush personally. But in his first presidential campaign, I traveled with him and tried, as he might say, to look into his heart. Conveniently enough, he sometimes wears it on his sleeve -- never more so, as I discovered, than when he talks about poor kids and racial and ethnic minorities. His feelings for them -- especially for poor kids -- are genuine. This is what I believed then and this -- his incompetent performance regarding Hurricane Katrina notwithstanding -- is what I believe now....

But Bush is not cut from that cloth. He is a contemporary Republican, a person of another generation who, you may have noticed, has a black woman as secretary of state and had a black man before her. Under him, the GOP began an outreach to black Americans, and unless the Democrats wake up it will ultimately succeed. As Karl Rove well knows, all he has to do is pick up a small percentage of the black vote and he ends the current 50-50 electoral split. Bush, who won an impressive 27 percent of the black vote in his reelection bid for Texas governor, could have been the man to do this.

Sounds pretty reasonable, until you start, erm, thinking. Nevermind the 'some of my best Cabinet members are black' crap, has Cohen forgotten what Bush did to win the Republican primary in South Carolina? For those keeping score at home, Bush and his sociopathic minions smeared John McCain by claiming that McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter was his illegitimate black child. Then, of course, Bush also made the mandatory Republican pit stop at segregationist Bob Jones University. I would be really interested in hearing a defense of race baiting in the pursuit of political power.

[crickets...silence...sun rises...sun sets]

There is none. The only reason Bush has not used race baiting is because he hasn't had to. Until Katrina, Bush could play the "if you're against repeal of the estate tax, you're for the terrorists" card. Rest assured, if it's politically expedient, he will play the race card.... It's not as if it would be out of character for him. Like all aristocrats who possess a strong sense of personal perogative, Bush will do whatever it takes to maintain power. Does that mean I think he constitutively hates black people? No, he's an equal opportunity sociopath.

Fun times, those were....

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I HAZ LINKROT?!? On the Etiquette of Internet Citations

mikethemadbiologist — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:57:49 +0000

I HAZ LINKROT?!? On the Etiquette of Internet Citations

I'm a big fan of Brad DeLong's blog even when I don't agree with him. But one of the things that's bothered me is when he reprints posts in full. For bloggers, professional or amateur, links are currency. Reprinting the post in full means people won't be inclined to click through to your site. When asked about this, DeLong had an interesting answer:

The answer is simple: Linkrot.

Go, say, to a webpage of mine from the first half of the 2000s at random... Let's pick one: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/001202.html.

See how many of the links I include lead to "404 not found."

In this case, it is both of them. Both http://www.dynamist.com/scene/may20.html and http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/march0303.html are now dead.

Would you bet that the Washington Post will keep Ezra's posts up and freely available in a decade? Or even five years?

If I want things I write to be readable in a decade, I need to quote extensively now.

So I went through some of my 2006 posts. Of the links that didn't link to my blog, about twenty percent were dead. So DeLong has a point. On the other hand, I've always argued that the best way to gain more readers is to convince widely-read bloggers to give you good links, so I'm not sure what to make of DeLong's policy.

I'm not in it for the money (in a really good month I cover my cell phone and internet connection, and maybe have a pizza thrown in). But for other bloggers, it really does matter. Hell, even if you're an amateur, you still want traffic at your site.

Anyway, discuss.

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Use technology! Let's say you want to quote, oh, let's pick on Driftglass this time.

1. Go to the offending blog post[1] and

2. use one of those nifty save-this-page-as-PDF tools that your web browser can provide.

3. Add this cumbersome-to-view PDF (or jpeg, whatever) image to your own post and you're halfway there.

4. Quote and complain to your heart's content, knowing that the full song is available, either at Driftglass' pad or, if that has rotted away, via the PDF attachment to your blog post.

[1] http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-our-next-warmaybe.html

It's partly a technical problem and could be fixed by having the blog software save the text block and the link.

Every few months, a link crawler could run and replace dead links with either a link to the saved text or a quote of the whole text block.

I had heard that posting entire articles could risk lawsuit, as it goes beyond "fair use?" Maybe I'm getting my copyright/trademark/patent rules mixed up.

For example, I'll never use any part of an article from a source that's owned by Media News (such as the Denver Post), because they file lawsuits against bloggers that quote from their articles.

It's a dilemma.

BdL seems to operate, consciously or otherwise, on the assumption that some future scholar may want to read his work, whether three days from now or three centuries from now. Under the dead tree publishing paradigm, he can simply refer to his source and have a high degree of confidence that the source will be available should the scholar wish to track it down. But he has already observed that under the online paradigm there is no guarantee that the material he is referencing will still be accessible. This is part of what the people warning of a digital dark age are complaining about.

Balanced against that is the fair use issue. Quoting an excerpt for noncommercial purposes is usually considered fair use. Quoting an entire article is generally not. BdL generally does provide the link to the primary source, which include links to other sources (these second-order links, at least under Typepad as Brad has it configured, generally do not carry over; Brad normally quotes that other source as well if he feels it is important enough to the argument). I can understand his reasons for doing so, but he is at minimum playing very close to the fair use line, quite aside from considerations about linking etiquette.

My practice is to use long excerpts (or complete articles) from big-time publications like the WaPost or Yahoo, or anything where I expect posts to evaporate shortly, and short excerpts with links when referencing blogs.

Well, that's interesting if nothing else because I wondered why he dumped great swaths of others' posts in his own.

That said, I often do click through, though not always (probably 70% I'm guessing).

Personally I would happy to be quoted any way I could on Delong's site, but I'm surprised why he's not worried others might sue him - I mean he does go beyond "fair use" to some degree.

I'm kind of ambivalent in the end. I don't think it completely cannibalizes the target source and it probably gives them good PR (I've added many a site to my RSS feeds, including I think yours, because of Delong). Still, it *is* a lot of copying.

A recent court decision said that in some cases posting the complete article is fair use. But I would wait a few years for appeals and other decisions using that one as precedent before considering it 'law of the land'.

The paper that houses my (volunteer) blog has changed blogging platforms three times since I started blogging there, so I don't have some of my own blogs. Now I save everything myself, but in the beginning I kept it all on the newspapers site, thinking they would keep it forever.

Why Federally-Funded Academics Should Seriously Consider Blogging Pseudonymously

mikethemadbiologist — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:12:50 +0000

Why Federally-Funded Academics Should Seriously Consider Blogging Pseudonymously

A few weeks ago, Glenn Greenwald gave a speech where he discussed the climate of government intimidation in the U.S.:

I received a lot of comments from people via email, from people in person telling me at my attended events, from people in my comment section, American citizens who said the following: "I understand and agree with the idea that Wikileaks has a lot of potential to do good, but I'm actually afraid of donating money, because I'm afraid that I'm going to end up on some kind of a list somewhere; or that eventually I will be charged with aiding and abetting, or giving material support to a terrorist group."

This was not one or two people who tended toward the pole of paranoia saying these things. These were very rational people, and there were a lot of them. Some long-term readers whom I knew to be quite sober in their thinking. The fear that they were expressing was somewhat pervasive. That, to me, was extraordinarily striking: that these were American citizens who were afraid to donate money to a group whose political aims they supported; who had never been charged with, let alone convicted of any crime who felt like they were going to end up on some kind of government list, or possibly be charged with aiding and abetting or giving material support to terrorism.

In light of that, comes this chilling tale of targeting University of Wisconsin professor William Cronon who publicly opposed Republican governor Scott Walker:

Earlier this week, Cronon published an Op ed piece in The New York Times that contained a scathing attack on Walker and the Wisconsin GOP, alleging that their anti-union proposal represents a radical break from Wisconsin history. Cronon also posted a blog entry that alleged that a little-known conservative outfit called the American Legislative Exchange Council, which tries to engineer right-wing policies in state legislatures, is behind the Wisconsin anti-union push.
Shortly thereafter, Cronon says, the University of Wisconsin's attorneys received a request from the Wisconsin GOP, under the state open records law, for copies of a huge amount of Cronon's emails sent from his state account at the university. That request is posted right here. Tellingly, the Wisconsin GOP asked for Cronon-authored emails that contain a range of union-related keywords, such as "AFSCME," "collective bargaining," "recall," etc....

Cronon theorizes, based on the keyword requests, that Wisconsin Republicans are trying to catch him in violation of state university rules by using a state email account to engage in "lobbying and electioneering to try to unseat these Repubican legislators." In other words, he says, Wisconsin Republicans want to damage him professionally in response to his criticism of them.

"That's what they're hoping to find," Cronon says. "They're trying to intimidate me. What they're saying is that if an academic raises these kinds of questions, we're going to make his life really uncomfortable. Intimidating people from asking legitimate questions is a McCarthyite tactic."

Movement conservatives, since the days of Donald Segretti and the other 'rat-fuckers', have always done this. They don't reconsider or rethink, they regroup and rearm. Their only rule is that there are no rules. They get away with these scorched earth politics, in part, because we present ourselves as targets. Pseudonymity is a way to speak your peace, and not be retaliated against.

Just something to consider, especially if your career--and livelihood too--is dependent on federal funding.

Case in point: The Republicans are now claiming they're being intimidated.

Troll-be-gone: This isn't about being called names (if you can't handle that, then the open bloggysphere probably isn't for you). It's about ruining people's ability to pay the rent, simply for being in the political opposition.

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The obvious parallel with McCarthy just hit me the other day. It is chilling.

It's about ruining people's ability to pay the rent, simply for being in the political opposition.

Oh, come on - how can you claim they're singling him out by that? Republicans are busy trying to ruin everybody's ability to pay the rent, they're only trying to do to him first what they'll do to everyone else later.

I'm torn, but for once I really have to give the Republicans a pass, for one reason and one reason only: the Freedom of Information Act. I'd much prefer that public university faculty have to go through the tiny inconvenience of not using their academic email address for political uses than see FOIA weakened any more than it already has been. In this day and age it's really only a tiny inconvenience to avoid using university owned computers and phones at all when communicating. If preventing a state-employed political appointee from running a PAC or a re-election campaign out of his state-paid-for computer and office means professors effectively can't use their university supplied email addresses to coordinate with labor leaders about political tactics, I think I'm OK with that.

While this is certainly intimidation, it isn't McCarthyism - unless you think McCarthy was somehow in favor of government transparency.

As Cronon has pointed out, any student e-mail containing (say) the word "Republican" would be subject to this request. Such e-mails need not be for "political purposes" (remember Cronon works on *American History*). In fact Cronon maintains that he has already not sent any e-mails "for political purposes" from his faculty e-mail. The real problem is that the request may dredge up all kinds of confidential emails to students, concerning students, concerning tenure evaluations, etc. These are things that should not have to go through a personal e-mail account like a gmail account. They are appropriate for a work e-mail account.

Arsenic Life and Misunderstanding the Intertoobz

mikethemadbiologist — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:57:36 +0000

Arsenic Life and Misunderstanding the Intertoobz

If you remember some months ago, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe-Simon held a press conference announcing that they had discovered a bacterium that uses arsenic in place of phosphorus. The paper, when released, had compromising methodological problems (for good coverage, read here, here, and here; and snark). At the time Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues were upset at the treatment the paper received on the internet, and initially refused to respond in any forum other than published journals (this policy didn't seem to stop her from giving a TED talk without any forum for critical feedback. Kinda hypocritical).

Zen Faulkes has two very good posts on a Bioessays review (not by Wolfe-Simon) about the subject, but what struck me was this (italics mine):

As part of our response to Dr. Redfield, we also take this opportunity to offer a general comment on the use of the Internet to "review" the technical literature. To be perfectly clear, to the extent that we are familiar with those who offered signed comments regarding the particular case of the Wolfe-Simon et al. paper, we do not in any way question their scientific expertise. Signed comments should be applauded and indeed offer a measure of authenticity, but nevertheless these "chat room" environments are not constrained or screened and at times become ad hominem attacks, which have no place in the scientific literature. And, further, such communications do not, themselves, offer specific citations to support their position. If they are to be viewed as authoritative and do not simply reflect general knowledge, then they too should at least refer to important, foundational papers that support their view. In general and not in reference to the case of the Wolfe-Simon et al. paper, until there is a process in place to screen and edit such commentary (such as here for our current scientific exchange with Dr. Redfield), there remains a credibility issue. We are all aware of the massive misinformation that pervades the Internet and that is why so many simply choose to ignore it rather than track it as part of their efforts to stay informed of the scientific literature pertinent to their research. Because of such accuracy issues, at present and in its current structure, organization and process, the term "authoritative blogs" far too often represents an oxymoron.

We'll leave aside that much of the commentary by bloggers wasn't anonymous (although some of it was pseudonymous). And we'll leave aside the issue that most of these criticisms were written as if they were solicited reviews of the article--which typically aren't laden with citations either.

What mindboggling is that these reviewers have no idea that there is a different between an authored blogpost and comments left on a blog. They're right in that the validity of a statement left by "Big Schlong 69" in the comments section might be questionable. But if someone writes a detailed post, as Rosie Redfield did, with substantial criticisms, that is different in kind from an anonymous statement in the comments. But comments show up, often unsigned. That's just part of the form. Hell, it's hard enough to keep spam out of the comments section. But it doesn't reflect on what the blogger wrote--in fact, some bloggers like John Hawks don't even have comments. Comments are separate from the post--which can be well written and have scientific merit and a track record of other posts.

Utterly clueless about the intertoobz.

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You forgot to close an i tag.

:-)

Oh great. Now the entire freakin' internet to the right of your post is in italics.

Anyway, yes, interesting post. They are asking for a blanket elevation of blogs and comments to some standard level, rather than taking each comment or post on its own. (Lots of posts, even many comments, did indeed have references to published literature, for example!)

Here's what I want to know: In the press conference, the authors said they had a paper coming out in February that would nail down many of the open questions. Have we seen that yet?

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If they are to be viewed as authoritative and do not simply reflect general knowledge, then they too should at least refer to important, foundational papers that support their view.

That's absolutely ridiculous. Didn't Wolfe-Simon et al. present their findings as foundational and ground breaking? Which other founding work on arsenic as part of the DNA backbone would have been available? Dr. Redfield and others rigtfully referred to common biochemical, microbiological and ecological knowledge to present their case. They used common sense to analyze the materials and methods section and referred to available literature that Wolfe-Simon et al. didn't know, ignored or willfully didn't mention. Relying on scripture may work for religions but it surely does not for science.

ScienceBlogs Is Under Attack! HALP!

mikethemadbiologist — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:30:18 +0000

ScienceBlogs Is Under Attack! HALP!

For some of you, access to ScienceBlogs has been wonky. It's not because our Seed Overlords have neglected to feed the hamsters that power the Blogerator 9600. Turns out it's a denial-of-service attack:

We have been forwarding reports from bloggers and users to our hosting service, Rackspace, over the past few days. After monitoring our traffic and these reports, Rackspace has determined that ScienceBlogs is experiencing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and has blocked a range of IP addresses involved. While this means that ScienceBlogs is now loading correctly for most users, the attack is still ongoing and other users may still encounter sporadic loading problems, or be blocked entirely if they were incorrectly included in these preventative measures.

We're still working with Rackspace to determine how and why this has occurred, and to get the site 100% accessible again, but in the meantime, we'd like to collect IP addresses from users who are still experiencing problems. Please ask anyone who has brought this problem to your attention to send their IP address to webmaster@scienceblogs.com. If they have trouble locating their IP address, you can send them to this site: http://whatismyipaddress.com/

Wouldn't want the hamsters to think you're a spambot.

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A Good Blogger Needs Your Help

mikethemadbiologist — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:58:49 +0000

A Good Blogger Needs Your Help

Not me. I said a good blogger. I've been remiss in many things blog-related, but an important thing I've been meaning to do is drumming up some support for Lance Mannion. He's a superb writer, and brings a much-needed human perspective to blogging, which is, for the most part, technonerd-driven. Here's what I mean:

Metaphors for the weak and frightened
"He is not absent-minded. He is just present-minded somewhere else."
Asperger's
There's always tomorrow for dreams to come true...unless you're a conservative, then all dreams will come true yesterday
Hostages to their fortunes
There's no crying in baseball and, apparently, no laughing in football

Lance has had a difficult stretch recently, and if you're able, helping him out a little would be appreciated, not only by Lance, but the rest of us who don't want the internets to suck.

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For Any Digby Readers...

mikethemadbiologist — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:21:05 +0000

For Any Digby Readers...

...Digby gave me a nice little mention last night. This is the post the Atrios quote came from.

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Programming Note: High Holidays

mikethemadbiologist — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:24:57 +0000

Programming Note: High Holidays

I'll be taking a much-needed vacation over the High Holidays, so if you contact me I might not get back to you very quickly (or at all). But don't worry, the blog will keep on blog rollin'.

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