Dave at the World’s Fair is asking ScienceBloggers to show off their coffee mugs. I don’t usually have a camera at work, but my signature mug was bought via the Internet, so I snagged the image from the CafePress Store. It’s a “Still Not King” mug, a reference to the famous Very Secret Diary of… Continue reading Mugged!
Category: Blogs
The Internet Is a Very Strange Place
As you may or may not have noticed, last week’s silly dog post got picked up by, well, just about everyone. I think it probably started with a sidelight link at Making Light, then it showed up on Boing Boing, and Digg, and MetaFilter, and something like half the LiveJournals in the world, it seems.… Continue reading The Internet Is a Very Strange Place
Call for Submissions
Stuart Coleman of Daily Irreverence is going to be hosting the next edition of the physics blog carnival Philosophia Naturalis in the near future, and he’s looking for posts. So, if you’ve got physics blog material you’d like to see receive more attention, go over there, and send it to Stuart.
Not-So-Casual Wednesday
Via a pseudonymous LiveJournal, an online study that combines the fun of clicking radio buttons with the thrill of doing SCIENCE! * The study URL is: http://www.homeport.org/~kcat/study3/ * It takes about 15 minutes. You listen to 8 short clips and answer questions about how the people sound. It is easily as fun as a quiz.… Continue reading Not-So-Casual Wednesday
Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma’am
Over at Mixing Memory, Chris is annoyed with Larry Moran and PZ Myers for comparing themselves to suffragists: It’s difficult, at this point, to say anything other than, “Are you kidding me?” Watching white, middle-class, mostly ex-Protestant males (the dominant new atheist demographic) compare themselves to feminists, labor movements, gay and civil rights activists, or… Continue reading Wham, Bam, Thank You Ma’am
Fair Use: Ditto
Shelley Batts at Retrospectacle got a nasty letter from a publisher over a blog post in which she reproduced a part of a figure and one data table from a paper. It’s more than a little surprising to me that the publisher thinks this is a good use of their time, but who knows? Maybe… Continue reading Fair Use: Ditto
Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Unite!
SFWA, your source for train-wrecky goodness on the Internet has indirectly caused International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day: On this day, everyone who wants to should give away professional quality work online. It doesn’t matter if it’s a novel, a story or a poem, it doesn’t matter if it’s already been published or if it hasn’t, the… Continue reading Pixel-Stained Technopeasants Unite!
Why Do I Blog?
I do it for the toys:
Philosophia Naturalis
Just a quick note that everybody’s favorite physics-oriented blog carnival is now up: Philosophia Naturalis #8. Once again, I forgot to submit anything, but Sujit was kind enough to include one of the things I wrote anyway. There’s a lot of good stuff there, so go check it out.
Bérubé is Back
Well, ok, he hasn’t posted anything yet, but Michael Bérubé will be joining Crooked Timber. This is good news indeed for the academic blogging community. I didn’t read his blog as regularly as it deserved the first time around, but he was one of the sharper writers out there, and it’s good to see him… Continue reading Bérubé is Back