Since you asked. Uncertainty is due to the answer to #7.
Category: Blogs
Blog Pimping(*)
I feel a little guilty for catering to the whims of Internet perverts in the previous entry, so here are a couple of new science-y blogs worth taking a look at: First, via Derek Lowe, is the blog of chemistry grad student Dylan Stiles. There’s lots of highly geeky material, with lots of little diagrams… Continue reading Blog Pimping(*)
scienceblogs.livejournal.com
It’s apparently PZ Myers’s birthday, which has triggered an orgy of “happy birthday” posts on ScienceBlogs. It’s so, so… LiveJournal. Still, everybody else is doing it, so, hey, man, happy birthday. Celebrate with some spicy baked cuttledfish: (“Mr. Squid” image from this page of weird Asian snacks.)
They Can’t Handle the Truth
I’m generally sort of hesitant to take part in the various “meme” things that float around the Internet, because I’m just contrarian enough that it feels wrong to link to something just because everybody else is. Orac’s got a good one, though, for a worthy cause. Recently, somebody tried to burn down the Holocaust History… Continue reading They Can’t Handle the Truth
In Case You Were Wondering
About my take on the critically important science question sweeping ScienceBlogs, the answer is Cowboy Bebop. I’m cool with that. I get better theme music than any of the others. (Totally scientific quiz here.)
The True Purpose of the Internet
Theory 1: “The Internet exists to make me look smart.” —John Scalzi A question for folks more computer-savvy than I: Whenever I cut and paste quotes from some other page into the editing window on Movable Type, quote marks and dashes get mangled into non-standard characters. They look just fine when I’m editing, but when… Continue reading The True Purpose of the Internet
Links Dump
Miscellaneous quick things that I’ve noticed this week that don’t quite rate a full post of their own: First, a couple of links from
Physics Blog Notes
There was an article about physics blogs a little while back in Physics World, that didn’t mention me by name, but did link to the Steelypips site. It mostly talks up the informal information exchange side of things. In that spirit, here are some things I found via physics blog (mostly through Mixed States (after… Continue reading Physics Blog Notes
In Which I Sell Ads for the Man
I probably ought to say something about the New York Times piece on ScienceBlogs yesterday, except, well, there’s not much to say. It’s about two paragraphs in a media column, focussed entirely on the fact that they’re going to try to sell ads on these sites (presumably, the big Seed ad on the right will… Continue reading In Which I Sell Ads for the Man
Where Have All the Experimentalists Gone?
Over at Gene Expression, Razib spins an interesting question off my call for blog posts: why are there so many biology bloggers? As I said in comments over there, I think there are two main reasons why you find more bio-bloggers than physics bloggers. The first is that there are simply more biologists than physicists–… Continue reading Where Have All the Experimentalists Gone?