{"id":3756,"date":"2009-06-12T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T09:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/12\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badges\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T09:27:51","slug":"we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/12\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinkin&#8217; Badges, But We Do Have Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Ng has recently upgraded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/\">Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique<\/a> site, which provides a variety of achievement badges for members to claim and post. I&#8217;m not a big one for extra graphics on the blog (they delay the loading of the cute baby pictures), but if you&#8217;re into goofy stuff, they&#8217;ve got some fun options.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the badges I can claim include:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-i-blog-about-science-badge\/\">I Blog About Science<\/a> (duh)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-has-frozen-stuff-just-to-see-what-happens-badge-level-iii\/\">Has Frozen Stuff Just to See What Happens (Level III)<\/a> (liquid nitrogen is cool)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-worship-me-i%e2%80%99ve-published-in-nature-or-science-badge\/\">Worship Me, I&#8217;ve Published in <cite>Nature<\/cite> or <cite>Science<\/cite><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-experienced-with-electrical-shock-badge-level-iii\/\">Experienced with Electrical Shock (Level III)<\/a> (I brushed against the ~1kV electrode on the plasma discharge source about three times in one week when I was in grad school)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-i%e2%80%99ve-set-fire-to-stuff-badge-level-iii\/\">I&#8217;ve Set Fire to Stuff (Level III)<\/a> (Thankfully, not including myself)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-science-deprives-me-of-my-bed-badge-level-i\/\">Science Deprives Me of My Bed (Level I)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-i-somehow-convince-someone-to-part-with-a-lot-of-money-for-science-badge\/\">I Somehow Convinced Someone to Part With a Lot of Money for Science (Level I)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/the-quantum-mechanics-i-soooo-get-it-badge\/\">Quantum Mechanics: I Soooo Get It<\/a> (I don&#8217;t, really, but the dog does.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got a bunch of other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scq.ubc.ca\/sciencescouts\/hello-world\/\">new developments<\/a>, too (Twitter and Facebook, etc.). So if you&#8217;re looking for a fun, low-impact Friday morning time-waster, you could do a lot worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Ng has recently upgraded the Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique site, which provides a variety of achievement badges for members to claim and post. I&#8217;m not a big one for extra graphics on the blog (they delay the loading of the cute baby pictures), but if you&#8217;re&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/12\/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-badges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinkin&#8217; Badges, But We Do Have Some<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-lab_stories","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}