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BLAAAAAAAAAG ROLLLLLLLL!!!!

By sa smith on June 3, 2008.

Alls quiet on the intertubes tonight.

And I had a really bad day at work today (one of those days where nothing worked *rolleyes*) so Im too grumpy to write a nice post. I just wanna make some cocoa and take some Tylenol PM.

And Ive been on SciBlogs for about a month now.

And one major element has been missing.

BLAAAAAAAAG ROLLLLLL!!!!!

Leave a comment so I can add you all to my blog roll! I only ask that you post now and then, and you allow comments!

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I want to be on your blog roll. Your blog is my favorite blog of them all. No kidding.

Are you going to have a rotating blog roll or a static blog roll?

I'll go make sure you are on my blog roll right now.

Greg-- I want PZs fancy rotating blag roll in his side bar, with a full list on a tab. Im trying to bully him into giving me his html code for that neat rotating thingie-- Ive been coveting it for ages :P

lol @ efrique-- escatsy and fluoresence are two words I will never be capable of spelling properly. Ur blog name is not helping.

I only occasionally have science-related posts (most are personal or technology oriented, and infrequent at that) but I would be honored to have a spot on your blogroll. Count me in.

Send me the email I'll reply with the code for the sidebar thingie. I got it from dbdw.

erv: Heh. That's why you need my blog in your roll, so you only need to remove the lisp (replace "th" with "s") whenever you want ecstasy.

(It's just a combination of "ecstatic" with "athy" - if, like me, you ever get called "athiest" then you must be very, very athy indeed.)

I call it the Intarnewbs or the Innertubes.

Ooh, can I be on your blago-sphere-roll too? I'm sorry I can't reciprocate, unless you want to be known as \frac{1}{ERV}.

Oh wow, free stuff - Cool!
Well, I'm a total newbie in semi-science blogging(though not to blogging in general in the Blogos- Inter- BlogoMoronia?)
But sure, a link would be very cool =)

Oh, while you got help for "ecstasy" (me too, btw - love Ffox spell-check), try writing "fluorescence microscopy" on a daily basis. Soon, fluorescence will begin to flow out of your keyboard (though it also might mean you track etbr in somewhere).

Endogenous retroviruses are nifty, so I'd be pleased to be on your blogroll (or BLAAAAAG ROLLLLL if you prefer)...
Posts on The Big Room tend to cluster around Microbiology/Brewing/Food Science and Neogeography/mapping/travel, with the occasional digression into other usually-scientific (or technical) matters - and I'm eager for commenters.
(Do the non-exogenous viral elements carried by virtually all Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains count as ERV's?...)

I'm still shocked that Randall didn't have "Inter-tron" on that chart.

Oh, yeah, and I'd love to be on the blogroll, if you'll hold no grudge for being on your old, (don't be) evil provider. I'll even reciprocate, because I enjoy really snarky, intelligent science folk, but mostly because I'm lazy and just haven't gotten around to it before now.

It'd be an honour, but I don't really have anything to talk about except slash so no blagotron for me.

Oh dear - the strikethrough went missing. Bother.

I wouldn't mind, either. I don't post very often, but when I do, it's worth it. :)

I'll be adding the new ERV to my blogroll as soon as I do another update (and my b0rken fniger marcos start working again)...

Sure, sign me up I post semi regularly on atheist and gender queer topics or whatever strikes my fancy. I your honor I will actually post something new today.

Timing, timing. I'm about to disappear for work and vacation travel, so my blog won't be updated until July. On the other hand, folks (per my last post there) can send in thoughts for making it a livelier place when I get back. (Knowing that I'd be leaving for a month, I haven't been putting up as much as I will after I get back.)

Mine is semi-random but usually science related. I did use it to help start a mini war with our college TV station regarding proselytizing on public $$$. ERV is already on my blogroll. Actually, it's number one. Don't tell PZ.

Long time lurker, first time poster!

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By LibraryGuy (not verified) on 04 Jun 2008 #permalink

I'm not quite sure what you roll your blogs of, but I do love smoking it afterward!

Hi Abbie,

Am reposting below the latest wit and wisdom from my "buddy" Bill Dembski that he posted yesterday at Uncommon Dissent. He's absolutely clueless as usual.

Your lab days will be better and yield fruitful results. Hang in there.

Cheers,

John

4 June 2008

Strengths and Weaknesses > Creationism > Religion > Unconstitutional
William Dembski

Heres an interesting article in the NYTimes regarding science education in Texas. Laura Beil, the author, outlines the long-standing (pre-Dover) attempt by critics of evolutionary theory to teach the theorys strengths and weaknesses. Although mandating that the weaknesses of evolutionary theory be taught falls well short of attempts to mandate the teaching of intelligent design, this too is unacceptable with hardcore evolutionists such as the National Center for Selling Evolution (NCSE). Their strategy to counter it? Treat any attempt to teach weaknesses of evolutionary theory as stealth creationism, therefore as religion, and therefore as unconstitutional.

This approach, however, may backfire. The NCSE cannot simply deny that there are any known weaknesses to evolutionary theory, because laundry lists outlining failures of the theory to match up with data are well known and widely circulated. But to engage in a discussion about why, for instance, the Cambrian explosion does or doesnt count as negative evidence against evolutionary theory underscores that there is a legitimate scientific controversy here. The temptation will therefore be for the NCSE to argue, though theyll be sure to soft-pedal it, that there can be no weaknesses to the theory. But that will raise the question whether anything could count as evidence against it. Haldanes rabbit fossil in the pre-Cambrian doesnt go nearly far enough here. Either the NCSE will have to outline the types of evidence that could count against evolutionary theory, or theyll have to deny flat out that any evidence can count against it.

But if no evidence can count against a claim, how can it be scientific? Scientific claims, it would seem, must minimally be open to confirmation or disconfirmation in light of evidence. Unlike mandating the teaching of ID, mandating the teaching of evolutions strengths and weaknesses may hold some promise for breaking the scientific materialists stranglehold over Americas public school science curriculum.

By the way, check out www.strengthsandweaknesses.org.

By John Kwok (not verified) on 05 Jun 2008 #permalink