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Blogroll Open Enrollment Day!

By pharyngula on April 30, 2007.

This worked fairly well last time around, so let's try it again. If you'd like to have your blog on the Pharyngula blogroll, here's what you should do:

  • Examine your blog with a critical eye. If you are espousing creationism, Intelligent Design creationism, the beauty of unthinking acceptance of your Lord and Master Jesus Christ or Mohammed or L. Ron Hubbard, or have a Bush in '08 badge on your site, don't bother. Really, you don't want to draw my attention to you. You probably don't like me, anyway.

  • There is a technical limitation. I manage my blogroll with my newsreader, so I can only see sites that have some kind of syndication feed. Most do, nowadays, but if you've got some obscure code you're using to generate your blog, you might not. Static web pages also usually do not. Sorry, I just don't have a good way around this right now.

  • Take a look at the current blogroll, and make sure you aren't already on it. It's so embarrassing to raise your hand and say "Me, me, me!" and discover that you were picked a long time ago. It would also be polite to check out a few of those other blogs while you're skimming the list — the point of the blogroll is to send some traffic to other places, after all.

  • After leaping all those tremendous hurdles, leave a comment here, with a link to your blog. You can just type the url into your comment, or if you want to show off your amazing html skills, you can imbed a link, like so: <a href="http://my.blog.url/">My Blog!</a>. Easy! You might also want to describe what's special about your blog, so other readers might be enticed to check it out. Regular readers or people already on my blogroll might be reading the comments to pick up interesting new blogs, too.

  • Write out a check for $100 and send it to… Uh, never mind. There are no catches to this, you don't even have to link back to me. Just write good stuff.

As before, I make no promises to keep you on the blogroll, and in particular, I ruthlessly purge blogs that fail to update for over a month.

Now let's hope the response isn't quite as overwhelming as last time. Haven't I already linked to most of the blogosphere already?

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Shouldn't it be called a "groll" by now?

PZ I think before long you're going to be able to act as a backup for Technorati. It's a bit humbling that your blogroll has more incoming links than my entire blog ;)

The last time you held this event, I found a lot of great things to read, so I'm looking forward to it this time around as well.

Eh, what the hey, I wouldn't mind a link. My blog is Confessions of an Anonymous Coward; basically it's about my coming to terms with the complete lack of any good reason to believe in God, after having been raised in the Mormon church, though there are also some general posts on religion, atheism, and skepticism that don't necessarily relate directly to my own experiences and situation.

(Incidentally, I think you--among other bloggers--were part of what finally helped me overcome decades of religious conditioning, so thanks for that!)

I'll put mine in for consideration:

Think Tonk

Unlike other philosophical blogs, this one's run by a godless liberal. Oh, wait... It's run by a godless liberal who was a biology major for two years!!!

It looks like my occasional co-posters and I are already present. Now, we just have to keep ourselves there!

On a related note, I'm really starting to like the variations upon the Randall Munroe (xkcd) malapropism blag. It gives you blaggregation, blagnet and so forth. Anybody can put RSS feeds in their news reader; Real Men use a blaggregator.

I also like groll. It sounds like the collective noun for grues.

http://jaylake.livejournal.com/

You might be interested in Lakeshore, my blog. I'm a science fiction and fantasy author and godless liberal.

On my blog I cover the professional end of the science fiction and fantasy field (ie, topics of interest to working and aspiring writers and editors), leftie/progressive politics, gun control, Creationism/ID, cool science, weird science, photography and miscellaneous personal topics. I've got a pretty solid daily readership, and have been ranked as one of the top 25 SF blogs in the world by John Scalzi, who maybe knows what he's talking about.

Also, I sent you some really cool squid art in the lettermail last year, in the form of a copy of Jeff VanderMeer's THE EXCHANGE. (And freshwater squid are mentioned in my most recent novel.)

A Romani Atheist in a Christian World

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Cogita Tute - A Skeptical Blog

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Bronze Dog of the Bronze Blog here. I do general skepticism, some emphasis on evolution, and I spent some time on mercury-autism crankery. Found out that Denialism used some of my stuff.

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My open-enrollment testimony:

Pharyngula worked for me! In just 27 minutes on the Pharyngula blogroll program I gained pounds of muscle, lost the fat, ate whatever I wanted, and was able to freeze Mormons in their tracks with a glance from my newly glowing eyeballs!

And the tentacles? Fahgeddaboudit! They are so useful around the house-- now I can easily clean hard to reach places, win the big prize in Skee Ball, and play four pianos at the same time while mixing cocktails for all my new friends!

Yes, I'm the envy of the neighborhood, and I owe it all to Pharyngula's open enrollment program-- a mysterious blend of 42 herbs and spices that kicks my blog up a notch. BAM! That's not just blogging enthusiasm, it's the sound of my screen door hitting a Jehovah's Witness in the ass!

I'm sad. I got enblogrollerated, and couldn't find it, and wept piteously to PZ, who pointed out, "hey dummy, you're on there, get over it" in nicer terms, then to my horror i noted that i had posted my main page instead of the XML feed! oh the harrah! I can only hope Babyfight will be given a second chance.

Sexy Secularist, an unfortunately named blog.

Maintained by three men whose areas of expertise and interest range engineering, physics, music, film, mathematics, astronomy, human sexuality, theatrical literature, and dirty books. Politics range from the left-leaning centrist to the fiercely liberal, religion ranges from godless to godless. Writing quality ranges from awesome to super-awesome.

Philosophy and Bioethics

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Dan of Tinny Words, here.

Nothing special, just a hodge-podge personal blog of a three-year Pharyngula regular. Movie and book reviews, college sports, some evolution stuff, with a dash of politics, all tied up with a big red ribbon of quiet, sligtly random goofiness. I'll be posting some of my old musicology papers in the next few weeks, though. One of them is already up.

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I'm starting a doctoral neuroscience program in the fall, and that was the impetus behind starting my blog. In addition to neuroscience specifically, I discuss general science as it relates to religion and parenting issues. Oh, and anything else I feel like talking about.

Well, gosh . . I really should post more often, but I have this day job, you know? I'm not too far from you sitting up here in Fargo!

Diatomaceous Earth - Filtering the bullshit so you don't have to.

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PZ, it may be a bit too direct to just demand checks. I recommend the Klick and Klack approach--"write the name of your blog on the back of a twenty dollar bill, and send it to..." Much more refined.

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...oops, was that out loud.

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