Fame
stoat | April 21, 2012You knew that, obviously, or you wouldn't be here. I have an entry on Conservapedia, you don't get much more famous than that. Compare that with so-called climate "scientists" like James Annan - even his tippling great-uncle only gets a few lines (and no invective, how dull). I see that a while ago I mocked Conservapedia for being dumb but said that, whilst nearly fact free, it was "not really even very funny". I'm pleased to see that they've corrected that: now Global warming is the liberal hoax[2][3] that... and so on. Conservapedia is so risible that no-one (not even the WUWT folks) would…
jtoney | July 20, 2011
Fourteen year old internet sensation Rebecca Black just released a follow up video "My Moment" after her debut of "Friday" that went viral with more than 167 million views. Attention at this scale landed her a spot on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and a music video with Katy Perry, "Last Friday Night".
Such opportunities for seemingly instant fame can affect these teens, and pre-teens, in a profound way: IRL (In Real Life)...
Rebecca Black has had to endure the backlash of cyberbullying after her first video.
And Black, 13, certainly never anticipated the social media uproar, mainstream…
stoat | April 25, 2010On google searches for "stoat", that is. And also number 3. I even took a pic of it.
Meanwhile, a busy day and I'm tired. No time for more.
awild | December 5, 2009
Oddly enough, a photograph I took in 2007 has been chosen as one of Popular Science's 2009 "The Year's Most Amazing Scientific Images" (I'm #34 in the gallery). I guess that's because the image wasn't widely distributed until the NY Times picked it up earlier this year. Not that I'm complaining, of course.
My favorite image in Popular Science's lineup is this one, a spectacular confluence of lightning and volcanic eruption captured by Carlos Gutierrez. But there are plenty of other stunning images in the gallery. Go see.