Aug 29 2011

I got a new t-shirt

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Now I have a Life Before the Dinosaurs t-shirt, and you probably don’t. So there.

This is the science blog by a 7-year-old kid. One of the networks ought to snap him up, he’s good … I wonder if we should draft him for Freethought Blogs.

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Dhorvath, OM

29 August 2011 at 12:32 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Seven? Seven! That’s our future, right there. Seven and making an audience about science. Good things, good things.
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butterflyfish

29 August 2011 at 12:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Thanks for the link, PZ. That kid’s awesome! I vote in his favor.
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Rambling T. Wreck

29 August 2011 at 12:44 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I always thought dinosaurs were a little dull. They’re really not that different from anything living today.

The palaeozoic weirdness that came before was much, much cooler.

This kid is who I’d like to think I might have been if the web was around in the early 70s. I know I was already fascinated by the extinct weirdness, but I don’t know if I could have described it as lucidly.
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Carlie

29 August 2011 at 12:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Gives me a 404 error. :(
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Allen L.

29 August 2011 at 12:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Darn kids these days. Always ahead of old guys like me. I am impressed, his blogging is better than a certain creatards who had a link here a little while ago.
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pinkboi

29 August 2011 at 1:10 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I love the stages we geeks go through when we see stuff like this – “damn kid, I should have been doing that when I was his age..” all the way to the last, “wow, this is cool.”
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nigelTheBold, Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins

29 August 2011 at 1:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Carlie:

Gives me a 404 error. :(

It gives me a a 909 error: “You are not worthy.”
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Richard Austin

29 August 2011 at 1:17 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Only works as “www.lifebeforethedinosaurs.com”, not without the “www”. Minor DNS issue that can be resolved, if someone can let the guy (or whomever is running the site for him) know.
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Glen Davidson

29 August 2011 at 1:23 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sorry, life began with the dinosaurs (I’m sure even our early mammal ancestors were impressed).

And they’re still some of the most impressive things around.

Glen Davidson
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Lauren

29 August 2011 at 1:29 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

*Adds to blog subscriptions*

Totally jealous of the shirt! I may have to snatch up one for meself.
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MJtheProphet

29 August 2011 at 2:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

This blog made my day. The kid is awesome, and gives me hope for the future.
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'Tis Himself, pour encourager les autres

29 August 2011 at 2:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Sorry, life began with the dinosaurs (I’m sure even our early mammal ancestors were impressed).

I suspect the protista might disagree.
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Cosmic Snark

29 August 2011 at 2:59 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m jealous. I sent P.Z. “Jesus is coming soon” boxer shorts and he never even thanked me. Harrumph.
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Kirk

29 August 2011 at 3:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Cosmic,

Probably if they had P.Z. is coming soon he might have been more interested…
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Anonymosity

29 August 2011 at 3:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

What an interesting dating site entry his interests would make.

Likes: extinct jawless fish
Dislikes: mammals

7 years old? His site puts many grown-up pages to shame.
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physioprof

29 August 2011 at 3:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Yeah! Let’s sign the little fucker uppe!
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PZ Myers

29 August 2011 at 3:20 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You did? I never received them!
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Birger Johansson

29 August 2011 at 3:25 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Ediacarans on a T-shirt! Cool.

Also, we have the…I don’t recall all the names…synapsids (including Dimetrodon) and the later proto-mammals that dominated the fauna before the great Permian extinction.
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Sili

29 August 2011 at 3:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I’m jealous. I sent P.Z. “Jesus is coming soon” boxer shorts and he never even thanked me. Harrumph.

Intercepted by campus security, no doubt.
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'Tis Himself, pour encourager les autres

29 August 2011 at 3:38 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I sent P.Z. “Jesus is coming soon” boxer shorts

Why would PZ have any interest in some Hispanic’s sex life?
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chigau ()

29 August 2011 at 3:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That looks like a medicine wheel.
http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/human/archaeo/faq/_medwhls.htm
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Juice

29 August 2011 at 4:18 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The Vonnegut estate might think that shirt infringes on some intellectual property of theirs. Anyone whose read SH5 knows what I’m talking about.
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LykeX

29 August 2011 at 4:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I wonder if we should draft him for Freethought Blogs

A thought comes to mind: Do a “featured blog” service for promising bloggers. Something like, for one week, all their posts are reposted to freethoughtblogs to draw readers to them.
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Carlie

29 August 2011 at 4:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

*sigh* If only my child loved real organisms as much as Pokemon. Sadly, it is not to be.
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Phasic

29 August 2011 at 6:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That blog is really interesting! Subscribed.

Great work, kiddo.
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Susannah

29 August 2011 at 6:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I wonder if we should draft him for Freethought Blogs

Yes, please!
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FlavorDav

29 August 2011 at 6:48 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

… for anybody still waiting on today’s post, Art’s amanuensis/mom says, between the hurricane (power still out) and the fall semester, Art’s going to a weekly rather than daily schedule while school’s in session (having posted on 100 creatures in 100 days). And for the record, I’ve an OG LBTD ringer t-shirt …
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mythusmage

29 August 2011 at 8:13 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Bookmarked, will be adding to my blogroll shortly.

I suspect he has an in-house editor for spelling mistakes and the like. :) Still, more than worthy of one’s daily attentions.
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Kamaka

29 August 2011 at 9:51 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I wonder if we should draft him for Freethought Blogs.

I think that’s a grand idea. Though the higher profile may very well attract wingnuts willing to trash-talk a seven-year-old.

“Hello, son, this is Ray Comfort and I’m here to tell you the good news, and why you are all wrong…”
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chigau (™)

29 August 2011 at 10:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Kamaka
That is a horrifying scenario.
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tim Rowledge

30 August 2011 at 1:19 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

You did? I never received them!

It’s always that way; they’ll keep saying they’re coming but whenever the date passes, nothing happens and it’s always somebody else’s fault.
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SQB

30 August 2011 at 2:08 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

A thought comes to mind: Do a “featured blog” service for promising bloggers. Something like, for one week, all their posts are reposted to freethoughtblogs to draw readers to them.

Alternatively, I remember some guest posts over at the ~~old~~ other Pharyngula. Why not create a special Free Thoughts Guest Blog for those? So instead of reposting, they’d have to write a post especially for FTB. Also, that would give opportunity for people without blogs to write an occasional post.
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Chris

30 August 2011 at 7:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

That kid is amazing.Make me smile :D
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Jessie

30 August 2011 at 10:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I like the idea of a Free Thoughts Guest Blog.