Bad news: I’m informed offline by Mattir that fellow hordeling crowepps has passed away, not particularly expectedly. She wasn’t the most loquacious commenter here, and I didn’t know her at all aside from reading what she wrote here. But I always liked what she had to say. She was funny: I am boggled by the …
Category Archive: Bloggery
Apr 11 2013
New Rule
You’ve all seen it, the increasingly common inept attempt people make to defuse valid criticism of their untenable positions. Most recent sighting for me was this comment at The Mary Sue, which consisted mainly of the commenter saying that no way would any man have pulled the “fake geek girl” routine on Rae Johnston and …
Apr 10 2013
Did Richard Carrier have to remind me…
…that I was responsible for the Thunderf00t fiasco here? I don’t pay any attention to his videos any more, but Richard carried out an amazingly thorough dissection of one of his recent videos that, as seems to be common nowadays, rants and raves about Freethoughtblogs, feminism, me, and of all things, minorities in atheism. I …
Apr 07 2013
A subtle warning
Both Hank Fox and Token Skeptic are leaving for Patheos. I should warn you what happens to those who leave us.
Apr 02 2013
EllenBeth Wachs recounts her experiences
She has posted a summary of her experience commenting here — entirely from her perspective of course, but worth a look. My position: I think she was completely wrong on the Adria Richards issue. She was looking at it entirely from the position of a conference organizer, who prioritizes not rocking the boat and keeping …
Mar 28 2013
John Wilkins sells out
He’s willing to restart Evolving Thoughts if someone can monetize it for him. Come on, people, he’s a philosopher — you know he’s going to come cheap.
Mar 20 2013
Around FtB
This may be redundant — you all cruise every blog on the site already, right? Ed is asking for donations, and exploring ideas to get an ad-free site. Give him your input! The Digital Cuttlefish thinks God is a misogynist. I think he’s right. Greta has a guest post — it seems that being a …
Mar 09 2013
Well crap, I missed out on the cake
This is what happens when you stay off the internet all day: you miss your co-blogger’s birthday celebration. I didn’t even get a card together or anything. Guess I’ll have to dust off this old thing again. Just add 7 to all the ages mentioned. Actually, from the looks of that cake plate, I think …
Mar 06 2013
Bora 1, Climate Denialist Kooks 0
This is really a thing of beauty: climate pseudoscientist Willis Eschenbach whines at the inadvertent comedy blog Watt’s Up With That that Bora Zivkovic has been moderating comments on his SciAm blog. Eschenbach, who’s also a Mass Extinction denialist, objects to Bora’s having instituted some basic anti-troll measures at A Blog Around The Clock that …
Mar 04 2013
A little blogging exercise for my students
In my development class, students have been blogging away for the last few weeks, and I asked them to send me links to ones they wouldn’t mind seeing advertised. I’ve told them that an important part of effectively blogging is to link and comment, so they’re supposed to write something this week that adds to …
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