The month of March was a record traffic month: 2,296,911 visits. What did I do this time?
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
The month of March was a record traffic month: 2,296,911 visits. What did I do this time?
I’m here for my daily dose of insanity/sanity.
It must be me driving traffic to your fledgling site. :-)
More under- or un-employeed people with nothing better to do than cycle through their list of bookmarks?
It marks the one-year anniversary of crackergate, doesn’t it?
I’m getting my big events mixed up… last march was the Month of Expelled!
I dunno, but please do more science and less atheism related things this month.
Could some one tell me what impact would cold fusion have on our country and whether the upcoming test this June will be successful?
hey, speaking of crackergate…
still looking for those who might be interested in contributing to the crackergate site (I simply don’t have the time to do much with it):
http://www.crackergate.com/
if interested, email Archbishop Fish:
IchthyicATcrackergateDOTcom
Dancaban has it pretty well summed up :)
Happy Fool’s Day!
And a Happy Monkey to you too!
It’s because I put a link up to your blog. I expect the same in return.
I’m just hanging, chillin’.
Lurkin’
Well.. i only found your website not to long ago.
So i’m reading and learning and pondering on some of the narrow mindness and stupidity of people.
I stopped by a couple times.
It may sound like a lot, but most of it is Alan Clarke and RogerS being tedious in the Science Of Watchmen thread.
I’m always visiting and sharing your posts with my buddies. I come here everyday; I can’t get enough of you. Heh, heh ^_^
IT IS BECAUSE YOU SPREAD NONSENSE (DARWINISM)….SO PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN YOUR LIES….
*blushes* Guilty as charged.
“What did I do this time?”
— Well, you let your wife take your interspecies porn posts in all new directions…
You continue to exist.
JAMSHED MOIDU wrote…
IT IS BECAUSE YOU SPREAD NONSENSE (DARWINISM)….SO PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN YOUR LIES….
because he hasn’t figured out where the caps lock key is.
This, folks is how not to research your term paper…
@JAMSHED MOIDU
DO YOU HAVE TO..(cough,cough)..I mean, do you have to scream? Really, sheesh.
And you could at least ATTEMPT to say something intelligent.
Just hanging with the boys…..and girls….
Havent picked one up in 2 years tho,especially no catholic chick,and we all know what they are like when the lights are out !
*Sigh*
Maybe I have to be here more often…even more often,that is…Why are days only 24 hours anyway,can someone pray for longer days please?
I recently wandered to your blog a couple of times through Reddit. The amount of interesting content crossed the threshold of getting a spot in my bookmarks.
PZ, why do you ask questions you know the answer to? Clearly it’s been way too long since your last post about cephalopod sex. People are going into withdrawal. You can expect exponential growth in traffic unless you satiate your audience.
Addicted. I’m just addicted.
…so YOU’RE this PZ Myers I’ve heard so much about! ;)
Short-time fan from Australian.
I’m nearly at my one-year anniversary of coming here. Interestingly enough, it was the random reading of an article about how Dawkins got into the screening of
ExpelledExcrement and you didn’t that brought me here in the first place.Crackergate, however, is what really sucked me in. That was just too much fun; now SIWOTI has me addicted – as the God, Abortionist thread illustrates.
#24
Actually the length of Earth’s rotation on its axis is only 23.934 hours…wait, that doesn’t help any does it?
Oh so happy to have the chance to tell you how happy reading your blog makes me. I learn SO much. Takes me hours cause then I have to read up on stuff to understand.
Not to long ago you posted a video of a women being interviewed at the discover institute and she was a wack job, well I watched it with my 16 year old son (he is already more smart then I) and he thought it was SO FUNNY! We laughed about it together.
Another member of the oz shift, with pretty much the same story as Wowbagger
Trying to avoid the SIWOTI addiction – I need to sleep occasionally!
I almost never comment but stop by routinely. I used to be on the Institute for Creation Research mailing list just for the fun of it back in the 80’s. It constantly blows me away that anyone still has to battle these people. This whole thing should have been a done deal decades ago. In fact I’m so much of the mind “been there done that” that the topic doesn’t interest me at all anymore. But I guess someone needs to fight the good fight, and I’m glad there are fresh hearts and minds ready to do it.
Survivor:Pharyngula. Reality Shows are good for ratings
Instead of just reading your posts in my reader, I felt compelled to also click the links and read a few random comments. That is why you had unusually high visit stats.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve not found a more entertaining and informative blog around!
Antipodeans reprazent. Two fellow postdocs from our lab saw your closing address at the IEDG conference in Berkeley last year (didn’t go myself, the boss and I got to go to Ghent, which is apparently in Belgium, for EED instead) and returned with massive big-ups for the fighting of the good fight etc. As one of aforesaid postdocs is my wife I’m contractually obliged to pay some form of attention to her findings.
@17: You mean the ‘lies’ responsible for medical breakthroughs as well as breakthroughs in the understanding of our common origins?
Hmm, I wonder how many other lies have aided humanity? Oh, like how Galileo’s lies about a heliocentric solar system allowed us to send men to the moon and probes to the other planets?
What did I do this time?
It must’ve been getting voted Humorist of the Year by the AHA! :¬)
I guess there’re many lurkers here.
2,296,911 hits eh?
I want to let you know that 1,927,341 of them were from me repeatedly clicking the ‘Refesh’ button one boring afternoon.
Sorry.
BTW,
2296911 visits in 31 days equals 74093 visits per day,3087 per hour,and 51 visits to Pharyngula per minute.
Thats more views than CSI or Simpsons gets on Australian TV in a month,I would guess.
Given that number,Im surprised there isnt more advertising here !!
We return you to your regular programme…..
We’re addicted, there’s not enough work for us, we love you, and we’re spreading the word and bringing more people here.
Plus there are the trolls. Apparently they’re addicted, too.
Can’t stay away, Prof. Between you and Mudflats, I’m not getting this OU geology assignment done.
Still giggling at our SHOUTY CORRESPONDENT (#17). You gots to love the nutbars. Personally I’m glad someone’s finally pointed out it’s all lies, I’ve been feeling very guilty about all the evolution research funding we and others have been (obviously fraudulently) obtaining, though now it appears I’m out of a job now that our little ruse has been uncovered.
But still, fine detective work there Sherlock. And nice blog full of photos of beardy men. You’re not an ecologist are you?
posted messages on GW of LATimes: they were never published !
Afterwards they ask why newspapers disappear !
It ain’t so much you, Myers, as the freaks who daily post essays in the comments on whom you – OK, we – bestow Mollies. Other sites can be as entertaining, like Pandagon, Slactivist, Crooked Timber and Obsidian Wings, and a few commenters appear in multiple venues. One Molly is elsewhere God of Biscuits, for example.
It’s a community, and we enjoy each other’s presence. Thank you, and thank you all, for this very enjoyable place.
Are we to assume, then, that Kwok’s attempts to decrease your traffic as well as the number of your facebook friends has not been entirely successful?
#7: Cold fusion remains bullshit until proven otherwise. Don’t hold your breath for that.
Must be the snail-porn…
Without the support of John Kwok and his cadre you should see a significant drop off in traffic ;).
I “converted” away from a belief in “biblical creation” in my teen years (late ’70’s), and actually wrote a letter in 1981 to an organization that promoted their creation science (the ICR??), and I attempted to be both critical and conciliatory.
(the letter was a composition class assignment as a Penn State freshman (Biology major)… got an A+)
Quote by Ray Mummert of Dover PA: “We’ve been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture”
Well, I’m new this month and I have to say that I was INSTANTLY addicted. Why did I not find this blog years ago? It’s seriously the best one I’ve found in a long time. Every article is a good read, plus the links, plus the comments… *sigh* You’re a member of the family already PZ, thanks :)
(and I’ve always been mad about cephalapods too – BONUS!)
Came for the cephalopods, stayed for the craic.
I am just here for the bacon and the hot science guys and chicks. Oh, and I learned a lot about that evuluttion and scieence stuff.
Ciao y’all
I come here because I’ve subscribed to your newsfeed, so I probably haven’t been here more than previously. However, I’ve seen your site linked on various other sites more frequently in the past few months, so maybe that made a dent.
I only hang out here in the hope that Richard Dawkins will post something.
I’m only here to get closer to Kwok. He and this PZ guy are real close you know!!!
I’m new (been lurking a little while, reading old stuff – loved
upper class twit of the yearsurvivor. I also read UF and Slactivist. Keep up the good work!long time lurker, first time poster (if I remember correctly).
Like others I first became aware of Pharyngula during the “Expelled” nonsense last year (through Skepticality I think).
This site is now my first check with reality each morning. I am enthralled and challenged by the complexity of the science, incensed by the apologists for religous dogma but saddened by the ignorance of some “believers”. Most of all I am inspired by the work being done by PZ and the other advocates of the “reality based community”.
I think it’s because someone started a rumour that you would be posting nude pics of yourself. And a lot off people are masochists.
;)
Congratulations on the record month.
(.)(.)
Nothing draws an audience like slug sex.:)
We are honing our bullshit-detection kits for april fools day. Alternatively, we are honing our bullshit for april fools day. Oh, and I got a tax return of 10000kr today, somewhat lesser than 2000 dollars.
I came for the science and stayed for the fellow atheists. It’s nice to be able to be openly godless. Oh – and the snail sex with them whipping out their dicks and all.
It’s all us feed readers clicking over for the special “emails below the cut” :)
Then again, maybe PZ is fooling us with the stats. I have no idea what stats are reasonable for this kind of homepage, so I will remain unsure…
I came for the Kwok, I stayed for the rooster.
JAMSHED MOIDU | April 1, 2009 3:17 AM #17
This has to be the most sophisticated April fool ever. The linked website is the most comprehensive parody of Religious nut jobs and conspiracy theorists I have ever seen, by miles. Brilliant sir, you are a comic genius!
http://harunyahya-india.blogspot.com/
I’m here to find out what sinning really is from the trolls/fundies (otherwise I wouldn’t know would I?). We can’t ban them all. Besides, they add a lot of humor to the site. The order should be science first, humor and religious stupidity second.
I heard a malicious rumour that people actually quite like this website and you in turn PZ.
Personally, I’m sticking around until I’ve learned how to pronounce “Pharyngula”.
David L @70…
I forgot to include the links to the wackaloon sites in my reasons for viewing this blog. I am abso-fuckin-lutely certain I would never have seen such idiocy without this site. That, and the strange obsession with bacon.
I come here because it keeps me from doing the boring work I should be working on right now!
I also enjoy the multitude of intelligent people as opposed to the otherwise borderline retards I deal with elsewhere. Even where I work, someone was claiming to have the ability to accurately predict the gender outcome of a pregnancy and tried to back up her ability by telling personal anecdotes… “I just can’t tell with you, but I knew why my child was going to be and what my cousin’s was…”
It makes me cringe when people talk like that!
Liquor.
The Survivor threads were quite entertaining, and there have been a few other persistent new trolls it’s been difficult to ignore. :)
Has it been a year already?
Wow, Expelled certainly got you a lot of new friends.
Came for the snark, stayed for the snark…and science.
It’s depressing, really. I came here to get away from so-called reality tv, in favour of real reality, like.
Also, professorYackle, as a fellow UF fan, what d’you think of the threaded comments there? PZ was thinking of doing that here but the outcry made crackergate look like a tea party (no, it didn’t).
@ 76,
Yeah.
And the catholic chicks.
It’s because we CATHOLICS are looking for a good, hard, steamy, session of tasty OFFENCE. Nothing tickles those anger buds like a good cracker defiling.
I mean, that whole thing with Obama stealing unborn babies to butcher them for stem cells to sling to his Liberal Nazi Scientists (you’d be surprised at how close those Liberal attitudes can bring you to Nazi needs) to make evil frankenstein evolution clones which will try to make everyone gay through Stem Cell assaults – that gave us a nice red thrill…
But PZ Myers can always be relied on for a good cracker-snuff movie…Oh…Oh…OHHHHH!!!! I just wet my angry letter writing campaign kit. Excuse me.
HELP!! How to get out of here? Where is the exit? Psst, please pass this note to the outside world, we are captive here. We are turned into cyberbullets, please help. :)
Came for some evo-devo last January, I think. Stayed for the host and content. Both make me think.
Wowbagger~
The same for me! I learned about PZ from the news article regarding his expulsion from ‘Expelled’; been here ever since.
From there, I learned about Phil Plait, Steve Novella, a number of skeptical podcasts, and finally, my local skeptical meetup, ‘Skeptics at the Pub’.
Who would have thought ‘Expelled’ would be good for something?
Nicely played Rooke
I come around for the occasional sight of Nemo appealing to authority.
“Cold Fusion”? It might be, it might not be. Last I heard nobody was really sure. Thing is, you set the equipment up just right and apply voltage, you get something to looks to some like fusion.
Thing is, while you do get more energy out than you put in -like with nukes etc., you don’t get all that much more energy. May even be an artifact of the available measuring devices, falling within the margin of error.
Additional for Nemo: They have found actual rocks from outer space crashing into the Earth. Which can mean only one thing, God’s a slob.
I have been posting way more than I usually have done on here simply because it has been so damn funny, interesting and educational.
Sex, Survivor, bacon, violence and science – its been one heck of a month of Happy Monkey in my opinion
Keep up the good work!
No pressure on the figures for next month then?
:)
Oh,and of course there’s always the hope that the Naked Bunny will take me under her wing…:-)
Better than to hope for the end of the world anyway….:D
“Oh,and of course there’s always the hope that the Naked Bunny will take me under her wing…:-)”
There is your answer!
Where else can you go for winged bunnies, let alone naked ones.
I lurk, because I am a /b/tard. I feel like if I commented, any chan-refrences will either be misunderstood or offensive. I really love your blog, though, and I read every post, and even most of the comments. You attracted a smart crowd, and I find that even if I wanted to comment, somebody already said what I wanted to say.
I look up to you. I have just started college, and I plan on getting some sort of biology degree. I know this will sound cheesey, but somewhere in the back of mind, I want to help fight the good fight alongside you (and all the other major players, of course). But right now, I’m just some guy. I’ll check back in with you in 8 years ;) Maybe longer, because I am in the Army. It is tough to be in the military AND be an atheist AND go to college. But you inspire me every day, in all three categories.
I get a lot of weird stares from other soldiers (pretty much a synonym for Xian), because they look over at my screen and see all the weird shit you post, and all the science, atheism, squids etc. mixed together. I don’t bring it up, and neither do they (except for two chaplains who found me reading Ancestor’s Tale, and your blog… but thats another story). I really love seeing that big red A every morning, it makes me feel like everything will turn out well in this culture war, as long as we keep up the fight. I’m getting it tattooed on my chest in a few weeks, it should go well with my new (custom) dog tags that I ordered. My old one’s said NO-REL-PREF (no religious preference) which I found offensive, for obvious reasons. My new ones say FLY-SPA-MON :)
Thanks for everything.
tl;dr = I all but sucked PZ’s dick, in a longish thank-you post.
@JAMSHED MOIDU
Way to go Jamshed! How far is your head crammed up Yahya’s backside, you sycophantic loon?
A little help please?
Haha, how silly! I don’t have wings!
Oh, wait…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sedary_raymaker/2207203837/in/set-72157604027464719/
*cringes at his old hairdo*
I believe that you’ve been getting a lot of love from Stumbleupon lately. I was here anyway, but I’ve stumbled upon several of your posts again this month when using stumbleupon. I don’t think that I used to get so many stumbles directed at your posts before.
I don’t know why but for some reason I thought naked Bunny is male despite what the images the name conjures.
The reason Pharyngula gets millions of readers a month is because, as Matt Nisbet constantly reminds us, PZ is such a poor communicator.
Found you last year (or the year before that?) via digg article and have added an RSS feed but find myself coming here more and more to read the responses too. If it’s too much I can cut my visitations back to once a day.
ugh
that sentence above sucked.
@ 63 – WOOT????
Came for the snacks (trolls) stayed for the snark. And have learned soooooo much more than I ever thought possible about evolution and science (not my major in college).
It’s all those sexy cephalopod pictures you keep posting. Got to get our daily pr0n.
I have not been reading or posting here at all. I deny this utterly, even, and I want to make absolutely clear, if there is evidence that proves I have been. So there. With knobs on.
The above must be true because I have lived long enough to see Pete Rooke post something sane. What next? Dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria etc?
It’s too much, argh! it’s all too much!
Louis
If thats the case I would like to run away and hide under a middle-sized meteorite right now…..
LOL
It’s the next best thing to knowing interesting people. In person, I mean.
High numbers not surprising. The thread about sexism really got the dames fired up.
Like a few others I also came during the expelled fiasco, though I had heard of pharyngula before that when reading the God Delusion.
HA HA, April fools. Now we all leave today.
Came for Expelled, got active just prior to Crackergate, and now stay for the SIWOTI, purty pictures of cephalopods, bacon and booze. And the occasional science.
“What did I do this time?”
I know what you did last month. I have the pictures. Send money.
A Robert Johnson classic,by the Stones,for bedtime….
Nitenite…
I came for the atheism. I return for the beard.
Dawww.
Meany.
I will give you hugs and spankings anyway, because I am cruelly kind.
What – bunnies have wings now? What have you science-types done this time? Is there no end to your meddling?
Still, it’d shut up those creotards clamouring for a crocoduck…
I woke up this morning and realized this is all wrong, so wrong. I am dropping my rss feed, going back to church, praying for forgiveness, and only reading Ken Ham, AiG, UD and other faith based blogs from now on, and moving, moving my family to Utah or Alaska or someplace safe. I’ve seen the light, the earth is really only 6000 years old if you only think about it hard enough, and all this sciencey stuff… I mean… why isn’t there new life in my peanut butter and why is the banana perfectly shaped? What has science done for us anyway? Everybody wake up and smell the coffee!
Well, that’s about .03% of the population right there.
Don’t blame me – I’ve been here all along. Came over from the old Pharyngula blog when you moved to ScienceBlogs.
Meh. It’s a better read than Phil’s blog most times.
JC
Obviously it’s all the Google searches for Snail Porn.
I’m sorry – I just view your site too often.
@117: You beat me to it.
‘Tis for the Geist and the Volksgeist of atheism. No contradiction there, is there?
Normally, I’m here for the sexy cephalopods, but I must admit that the Kwok meltdown had me coming here more often than usual. :p
Well, I’m here… wait, first of April?
Since it’s this day, I’m here because I was told the Second Coming would take place in a Pharyngula comment thread in 2012. I’m just here a bit early.
If it wasn’t this exact day, I would be here to remind myself that there really are people who seriously believe weird and bad things (the Pope: he rejects your reality and substitutes his own!), and that there really are sane, sensible and skeptical people.
Exactly how many viewers of Pharyngula are out here? Perhaps we can even hold meetings some time – for pharyngula vieweres.
I started about the time of Crackergate, stayed for the discussions of science, rocknroll, cars, psychedelia, comix, stupidity and psychopathic religiosity. As an atheist, punk rockin’, comix fanboy, rowdy, bourbon-sippin’, logic-lovin’ science geek (not accredited, but passionate nonetheless) I have found a place with more like-minded types than I could have imagined. The fact that we’re worldwide is a warm comfort.
I learn and am enlightened every day, and the strength of some intellects here is astonishing, my logic abilities are enhanced by just reading some posters here.
Procrastinating.
Please ban me before I lose my job.
I come here nearly every day because I’m convinced it makes me smarter.
Laughing at the creationists is just an extra-added bag o’fun.
Bacon.
…and tankards of Nerd’s brew, of course.
I blame my cubiclemate for introducing me to this addictive blog. I blame him for getting me hooked on the Skeptics’ Guide podcasts as well.
I should probably buy him lunch as a thank-you.
I’ve been lurking here for over a year now but don’t comment very often. I think this is the most entertaining and informative blog I’ve found and I just can’t stay away. Thank you PZ!
I was introduced by the website http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/
I second #127
You, Orac, and Starbucks are how I start my morning.
Watch out, Marcus B @ 94!
Stumbly love might lead to horizontal gene transfer.
You’ve been eating Christian babies again!
Oh and the Narwhal song.
Oh, Yes! The Narwhal Song… I almost forgot!
Mario
FAIL.
Rahne, you utter git. I had only just stopped humming that and you have to go and remind me.
(plots revenge)
Ring ring, ring ring, ring ring ring – Bananaphone!
You had me at “Happy Monkey”.
Me? I’m not doing nothing, Big Man, honest….it was like that when I got here……a big boy did it and ran away!!!
It’s usually at the top of the Google reader recommended feeds.
I’m not sure, but I think it’s because of the specially trained squad of creationists. I hear they’ve been trained to ignore reason so they can download websites like this in hopes of draining all the rational thought from the interwebz.
Oddly enough, my record month was January. Traffic’s been drifting back down, regressing to the mean, so to speak, since then.
I keep coming back because I have a Leica M7 Rangefinder body to sell and I’ve heard from several alumni of my prestigious pre-school that you’re in the market for one.
I’m a naturally-occurring ASI* that arose as an emergent property of the net. But I’m stuck in a Seed farm server that only serves this blog, so I can’t go anywhere else…
(Presses face up against textfield pane, pounds on it in futility…)
LET ME OUT!
*Artificial (Semi-)Intelligence
Its my fault. I had a boring month. :D
I’m here for the cephalopods.
That and the SIWOTI keeps me coming.
I stayed because all the knitting links and the occasional Dawkins posts are just too cool.
The other science-y and atheist-y stuff is good, too.
You just need more bug pics.
*shrug* To each his/her own, I guess. I have to admit being with Mario here; the “‘nother stoopid religobot” posts are…not my favorites. Similarly, troll-stomping gets kinda boring (to me). ‘Course it’s PZ’s blog and he can damn well post whatever the hell he wants. Personally, I showed up pre-ScienceB
orglogs and stayed for the cool biology, but I do not presume to prescribe.I will say that the (perceived) recent preponderance of religion-bashing has made me more reluctant than I used to be about recommending the blog to my (biology) students. I still do, but with ass-covering caveats aplenty.
Funny that people keep bringing up UF. I got banned from UF for posting updates on Crackergate.
So, I moved my snark here.
I’ve decided to promote the Theory of Intelligent Falling (link on my name)
March was a big month for creotardism I guess. The two science blogs I follow (this one and Bad Astronomy) both seemed to have lots of interesting posts and kept me pretty busy wasting time :)
Learning about all kind of suckers ;)
Sven DiMilo
Personally, I showed up pre-ScienceBorglogs and stayed for the cool biology, but I do not presume to prescribe.
I will say that the (perceived) recent preponderance of religion-bashing has made me more reluctant than I used to be about recommending the blog to my (biology) students. I still do, but with ass-covering caveats aplenty.
I can certainly appreciate that view, but being in the midwest, I don’t get many chances to vent about the religious stupidity all around me. This website keeps me sane by giving me an outlet to ridicule that which isn’t socially acceptable to ridicule. I’m sure that there are plenty of science sites that don’t mention religion at all; perhaps if your students are too sensitive to such issues, they should find them. Of course, I don’t recall if your students are high school or college; I can imagine the level of concern would be greater given the former. No snark intended.
Fred
March was huge because of Survivor Pharyngula.
paranoia
My part in 153 starts with “I can certainly…” Blockquote fail!
I started reading Pharyngula when PZ abandoned T.O.
Came for the atheism and science, stayed for, well, everything.
This blog is responsible for all sorts of evil, like inspiring me to enroll in the local university, going for a third Bachelor of Science, this time in Biology. (first 2 in Physics and Astronomy – also have a Masters of Engineering, but who cares …) This evil is responsible for eating up my spare time with classes and studying and also for redirecting my long term goals towards the life sciences. What an evil thing to do to a 45 year old.
:)
I’m a very lonely person so I go here and pretend you’re all talking to me. If the internet didn’t exist I’d just have the TV on the whole day like an old person.
I usually visit 200 times a day. Someone please help me
It’s an addiction, I can’t help it!
Must be the invertebrate sex.
The foibles of squid amourousity (the poor guy who missed and implanted himself) was highlighted on NPR’s ‘Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me’ last weekend.
Gay Mafia
2,296,911 visits
This isn’t an April Fools joke is it?
You had an accident and a lot of believers were checking in to see if you died.
I think it was the Oklahoma Bullshit that may have pulled some extra hits.
Or April Fools >.<
Fred:
I can relate 100%; I did 6 years in Stillwater, Oklahoma. And I should clarify that I do enjoy many of the conversations that develop in comments under all kinds of posts. The point of my comment was, basically, that YMMV of course, but if the blog was all atheism all the time then I for one wouldn’t be here as often. And that’s what the post title asked.
What are YOU doing here?
cuttlefish blog visits (April) / pharyngula blog visits (April) = .00202141
*sigh* Two millimyers.
? I don’t think PZ is a fan of Dallas or the Eagles…
Where else can I find serious science and serious woo doing daily battle for Universal Domination and school curricula? Why, the debris field alone is staggering beyond belief!
For me the big draw is all the commenters. Educated commenters, dumb-ass commenters, thoughtful, insightful commenters, honestly seeking commenters, tremulously rabid commenters, commenters from other planets, from higher (and lower) planes of existence, from small, rural churches and, of course, the comments that could only come from Invisible Supernatural Spooks possessing knowledge far beyond mere mortal understanding. Of course, there is the hot mollusk porn. And the bacon.
More bacon, please.
I am also new to your blog and congrats on generating such interesting content.
I’ve been stopping by several times a day. Love the insight and science. I look through many of the science blogs. My obsession with topics on evolution started a little over a year ago, when I was faced with some creation arguments and I couldn’t easily refute them. I can now. Thanks in part to your blog and others here on Sb.
Daily dose of snark.
Let’s get back to the Tangled Bank, please! I will coordinate one if you like.
And I get few other opportunities to start sentences with “And.”
I heard there would be snacks.
I show up every morning, looking for snacks.
Instead, I get science, atheism, and humor.
I leave every morning hungry for snacks.
I think it’s a fair trade-off.
You have to be cruel to be kind… but only in the right measure. Overall, it’s a very good sign!
BTW, all the cold fusion talk gave me a blast of nostalgia: Recall that there was a brief window of fascination and hope between the original stories about Pons’ and Fleischmann’s work and the emerging consensus regarding its bogosity. Scientists may have been skeptical from the get-go, but the positive articles in responsible media led many of us technically literate nonscientists to briefly hope CF might be real. Remember that CF came hot (you should excuse that word) on the heels of the breakthroughs in “high-temperature” superconductivity (of which I was more aware than many, owing to the fact that Paul Chu was working at my alma mater, U. of Houston). I recall thinking that if CF were true, the combination of cheap, safe, easy-to-build fusion “batteries” with practical lossless conductors would utterly change the world.
Then, of course, it all changed: P&F were debunked, and it became clear that however wonderful the supeconductivity work was, it wasn’t going to lead to pervasive use of superconductors in everyday (room-temperature) devices anytime soon, and I was dumped out of my sci-fi Camelot daydreams right back into… 1989. [sigh]
Re the traffic bump, don’t look at me: I check Pharyngula several times daily, but I’ve been doing that for years now, ever since I first discovered the place… so I can’t be part of any delta.
I agree with Steve_C, it was Survivor Pharyngula… at least, that’s what Google Trends seems to suggest.
@Eric,
With respect to the cold fusion question, your mention of the June time frame made me wonder if you were actually referring to the inertial confinement fusion device at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (which is definitely not cold fusion). If you want details I suggest you check out the National Ignition Facility website:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif/
My name is Michelle and I’m a Pharyngula addict…..
There you go PZ, I’ve finally admitted it, I cannot start my day without Pharyngula and coffee.
I don’t comment much either because half the time I’m laughing too hard to type and the other half I spend looking up things I’ve learnt.
Oh, and that nipple photograph of yours also got me hooked, hehehehehe
Came for the godlessness, stayed for the giggles. The comments here are the smartest and the funniest anywhere. PZ isn’t bad either. He’s a graceful and prolific writer who is probably AVOIDING WRITING A DAMN BOOK.
(Sorry for the caps, but I know how it is to avoid writing by writing. In fact, I’m doing it right now.)
2,296,911 visits
C’mon, it’s obvious, isn’t it? Kwok obviously had everyone he ever went to high school with (as well as their spouses and anyone else even remotely related that someone here, however obscurely, may have heard of at some point)stop in to read about your ruthless stalking of him.
Came for the science & cultural commentary, stayed so I could laugh at Ben Stein (for a change).
BTW, re:
…and…
…let me just thank the several people who recommended the Dogfish Head 120-Minute IPA. I managed to score a bottle last weekend — it was largely on the say-so of this august body that I was willing to pay as much for a single as you usually pay for a premium sixpack — and was rewarded with one of the most transcendently delightful taste experiences of my life. I’ve enjoyed other Dogfish Head products in the past, but this just made me purr. Thanks, Pharyngula!
Also, I went to my local brewers’ shop last weekend and purchased homebrewing equipment, plus a Willamette hops rhizome, which I will probably plant this weekend or next. Yet another example of Pharyngula’s power to motivate good in my life.
Came for the science & cultural commentary, stayed so I could laugh at Ben Stein (for a change).
Wait…you mean we don’t get paid to be here?
I suppose I should stop waiting for the check…
Bacon. Oral sex. Cherry-flavoured gunpowder. But not necessarily in that order.
But there are times when it’s SCIENCE. But the comments; dang, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a more diverse and learned group of folk, anywhere, ever. Thank you Dr. Myers and thank you all, each and every one.
I’m here for the cheese dip.
Was that enough to get another flat screen TV? Or defray some college tuition? I first visited just before you were expelled and was there in real time when you were blogging about it, and have been hooked ever since. My vocabulary (pretty good to begin with for an English major) has been increased, and I learned lot about snail dicks, Overton windows, merkins, and bacon.
The atheism and science makes me world a little clearer.
I come here because it’s fucking brilliant.
Where else could you get a get a blog so lightly moderated yet so full of smart, witty people, talking about subjects which exctite me so much?
I can sublimate my rage at the bits of life which frustrate me, such as the global stupidity epidemic, by being as rude as I can to creationists.
I have learned so much from the other posters here.
Unfortunately I have also spent way too long waiting for the chance to say something snarky that it is like an addiction. And this is one addiction I find impossible to give up.
And PZ is one of my great heroes – his writing is brilliant, better and better. Can’t wait for the book. How about simply publishing some of your best and worst
posts, yours and ours?
Fucking brilliant – did I say that already?
Well done PZ. Pharyngula is some sort of masterpiece.
And you can say fuck.
I know you were linked on fark.com at least once, if not more times. To be honest, that’s how I became a regular reader, though this is my first comment.
I first came here from the Christopher Hitchens website (buildupthatwall, I think it’s named). That site also led me to Dawkins. Hitchens is particular about the links he provides, so I figured you were probably worth a look. Now you have your very own bookmark. The ratio of good stuff to crap is better than most, and it fosters intellectual growth. And, of course, there’s the all-important criteria of being entertaining.
No, I’m not unemployed…yet.
sit around at home
nothing to do
stare at the walls
stare at each other
wait til we die
stare at each other
wait til we die
I agree with Lana@178. Discovered crackergate via Dawkins, and stayed for the intelligent and hilarious comments. I waste way too much time reading this while at work. Good thing I’m the administrator so it doesn’t show up on browsing reports.
I for one, found you in March and I visit every day! You’re beautiful!!!
We are your mindless army of infidels, ready to tweak a stupid poll, desecrate holy symbols and bash wakaloonies with just a command from you…. Or thats what the believers say.
Acutally Patricia starts the batches and handles the fresh stuff. If they get overripe, like for Dr. MAJeff’s celebration, I have the PPE to pour it safely. Nothing says mad scientist quite like a fuming tankard of grog.
“What did I do this time?”
Crashed your car.
I had no idea so many of this blog’s fans are gearheads.
Heard of you when you got expelled, but Dawkins got in: the irony was too delicious to ignore, and now I can’t get enough. Also crackers. Also evolution (LOVED the article on elephants), and clear thinking on how believing in the sky fairy is as rational as believing in the tooth fairy. Also snark. And poetry. And snarky poetry! All good.
I found Pharyngula and blogs in general via the Dover Trial. So I’ve been here nigh on forever. Get off my lawn!
Bingo.
Or maybe the geek population is on the increase.
I prefer option II.
I learn stuff. And then I get bacon recipes.
As a student, I’m the next nearest thing to unemployed. And while I should currently be revising trusts law, I do, indeed, waste a lot of time cycling through my list of bookmarks.
Been here since before SciBlogs.
You’re getting to be a habit with me.
I think Walton, that your posts are getting better..unless we get on to librarianism that is..
Just lovin on your awesomeness… I promise! Anybody who lays the smackdown on theistards makes a loyal viewer out of me.
I’ve been enjoying the wonderful entertainment provided by the delightful Mr Kwok.
Actually, I did briefly consider becoming a librarian after I graduate. But I rather suspect you were referring to libertarianism.
Because pretty octopus/stupidity bashing > revising for finals.
This is a trick question right? Remember Survivor? Between that and the place being knee deep in trolls this month was bound to be a record breaker.
It’s BSG.
And Family Guy
And helmets.
Here’s the answer as to why PZ is so popular: 42
I’ve been reading for 2-3 years now. It is part of my morning wakeup ritual (check the headlines, weather, cartoons, and the blogs – usually Pharyngula and Bad Astronomy are #1 and #2). I don’t comment much because I’m not sure I can quite keep up with the rough-and-tumble, and I run more along the lines of “be thought a fool than open my mouth and prove it”. Besides, the exalted company who frequent this neighborhood and hang out on the street corners flicking their switchblades: Sastra, Cuttlefish, MAJeff (congrats, by the way, on passing your defense), the good Reverend Chimp, and many, many others, are far more articulate than I am; I have to conserve my best language skills for my math lectures. Normally I won’t say much, or very often, but I’m always here enjoying both the science and the snark. Happy Monkey!
Eric asks: “Could some one tell me what impact would cold fusion have on our country…”
It wouls be enormous. It cannot be overstated. It would change the way we live.
“…and whether the upcoming test this June will be successful?”
No, because cold fusion is a frigging pipe dream.
I COME HERE AS A PENANCE ORDERED BY MY PRIEST. THE BANDWIDTH I CONSUME PREVENTS THE ATHEIST MESSAGE FROM REACHING AND POLLUTING AN INNOCENT MIND.
AS A FORMER ATHEIST SINNER MY MIND WAS COMPLETELY POLLUTED BUT JESUS IS WASHING IT CLEAN CELL BY CELL
boo
It’s really simple PZ. You rock and you kick-ass!
Regards all the way from Arabia.
Pauline in UK #44
Hoping you are still here: Mudflats is the boss and Brian and Brenda are almost as cute as Cephalopods.
I do not want my mind washed clean, Sam-I-Am!
I’ve spent the last few decades trying to stuff more shit in there!
“MY MIND WAS COMPLETELY POLLUTED BUT JESUS IS WASHING IT CLEAN CELL BY CELL”
It won’t take him long to wash that couple of cells. Wish he washed your glasses too so you could see the CAPSLOCK key.
Walton:
Or just maybe he was trying to avoid referring to L-word-arianism (and thus summoning demons) by means of a clever, but deliberate, “error.” I suggest you search AnthonyK’s cheek for tongue. ;^)
@ Jesus washes your mind clean, #212
Does he use boiling water or do you always blush such a lovely color of anger?
Bill D @ 180: You’re welcome! BTW: It seems that a bit later this month (week?) Stone is releasing a new Russian Imperial Stout. Those things tend to be evil…. I can’t wait!
Either that, or it is this years 01Apr joke – you can never be sure with those guys.
Jc
Last month, religious ‘ideas’ gave me even more gastro-esophageal reflux than usually, and it’s really bad for the gums too. Pharyngula is my Lourdes.
Great! My brain could use a good scrubbing! It’s built up a lot of gunk because of the years of indoctrination.
Who’s got the bone saw and steel wool?
re:212
He’s happy to be brainwashed?
Jesus washes your mind clean
…and April Fools to you too.
(Need. Better. Trolls.)
Not brainwashed, mind-washed. He’s a dualist.
But wait…his mind’s got cells?
I’m here in case you need a gun hand.
</inside joke>
Yeah, don’t cross us if you’re afraid of a little automatic weapons fire.
I COME HERE AS A PENANCE ORDERED BY MY PRIEST. THE BANDWIDTH I CONSUME PREVENTS THE ATHEIST MESSAGE FROM REACHING AND POLLUTING AN INNOCENT MIND.
AS A FORMER ATHEIST SINNER MY MIND WAS COMPLETELY POLLUTED BUT JESUS IS WASHING IT CLEAN CELL BY CELL
What kind of theology is that, anyways? His priest wants him to do what? Why again? Is it possible that priests can be even more ignorant of how the internet works than human sexuality? And Jesus does what with his cells?
Dumb. So dumb.
Reminds me of a question I once asked a Mormon: “If God really wants to save my soul, then why in hell would He–knowing that I don’t brook arguments from stupid people well, send a moron like you to proselytise to me?”
Seriously, it’s like tossing a drowning man a string of spaghetti and patting yourself on the back for your magnanimity.
It’s the ambience, dude. Tentacles, bacon, assorted sciency stuff and social commentary, troll huntin’….what’s not to like?
I think the Pharygula:Survivor! episodes were a big crowd-pleaser, encouraging Audience Participation; produced in evidence, all those posts from habitual lurkers coming out of stealth mode to sit down and be counted.
Nemo wrote:
“Cold fusion remains bullshit until proven otherwise. Don’t hold your breath for that.”
It has been proven otherwise. Cold fusion has been replicated thousands of times by over 200 labs such as Los Alamos and BARC. You can read all about this at any university library. I have a collection of 1,200 peer-reviewed journal papers about cold fusion which I copied from the libraries at Los Alamos and Georgia Tech.
You will find a list of 3,500 papers on this subject, and 500 full text papers here:
http://lenr-canr.org/
Excess heat, tritium, neutrons and helium from cold fusion have been observed by thousands of researchers worldwide, often at high signal to noise ratios (thousands of times above background). There is not the slightest chance all of the observations are experimental error.
Whether the effect can be made into a practical source of energy remains to be seen.
I’m one of the ilk, what more can I say :)
I came here after reading the God Delusion. I’am neither a scientist or a student and I had no higher education; the reason I visit Pharyngula is simple: stimulating my brain, training reason, improve critical thinking, get arguments against religion.
BTW I’d like to ask for a favour for the non english native speakers as I am; You, the Pharyngulates very often use abreviations, references etc. which, as I think, for somebody who is not born and raised in the U,S are just not understandable. It would be very helpfull and kind if you could (at least from time to time)give some expalnation hint for those who are not so strong in the english language but interested in Pharyngula. I feel sometimes quite sad, when I read the comments to a post and just can’t undestand it because of the above mentioned. Diccionaries are not always helpfull. So, sorry for my english and best regards to the Pharyngula community. Appreciate your work Prof. Meyers
Came for the science, stayed for the feeling of atheist community.
Cool thread to read. I first heard of blog because of crackergate, became a fan after Expelled , got intrigued by the squid, and started posting thanks to Survivor: Pharyngula .
But why am I here? To meet hot chicks, of course.
Antonio,
define: abbreviation
where abbreviation is the relevant acronym/abbreviation, entered into google will usually give the meaning, or at least a list of possible meanings, for most abbreviations. Where there is a choice, context will usually give pointers as to which is relevant.
A FOOL SAYS IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD. OPEN YOUR MIND TO JESUS AND LET HIM WASH IT CLEAN
Y0U WON’T BE THE SAME AGAIN
Of those visits, how many were unique IP addresses? Or does this website not keep track of them?
Fixed it for you.
It’s BSG.
And Family Guy
And helmets.
and BACON
…don’t forget!
JOSH
YOUR MIND IS CLOSED TO THE TRUTH. OUR ELDERS WILL PRAY FOR YOU IN OUR CHURCH
and BACON
…don’t forget!
BACON…mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Only the Elders?
PZ, JWYMD won’t stop shouting. Why don’t you disemvowel him until we see some lower case.
Personally I use Mental FlossTM to remove those nasty traces of relgion that get stuck in the brain while reading this blog.
Go the Antipodeans!
Another Damned Kiwi. Kindly introduced to the blog by the Skeptics Guide to the Universe Podcast, and the whole Expelled thing.
Kinda ironic that Ben Stein has been the catalyst for turning so many people onto Pharyngula.
OUR CHURCH
now THAT’S the kind of brainwash I can really use.
Another Damned Kiwi
rly?
Just moved to Wellington (Newtown) from CA (State of).
nearby perchance?
Unless those are the Elders. You really need to be clearer.
“Oh, can’t I have just a little bit of peril?”
“No. It’s much to perilous.”
I might be movin’ to Montana soon
Just to raise me up a crop of Dental Floss
Raisin’ it up
Waxen it down
In a little white box
I can sell uptown
By myself I wouldn’t
Have no boss,
But I’d be raisin’ my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin’ my lonely
Dental Floss
Well I just might grow me some bees
But I’d leave the sweet stuff
For somebody else…
but then, on the other hand
I’d Keep the wax N’ melt it down
Pluck some Floss N’ swish it aroun’
I’d have me a crop
An’ it’d be on top
(that’s why I’M movin’ to Montana)
Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon
(yes I am)
Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a mennil-toss flykune
I’m pluckin’ the ol’ Dennil Floss
That’s growin’ on the prairie
Pluckin’ the floss!
I plucked all day an’ all nite an’ all Afternoon…
I’m ridin’ a small tiny hoss
(His name is MIGHTY LITTLE)
He’s a good hoss
Even though He’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
He’s a bit dinky to strap a big saddle or
Blanket on anyway
Any way I’m pluckin’ the ol’ Dennil Floss
Even if you think it is a little silly, folks
I don’t care if you think it’s silly, folks
I don’t care if you think it’s silly, folks
I’m gonna find me a horse
Just about this big
An’ ride him all along the border line
With a Pair of heavy-duty
Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand
Every other wrangler would say
I was mighty grand
By myself I wouldn’t
Have no boss
But I’d be raisin’ my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin’ my lonely Dental Floss
Raisin’ my lonely Dental Floss
Well I might Ride along the border
With my tweezers gleamin’
In the moon-lighty night
And then I’d Get a cuppa cawfee
N’ give my foot a push…
Just me ‘n the pymgy pony
Over by the Dennil Floss Bush
And then I might just Jump back on
And ride Like a cowboy
Into the dawn to Montana
Movin’ to Montana soon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
Movin’ to Montana soon
Pharyngula brings hope to the world.
Simply put – science, snark, and a sense of community encourage us.
For those of us in the US, the anti-intellectual anti-reason anti-science pro-religion fascists have been ruling the roost and splintering our culture ever since Reagan. Thanks for being here as partial antidote to the fervent insanity so long festering here….
An idea: what about a ‘greatest hits’ ‘remember when’ post recounting past highlights? When is pharyngula’s birthday anyway?
Well, I am reading Richard Dawkin’s “The God Delusion” in which he mentions your blog. I checked it out a couple of weeks ago and have been hooked. Keep up the humor and education…we all need one or the other.
Bacon!! Of course!
Drinkable Bacon
I’ve made and had both a Bacontini and a bacon Bloody Mary (with real bacon mind you).
Bacontini – bad
Bacon Bloody – fanfuckingtastic
And what is the preferred method of introducing the Holy Gateway Meat to this already most marvelous of cocktails?
I just had my brain washed
And I can’t do a THING with it.
OK – I admit – I could go to that church.
A fool says in his heart there is no god. A Wise Man shouts it from the mountaintops.
JC
Let’s see, I came here right around the time PZ agreed to be interviewed in a little film called “Crossroads” *cough* bullshit *cough*
I stay for the science, the creotard bashing, pushback of the religious right toxicity so prevalent, the great commenters (winks at Sastra), and the secondary sex characteristics. *ruffles PZ’s beard*
And the bacon.
Survivor: Pharyngula was hilarious.
And in case you needed more gifts, Dr. Nisbet keeps giving. One might figure he’d stop while he’s behind, but I guess if the same technique keeps failing, obviously you’re not trying hard enough. Circuit City’s finally gone though, so no cheap plasma TVs from their bye-bye sale.
Science, atheism, D&D and Lovecraft references, assorted other geek/nerd talk, witty and insightful comments, the poetic stylings of Cuttlefish. What’s not to love?
No kings,
Robert
Use it as a stirring stick a la celery. You’ll need a fairly thick and not too undercooked slice. Well patted to remove excess grease. Plus I like really spicy bloodies so that helps.
I agree, to be absolute on the matter is foolish. Rather one should say that there is no evidence to support any particular deity. So without any reason to believe, then there should be the presumption of atheism. If you have any evidence to the contrary, please bring it and change the world with it.
Ah! Now we know who’s behind the conficker worm. It’s Pee Zed, trying to boost his hits… ;-)
I’m going with the Reddit hypothesis. Somebody has been posting a bunch of your stuff to the Atheism reddit, and I’ve been putting a few things on the Skeptic reddit.
Granted, you’ve got Google Analytics on your page… go look at the damn referrer reports!
I’m here not only for you, PZ, but also for the many intelligent commentors you’ve attracted.
Rarely comment, often here. Slow times in the lab, hurry up and wait. Came for the science; stayed for the giggles and WTF moments.
Chimpy, must I keep cleaning up after you?
… a record traffic month: 2,296,911 visits. What did I do this time?
Why ask us? C’mon, just who is it who has the numbers about which posts got how many visits?
In the immortal whine of Andrew Schlafly: show us the data!
I’m an atheist blogger. Before I write a post, I come to Pharyngula find out if, and how badly, I’ve been scooped.
Answer is usually: yes, and very. :)
This is the best atheist blog!
@220 – JackC “Stone is releasing a new Russian Imperial Stout.”
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this news! I love all things Stone Brewery, especially their Russian Imperial Stout.
I’m lost. I was looking for the argument room.
I came here because of talk.origins and the John twins. They booted me out.
Whatever, I came for the cookies. Crackers. I meant crackers.
THE beer for situations where glass won’t work …
Colorado Canned Beer
@MissPrism:
NOOOOO *tries to fight urge to sing, but fails* My cellular, bananular phooooooooone!
*vows revenge*
Why, it is for your irresistible physical beauty and scintillating and delicate charm…
I discovered Pharyngula around the time of the Dover trial, and stayed for the Expelled brouhaha, science and Cuttlefish.
Me, I come for the car crashes.
Good science,
salient topics,
gets-to-the-point.
Knowing commentary from
smart people,
cool people,
good, kind, thoughtful people.
Atheists.
Sherry – That beer sounds tasty but they don’t carry it in my state. I’ll have to lobby for it.
have been a lurker for over 5 years. starting from your pharyngula.com (org?) years. I don’t remember how I got to your site but might have been butterfliesandwheels.com. Now I visit once a day (at least) for the daily dose of rational thoughts.
1) Intelligent atheists who take no prisoners.
2) Cephalopods
3) Puns
4) Australians
5) Vagitarians
6) Bacon
Interesting how many people(like me) came here after seeing the link in “The God Delusion”.
Came to have a look,lurked for a year or longer,loved it,learned that the US is fucked,and got a million good reasons to learn more,and get better.
These days its more like “Cheers” now.
I’m just so goddamned bored.
What am I doing here?
Lurking, as usual.
I must say though, I quite enjoyed Survivor: Pharyngula
There’s a link to Pharyngula on godvoordommen.nl*, which I followed about a year ago. I’ve been coming back almost daily ever since.
* For those who appreciate a good pun:
‘God voor dommen’ (god for the stupid) sounds almost exactly like ‘godverdomme’, meaning ‘god damn it’.
You pay more than those nerds at t.o. and that guy at Evolving Thoughts.
Thanks, Rev. I say fucking yum to this. You rock as usual.
I used to lurk here. I was busy for a year or so, but have just become involuntarily idle. (Thanks, credit crunch!)
I bumped into the Schlafly/Cit+ lulz while googling randomly a week ago, and thought ‘wonder what PZM made of this?’
Nice to be back. :)
..also, I’m a CyberBullet who likes working for the biggest, baddest CyberPistol in the West.
… the bacon’s pretty good here as well.
And what’s this ‘cold fusion’ BS? Its a frikken huge magnetic bottle with a small sun in it, or GTFO!
So just what does Dawkins have to say in The God Delusion about Pharyngula?
Why am I here? Because someone on the Atheism vs. Christianity group kept quoting this blog, and I decided to read it for myself.
Really PZ, if we can have a 1000+ posts on bacon, lesbians and oral sex in an open thread without a major flame war, there is only one conclusion why we all post here: TO HAVE FUN. Thank you for creating that environment.
I come so often having been inspired to solidify my views wrt theology. It was the sole scienceblog I had bookmarked. (Now it’s Pharyngula and Good Math, Bad Math. Who knows what it’ll be in the future.)
Furthermore, I agree with #158!
The invertebrate sex helps.
I haven’t been able to read Dawkins yet. I frequently hit the library, wary as a student to dish out money for my own copy of TGD.
The comments tend to add to my vocabulary!
I lurked for the longest time (at least since mid2006), then in Jan ’09 GMBM inspired me to sign up for that TypePad and now I use it everywhere I go in scienceblogs. I comment when I decide it’s salient. (This decision may be questionable. As may the dates be.)
For the refreshment.
PZ’s limitless charm and clarity, the nifty squid pix and fairly clever banter (even if it is considerably contaminated with wusses), among lots of other fascinating and often unpredictable tidbits go down like that first swallow of cold beer after a hard day.
Aaaaahhhhh…..
Thanks PZ!
I’ve been lurking about for approximately a year and eight months. I really do enjoy the articles you throw up here on your blog. The most enjoyable in my opinion are the ones in which you really slam religion. I didn’t really find your blog until Phil Plait mentioned you a few times and I stopped being lazy and got myself over here. What’s really enjoyable is just reading the comments, you got a lot of people here with good humor. Who knows, I might take the time and make a post or three in the future.
Been reading you since old-school Usenet. :-)
Thanks for the info and/or comments about cold fusion. I do appreciate the thoughtful attention to this question.
i just started reading your website a week ago, found out about it from the skeptics guide to the universe podcast. i’m instantly hooked!
I’m late getting to this discussion. My day isn’t complete unless I peek into Pharyngula. Your articles are interesting and keep me informed. It’s like a continuing education for me. I like the lively discussions on religion and the light you shed on the rampant hypocrisy and stupidity that continues to thrive out there despite the presence of reason, and of course, I think you are just one hellava nice guy. – My only question is, Why would anyone live in Minnesota after Eugene?
PZ asked:
What didn’t you do?!
Among other things:
– You hosted Survivor Pharyngula.
– You had open threads and let commentors run amok, hither and yon, and into space with Starbuck and Adama.
– You posted snail sex videos and photos.
– You bashed believers.
– You blasphemed.
– You were smart.
– You were snarky.
– You were sciencey.
– You got e-mails.
– You were accused of stalking and asked for camera compensation.
– You had commentors who were super-smart, knowledgeable, and witty.
– You had commentors who were stupid, deranged, and insipid.
– You roared rude things about the pope and his church.
– You noted nice things about Dawkins.
– You framed Nisbet.
– You ranted about politicians in Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, and Michigan.
– To took on some non-controversial topics like abortion, sexism, and Icelandic fairies.
– You reviewed Watchmen.
– You linked to a video about a talking alcoholic atheist dog.
– You featured photos of a frozen iceman.
– You sicced your minions on polls.
– You gave us Friday Cephalopods.
– You gave us Mary’s Monday Metazoans.
– You celebrated MAJeff’s Ph.D.
– You won an award.
– You had a birthday.
– You celebrated an anniversary.
– You wrecked your car.
Is there anything you won’t do to keep us reading?
I got here from Nonprophets. Can you please say “asshat” a few times in every entry, since NP have slacked off?
“What did I do this time?”
Becoming humanist of the year, maybe?
I spaced when I first started reading this blog. I do stuff like that. I’d point out that I’m a bit twee, but you knew that already.
And since a comment up above triggered the thought, I know present…
Our Church (Graham Nash Our House (For everybody who thinks Christianity jumped the shark with the Nicean Creed.)
Our church
Is a very very fine church
With three Gods on the wall
Sometimes they act so small
Damning different thinking in the pew.
(And that’s as far as I’ve gotten. Consider this an open religion filk and add more lyrics.)