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Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Rumor has it that Scalzi is fixing lunch. At least, that’s what pLittle implies, although take that with this grain of salt.
You may hear rumors that this is actually a super-secret photo of the real PZ Myers, but you’d be mistaken.
You can tell because I wouldn’t use that non-Mac laptop, ever.
Seed has started this thing they’re calling “Ask a Science Blogger,” in which we’re supposed to take provocative questions and answer them here. You know, like those ice-breaking party games, supposed to get the social bonding thing going, foster unity, etc. Only thing is, they don’t quite get the idea yet—they’re asking the science bloggers to come up with questions to ask the science bloggers. “What’s that?” I say, “why not cut out the middleman and not ask the questions that nobody’s asking that we’re being asked to answer? Saves time.”
That’s too mean-spirited, so let’s turn it around in true weblogging fashion and ask you, the loyal readers, to invent the questions that we’ll ask the bloggers that they might then answer. These will then get passed up the corporate food chain, filtered and processed, and come back down to us in a little game of telephone. You know, you’ll ask some great question like “How does a pycnogonid eat an opisthobranch?” and the question of the week will be “How do pygmies greet the opposite rank?” and we’ll all sit here baffled. It will be great Science.
To prime the pump, here are a few questions that I thought would be fun.
I’m sure you can come up with much better ones. If you don’t feel like asking questions, there’s nothing stopping you from answering them!
I’m pretty sure he’d drive a Hummer H2, with a pile of fast food wrappers in the back, a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker, and one of those stainless steel bull scrotum castings hanging from the rear.
SkookumPlanet sent me a tantalizing photo.
Contemplate the possibilities.
(Don’t worry, Mary, I’ll never trade you in.)
This is unnatural.
Although, I suppose, if one found that molluscan look really attractive, that gadget and a slathering of a water-based lubricant would do the job.
Nice shirt! Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
Actually, it’s kind of insane.
Various science-deniers at the ID websites were unhappy with me because I said belief in ID was an indicator of incompetence, and that I wouldn’t vote to to support tenure and promotion for one of their guys. I think they ought to adopt Florentino Floro as a cause.
“They should not have dismissed me for what I believed,” Florentino Floro, a trial judge in the capital’s Malabon northern suburb, told reporters after filing his appeal.
Floro was sacked last month and fined 40,000 pesos ($780) after a three-year investigation found he was incompetent, had shown bias in a case he was trying and had criticized court procedure, a ruling showed.
The poor man! Martyred for merely believing in something!
A Philippine judge who claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked for his job back after being fired by the country’s Supreme Court.
In case you were wondering, the dwarfs were named Armand, Luis and Angel.
He’d still have his job if they’d been named Jesus or Mohammed or JHWH.
(via Exploding Aardvark)
Grrlscientist is pushing another of those online quiz thingies—What’s Your Theme Song?—and it was quick and easy, so I took it. Now I’m horribly scarred. Especially compared to my fellow science bloggers, I got a result that disturbs me deeply. I may end up getting kicked off scienceblogs over this.
