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I’ve added a widget to the right hand side titled “Random Posts”. As one might guess, clicking the link under the category title will go to a random post.
For my fellow WordPress bloggers out there, just add ?random to the end of your blog URL if you want to do the same thing.
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I have made the domain name for forthesakeofscience.wordpress.com into simply forthesakeofscience.com. Both will still work, so if you have this blog bookmarked or in the history of your location bar you won’t need to change anything.
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I want to start a new series, but I need your help.
There are bloggers and other individuals out there that just offer themselves up as punching bags. They are always anti–science. But I can’t find them all. For instance, my most recent punching bag, Neil, only came across my radar because of how wildly confused he is between the science of development and the subjectivity of “humanity”. Not everyone is that blatant in their misunderstanding of basic science. (Okay, so every single creationist is that blatantly confused, but I want to find some people more worthy of my time.)
So I’m not looking for people who raise legitimate scientific questions; I’m not about to get into a match with Jerry Coyne over how to define “species” (especially since I generally agree with him anyway). I want punching bags: people who mangle legitimate science for the sake of their point of view – a point of view they formed independently of anything to do with science. Alt-med quacks are always good, though creationists will work when the issue is topical, i.e., new hot-topic research. I don’t want the big names like Chopra for this series, but don’t be afraid to send me that sort of malarkey as well.
If you find something you think would fit these posts you can either make a post right here or email me at forthesakeofscience@gmail.com. Just be on the outlook for buzzwords like “quantum” or for people who draw nebulous connections between real studies and their worldview. Those people make up the most solid candidates.
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I’ve added two blogs to the widgets on the right side. The first is Nate’s Congress Shall Make No Law… The second is Michael’s Young, Hip and Conservative. Both are commenters here. I’ve placed them under “Teh Conservatives” just because they don’t fit the general theme I have going on under “Blogroll” right now.
I added Nate because he shows a degree of pragmatism that I generally find refreshing. We disagree on a lot of things, but he makes some good posts. Plus he likes The Liberal Cup. I added Michael because he makes a lot of intelligent posts. We actually do agree that there is no God and that gays shouldn’t be persecuted, but we diverge significantly on economics. “Conservative” for him doesn’t carry with it all the things it does when we refer to, say, any given FOX News employee.
But don’t worry. FTSOS is still the grand liberal bastion it has always been.
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WordPress users have been posting all their stats today. I’ll give into peer pressure.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 6 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 879 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1423 posts. There were 226 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 139mb. That’s about 4 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was February 23rd with 8,799 views. The most popular post that day was Andreas Moritz is a stupid, dangerous man.
The top referring sites in 2010 were scienceblogs.com, Google Reader, facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, and community.livejournal.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for hubble, hubble images, andreas moritz, hubble pictures, and golden lion tamarin.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Andreas Moritz is a stupid, dangerous man May 2009
330 comments
Hubble Contest March 2009
12 comments
Topless march in Farmington April 2010
3 comments
Why? March 2009
1 comment
Everest: Beyond the Limit December 2009
3 comments
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FTSOS just hit an arbitrary but very round number in hits: 200,000. Thanks. A couple of big posts are really images that show up on Google Image, so here are my top three real posts:
Andreas Moritz is a stupid, dangerous man (I still love that title.)
Topless march in Farmington (This also gave my Photographs tab a lot of views. A lot of very disappointed views.)
Why Natural Selection is Not Random (This was originally written for a local publication; I’ve never been a huge fan of it, but people keep searching for it because creationists keep lying. It includes interviews with Kenneth Miller and a Creationist ‘Museum’ hack.)
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I recently realized the picture I’ve traditionally used for the Hubble Deep Field image isn’t so great. But rather than just get a better version of that image and stick with the old, I’ve uploaded the more recent and higher resolution Hubble Ultra Deep Field to my media library on WordPress. Enjoy the eye candy.
Recall, those are all galaxies. Only arrogance could say that all this exists and it’s really just for us.
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Just a quick blogroll update: After reading A Quantum of Knowledge, I’ve decided to add it to the blogroll links on the right side of the site here.
Oh, and don’t forget to take a look at the blog of Jim Hodgson, bike and font enthusiast.
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Here are some of my thoughts on a suitable new header image. These pictures aren’t finalists or anything; I’m still open to suggestion.
Kilimanjaro in the morning
Kilimanjaro glacier
Kilimanjaro sunrise
Badlands
Part of the decision will rest upon what image best lends itself to the dimensions of the header.
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I’ve kicked around the idea of choosing a new layout for FTSOS, but ultimately decided that it would not be beneficial. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t make minor changes. That’s why I’m looking at changing the image I currently have in the header. Right now it’s a 35 million year old oreodont fossil I found in the Badlands of South Dakota in 2008. It’s a wonderful image, but I’ve had it up since I made this blog. I think it might be time to update.
So throw me some ideas. Look through some of the photographs I have up. Let me know what you think would be a good idea. Just keep in mind that several of those photographs are not mine and I thus will not be using them. If you like something that is credited to someone else, however, say so. I may have something comparable in my own collection. And if you don’t see something you like, still throw out some ideas; I’ve got thousands of pictures through which I can sift.
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For the Sake of Science 