Words that stay. Maybe. By Reinder Dijkhuis
I nuked my Facebook Pages for this? This morning, I posted something to my Substack newsletter for the first time in over a year. Below, the post is reproduced in full: It’s been almost exactly a year since I last posted here. I’ve had it on my to-do list for all that time to send …
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Bringing the blog back to life
Every once in a while, I get in the mood to go to a blog or forum and instead of quietly absorbing what people say, join the fray and make a giant jackass of myself. Today has been that kind of day, and like all such days, they’re not good for me. Time to step …
Darkness by Boulet is probably the best 24-hour comic ever made. The writing and art are just too good to be true and even in its current imperfect translation (the comic was originally in French) it has some classic lines in it. Speaking of which, the other day I read Daniel Davies’ The Christmas Sermon …
Pushing Ahead of the Dame discusses every single David Bowie has appeared on from the 1960s to today, at great length, with historical context and insight into the creative process and personnell. That and good comment threads make it an example of what reviews can be, and what they need to be at a time …
Via Pete Ashton, I heard that there’s such a thing as an Unspeak blog, a blog about "state-of-the-art rhetorical weaponry". So I check it out, it is there, and it is fantastic. I’m not going to single out any one post – just go read the entire archive.
Someone forgot to renew a domain name, and that someone is Seed Magazine, who own Scienceblogs.com. The domain has already been snapped up by another organisation, who I shan’t link to because they must have been preying over it like vultures to pick it up so quickly. Scumbags. I hope someone’s at least archived Pharyngula. …
Jon Swift: If Chris Muir drew Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, for example, he wouldn’t have bothered drawing a panel showing Lucy pulling the football away at the last minute when Charlie Brown tries to kick it. That would be too Old School for him. Instead, Muir would just have Lucy say, “Democrats always pull the football …
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Sure, I’ll help Pharyngula become the number one Minnesota blog, no problem. It’s one of my favorite blogs, covering atheism, evolutionary biology, adorable cephalopods and lately, the thorny subject of how to talk about science (he’s in favour of the revolutionary approach of letting scientists be scientists). There’s the occasional bit of Internet drama, which …
Reminder to self and others to read Susie Bright on NSFW warnings. Also, read comments. But first, bed. (Via Pharyngula) Update: What you really need to read is this earlier post in which Bright brings up the classism involved in deciding what does and does not get branded NSFW. Again, the comments are good.