I Link So You Don't Have To

I decided not to do anything productive today. Instead I surfed the blogosphere, and here is the best of what I found:

The Iron Blog is over. The tasting is here:
http://www.blueandred.net/blog/?p=14
...and the verdict here:
http://www.blueandred.net/blog/?p=15
I am mad that Majikthise did not win, but what can I expect from biased home-turf judges! Will a challenger ever win?

A new blog carnival: Science and Christianity Showcase:
http://allthings2all.blogspot.com/2005/03/science-and-christianity-showcase.html
Not too impressive...and why is there nothing about evolution (one wonders)?

....and an idea for a Carnival for Un-capitalists, by Freiheit und Wissen:
http://cntodd.blogspot.com/2005/03/carnival-of-un-capitalists.html
to include blog posts about, for instance:
Income disparity and the increase of global poverty
Privatization and the crisis of public ownership
The emerging corporate threat to democracy
Corporate malfeasance
Workers' rights, union organizing, and transnational solidarity movements
Free-trade vs. Fair-trade
Neoliberalism and market deregulation
Anti-globalist perspectives and alternatives
Corporate environment abuse
Sustainable development


Carl Zimmer writes about dinosaurs (twice):
Growing Up With Dinosaurs
http://www.corante.com/loom/archives/2005/03/16/growing_up_with_dinosaurs.php
Why do we have so many questions about the most successful animals that ever lived?
http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-05/cover/

Pratie Place on the turth and myths about the Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969:
http://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/03/cuyahoga-river-fire-of-1969.html
...on framing:
http://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/03/framing-ancient-example.html
...and on Monarch butterflies:
http://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/03/monarch-butterflies.html


Billmon has fun with Horrorritz:
David Horowitz's (Losing) BattleWith the Truth
http://billmon.org/archives/001751.html
Scenes From the Cultural Revolution
http://billmon.org/archives/001752.html

PZ Myers explains evolution in the absence of selection:
Genuine controversies and the distracting nonsense of creationism
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/genuine_controversies_and_the_distracting_nonsense_of_creationism/
...and concludes his series on Berlinski:
http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/berlinski_babbles_some_more/

Phawrongula, of course, immediately translates Pharyngula into verse:
http://phawrongula.blogspot.com/

Which version of Ten Commandments should we really hang in schools and courthouses:
http://www.atheists.org/christianity/hangemall.html

Eric Martin on Iraq, Consitution etc.:
http://tianews.blogspot.com/2005/03/ill-take-some-of-what-theyre-having.html

From Panda's Thumb, on a strange new robot:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000879.html
...on the eye, or why IDC arguments about the eye are wrong:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000872.html
...on should we teach IDC in schools:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000875.html
...on the natural fraternity of IDC and astrology:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000881.html

Contrary Brin on Modernism 16b: An Aside About "Human Nature"
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2005/03/modernism-16b-aside-about-human-nature.html

Evolving Thoughts about "Argument From Designer To Design":
http://evolvethought.blogspot.com/2005/03/what-actually-is-design.html

Backwards City about the real ending of Peter Pan and it is daaaaark (look around the blog for some great links):
http://backwardscity.blogspot.com/2005/03/guide-to-adult-rereading-of-peter-pan_16.html

Evolutionblog on fundamentalism and postmodernism:
http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/2005/03/postmodernism-and-fundamentalism.html

Emwe's Meta-Blog on the Unity Of Science and the Completeness of Physics:
http://plogworld.cubeproject.de/plog/post/119/574

Evolgen on the Origin Of Life:
http://evolgen.blogspot.com/2005/03/on-origin-of-life_09.html
...on sequencing the genome of the NY City air:
http://evolgen.blogspot.com/2005/03/sequencing-genome-of-nyc-air.html
...and on the Politically Incorrect History:
http://evolgen.blogspot.com/2005/03/politically-incorrect-history.html

How fast is the speed of (conscious) thought?
Chris of Mixing Memory responds:
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/03/moving-at-speed-of-speech.html

Burning Bird on blogrolls, Women-bloggers and TTLB ecosystem (good!):
http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2005/03/15/steve-levy-dave-sifrey-and-nz-bear-you-are-hurting-us/

MindHacks on ketamine:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/through_the_khole.html#more
...gifted children:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/the_psychology_and_n.html
..brainwashing:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/the_science_of_brain.html
..brain injury:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/brain_injury_how_mu.html
....mental space:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/fighting_for_mental_.html
...and bipolar disorder:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2005/03/studying_the_nose_to.html

Red State Rabble on Republican funding of IDC:
http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2005/03/pitch-documents-well-coordinated-anti.html
...and some more:
http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2005/03/right-wing-pacs-channel-big-bucks-to.html
...and more:
http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/2005/03/note-to-readers.html
...and a flow-chart of money-flow:
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/137/3111/1024/Slush%20Fund7.jpg

Effect Measure on scientific evidence in courts:
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/03/georgia-on-my-mind.html
(plus many many posts on the avian flu)

A very cool tree at the Holowatch blog:
http://www.narphonax.com/blog/2005/03/its-bark-is-bigger-than-its-stretched.html

Rhosgobel has two ongoing sereis. One is full of great pictures from the British Museum, the last entry (containing links to previous entries) is here:
http://rhosgobel.blogspot.com/2005/03/british-museum-part-2.html
The other is on California school troubles:
http://rhosgobel.blogspot.com/2005/03/ventura-cccd-student-protests.html

Blog Or Not on a blog-based locally-organized system of think-tanks:
http://mcraig.blogspot.com/2005/03/creation-of-blog-think-tank.html

AEBrain on the ethics of transplanting human brain cells into mouse brains:
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2005/03/of-mice-and-men_15.html

Keat's Telescope on publishing data online:
http://keatstelescope.blogspot.com/2005/03/too-much-information.html
....on the X-chromosome in human and platypus:
http://keatstelescope.blogspot.com/2005/03/sexed-up.html
...and on methane on Mars:
http://keatstelescope.blogspot.com/2005/03/martian-methane.html

Preposterous Universe on the division of the political blogosphere:
http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#111051304357326783
...and about being rich:
http://preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#111076923476600211

Mike the Mad Biologist on The God Gene:
http://mikethemadbiologist.blogspot.com/2005/03/god-gene.html
...and on role of religion in the Democratic Party from a Jewish perspective:
http://mikethemadbiologist.blogspot.com/2005/03/sullivan-pharyngula-and-religion.html

The Nonist continures the series on sexual pathologies of the past:
http://thenonist.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/case_98/

The Between on violence vs. sex in video games (do you know they censor sex for US versions and violence for European versions of many games?):
http://the-between.blogspot.com/2005/03/corrupting-influence-of-breasts.html

Editors of Scientific American have their own blog:
http://sciam-editor.typepad.com/weblog1/

Blog about music and the neuroscience of music:
http://musicalperceptions.blogspot.com/

Sleepdoctor (formerly Rebel Doctor) on war in obesity:
http://sleepdoctor.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-casualty-in-war-against-obesity.html

Thread The Needle continues the series on psychological effects of slavery:
http://threadtheneedle.blogspot.com/2005/03/extension-of-toxicity.html

Hedwig The Owl reports: Pale Male and Lola have eggs!
http://girlscientist.blogspot.com/2005/03/pale-male-and-lola-have-eggs.html
...and on flu vaccines:
http://girlscientist.blogspot.com/2005/03/influenza-how-its-biology-affects.html

Rana on Politics as a Popularity Contest:
http://palimpsest.typepad.com/frogsandravens/2005/03/politics_as_pop.html

Tony Pierce has some tips on how to blog:
http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/2004/06/how-to-blog-by-tony-pierce-110-1.htm

...while Marketing Sherpa has advice for people who use blogs for business:
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=2937

Dissecting Rightism continues to...well, dissect Rightism:
http://dissectright.blogspot.com/

Mahablog on the invasion of She-Bloggers:
http://www.mahablog.com/2005.03.13_arch.html#1111070687007
...on woman-talk:
http://www.mahablog.com/2005.03.13_arch.html#1110727172361
...and many, many other good posts....

Culture Cat on changes in teen-girl literature over time (some cool covers!):
http://culturecat.net/node/728
....and on her presentation about blogging culture, including female bloggers:
http://culturecat.net/node/734

Daily Duck on evolution and relativity:
http://dailyduck.blogspot.com/2005/02/argument-clinic.html
...on Berlinsky, part 1:
http://dailyduck.blogspot.com/2005/02/in-defense-of-darwinism-ignorable.html
...part 2:
http://dailyduck.blogspot.com/2005/02/in-defence-of-darwinism-ignorable.html
...and part 3:
http://dailyduck.blogspot.com/2005/03/berlinski-more-reasons-to-ignore.html
...and on the decline of atheism:
http://dailyduck.blogspot.com/2005/03/twilight-of-no-gods.html

Bitch, PhD, on argumentative women:
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2005/03/argumentative-women.html
..on deserving men:
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2005/03/more-props-to-deserving-men.html
...and mommy-blogging:
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2005/03/kudos-to-boys.html

Syaffolee on killing the males:
http://www.gamalei.net/syaffolee/2005_03_01_archive.html#111054134168338801

A blog written by a hedgehog:
http://hedgieblog.blogspot.com/

Craving Progress is a new blog by a scientist, Sara the Immunology Student:
http://cravingprogress.blogspot.com/

Amanda of Mouse Words on religion and women in sports:
http://mousewords.blogspot.com/2005/03/jesus-hates-long-distance-runner.html

Everything you always wanted to know about clams (from Dharma Bums):
http://newdharmabums.blogspot.com/2005/03/mmmmmmmm-clams.html

The First Year Teacher (now in second year of teaching) gets Satan to help with classroom discipline:
http://firstyearteacher.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_firstyearteacher_archive.html#111039341907407956

Brad Plummer on the "investor class":
http://plumer.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_plumer_archive.html#111104290151970962

The Number 2 Pencil has a series of tutorials about statistics:
http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/archives/cat_term_of_the_day.html

An Edwards supporter from NC:
http://ncgrassrooter.blogspot.com/

Decembrist on Opportunity vs. Security (as a false dichotomy):
http://markschmitt.typepad.com/decembrist/2005/03/security_iis_io.html

The Thinking Nurse on Blog Therapy:
http://thinkingnurse.blogspot.com/2005/03/blog-therapy-evaluation-of-online-self.html
...and here:
http://thinkingnurse.blogspot.com/2005/03/blog-therapy-watch-this-space.html
...on psychological differences between Left and Right (politically):
http://thinkingnurse.blogspot.com/2005/03/psychological-differences-between-left.html

Interesting perspective from Hey City Zen:
http://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/2005/03/power-in-darkness.html

Animal Crackers on "Eat Meat" Day (which I forgot to post about, but dutifully ate meat):
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2005/03/peta_people_eat.html
...and on PETA terrorist connections:
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2005/03/peta_and_peta_a.html
...and actions:
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2005/03/grave_desecrati.html

Much fun on the San Diego Zoo blog:
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/index.php

...likewise on the Asheboro Zoo blog:
http://russlings.blogspot.com/

Buridan's Ass on IDC and Probability Reasoning:
http://www.buridansass.com/archives/2005/02/intelligent_des.html
....on defending evolution:
http://www.buridansass.com/archives/2005/03/defend_evolutio.html
...and on not letting IDC into schools:
http://www.buridansass.com/archives/2005/03/plumbers_soluti.html

Iconoclast on Anarcho-Syndicalism:
http://myrrander.blogspot.com/2005/03/hope-for-society-through-anarcho.html

Gorgeous Italian Kendo Blogger (in Italian):
http://kokeshi-desu.blogspot.com/

What is Life? It Looks Different From Here tries to answer:
http://itlooksdifferentfromhere.blogspot.com/2005/03/life-and-life.html

Niches is one of the most informative science blogs:
http://sparkleberrysprings.com/v-web/b2/

Ilyka Damen on women in the workplace:
http://ilyka.mu.nu/archives/071848.html

Bigwig on Simian Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated:
http://silflayhraka.com/archives/006308.html
...and continues his series on birds of Iraq:
http://silflayhraka.com/archives/006305.html
Trish Wilson on Deborah Tannen on male/female communication styles:
http://trishwilson.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/the_feminine_te.html

Aaron Swartz on fraud in science:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001616
...and on Summers:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001606
...and on relationship between astrology and Republicans:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001599

World O'Crap on Hannity defending Easter (like O'Reilly defended Christmas):
http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2005/03/17.html#a1560

Trixie Update blogs about his daughter, from the moment she was born:
http://www.trixieupdate.com/
Here is the sleeping chart:
http://www.trixieupdate.com/telemetry/sleep/index.php?num=all&g=Go

For The Record on short-term vs, long-term planning:
http://wilsonhellie.typepad.com/for_the_record/2005/03/atrios_scores_b.html

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred is a very snarky, ironic, sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek and maddening, yet smart blog:
http://sigcarlfred.blogspot.com/

Any Set of Characters on prostitution:
http://www.crazyivan.org/Blog/2005/03/yet-another-reason-to-move-to.html
...part 2:
http://www.crazyivan.org/Blog/2005/03/on-prositution-part-ii.html

Nadezhda is inspired by Publius and writes a drama about Social Security:
http://cheznadezhda.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/15/438640.html

Mick Arran has some good writing on Gannon and Social Security, and the last post promoted Blog Tower #3:
http://omnium.blogdrive.com/archive/259.html

Mike Munger, my favourite nutty libertarian:
http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/

Cindy of Mousemusings on listening, critical thinking, creativity and the Nation of Clones:
http://www.mousemusings.com/weblogs/2005/03/clones-cant-think-critically-or.html

Dust Devils on Mars? chattr+a-V reports:
http://www.devmike.com/blog/archives/2005-03-17T13_18_39.html

Ron on perception of gays:
http://ronhudson.blogspot.com/2005/03/sexual-expression-inequality.html

...and do not forget to send your entries for the Tar Heel tavern:
http://piratescove.typepad.com/piratescove/2005/03/the_tarheel_tar.html