And the winners in these two categories are:
xkcd: Purity
Digital Cuttlefish: The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem
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I know many of you are trembling in anticipation: "Did I make it this year?". Well, it's like the Oscars - the Academy Awards are kept tightly under wraps until the moment the envelope is opened.
The list of entries was long, and full of excellent posts - this was hard to judge!
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We are busy preparing for The Open Laboratory 2008. The submissions have been trickling in all year, and a little bit more frequently recently, but it is time now to dig through your Archives for your best posts since December 20th 2007 and submit them. Submit one, or two, or several - no problem…
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In the first anthology, Open Laboratory 2006, we included a poem by MissPrism, Waterbear Down. In 2007 collection, Much Ado About...The Brain? by Digital Cuttlefish made the cut. In the 2008 edition, the winning poem was The Evolutionary Biology Valentine's Day Poem, also by Digital Cuttlefish.
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Woo-Hoo!!!
You liked it, even with the misuse of a commonly-misused word as a prominent rhyme!
(Gotta see if I can fix that in edit...)
Wahhh!! Well done DC! And wonderful company - the well-deserving xkcd.com! :D
Ohmigosh that is an amazing poem. I can't believe my little blurb about tomatoes gets to sit with a poem like that, or with anything ever published on xkcd.com. Thanks!!
Hang on there, Steve!
As a long-time and passionate tomato gardener, I count your "little blurb" as perhaps my favorite! A few summers ago, I planted 18 different varieties of tomato in my garden--heirlooms, hybrids, different colors, sizes, shapes. It was wonderful... but the question I had that I never found an answer for was "why the variety in leaf shape?" There really is as much variety there as in the fruits, although I had not even noticed before. Your post is an eye-opener--and given that another name for the tomato is the "love apple", I have think that your post is far more similar to mine than first glance might lead one to believe... anyway, thank you for the flattering words, but thank you much more for your deserving post!