And really, why wouldn't you? What could have prepared you for the possibility that reading one would make the other vanish, as if there were some kind of blogular wavefunction collapse?
The ScienceBlogs powers that be have been alerted that there's an issue with disappearing comments (if you're reading a post) and disappearing posts (if you're reading the comments). They are busy trying to get the squirrels out of the ductwork (or fix the javascript problem, whichever).
In the meantime, if you're desperate to contribute a comment to a post, or to get the 411 on a post on this blog that has up and vanished, shoot me an email and I'll do what I can to help.
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But its topical! We have the bizarre and deeply stupid ruling from the EU re the "right to vanish".
This word is from one of the books that I am now reading, Mark Jerome Walters' Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinctions on a Hawai'ian Island.
I think this is my favorite newspaper headline yet: Priest attached to party balloons vanishes in Brazil.
You may have thought you saw some other posts here earlier in the day. You didn't. Pay no attention to the vanishing posts about things I wasn't supposed to post about.