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The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 5892 - 1846 - 1696 - 1224 - 1118 out of 571 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With less than 4 weeks remaining, things are heating up and voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign their votes and new voters cast theirs for the first time. Many tens of thousands of votes have already been cast in this competition, so if the people who have cast their votes already decide to change them, they can significantly affect the outcome of this competition. The top four vote-getters are receiving most of these votes, so I need your votes more than ever to recapture first place, so please ask your friends and relatives to vote for me now!
According to the competition rules, there is an interview after the voting has ended to ascertain whether the top vote-getter fulfills Quark's requirements. If not, the next highest vote-getter will then be evaluated.
If you've already voted, then please encourage your family, friends, colleagues and neighbors to vote for the person whom you think would be best for this unique job: traveling to Antarctica for the month of February 2010 and writing about it for the public on a blog. Here is my 300-word essay; hopefully, you will agree that I am a very well-qualified candidate for this job opportunity. Voting ends at noon EDT 30 September and there is one vote allowed per valid email address (registration required).
Details: Quark Expeditions is searching for an Official Blogger to join a voyage to Antarctica. Their goals, according to an email I received recently from their official spokesperson, Prisca, are to have their official blogger write a daily blog entry in English about his or her experience on this Antarctic trip, and to help raise public awareness of the environmental and conservation issues that pertain to the Antarctic. To select their official blogger, they are asking candidates to enter a competition where the public votes for whom they think would do the best job.
I've posted a picture and written a 300 word essay and my entry is public. To vote, go there and register your email address (and create a different password from that used for your email). Then, within a few seconds to an hour or so, you will receive a confirmatory message at your registered email address so you can then vote in this competition. Remember, according to the rules, there is "one vote per valid email address" and no more than two votes per individual. So after you've voted, be sure to ask everyone you know to vote for me, too. If you've had troubles registering your email address, please contact me (so I know of your troubles) and Quark Expedition's marketing manager, Prisca Campbell, who will then register your email address by hand, as she's already done for several of my readers.
Voting ends at noon EDT on 30 September 2009, and the Official Quark Blogger will travel to Antarctica in February 2010 to blog about the experience, chronicling the action, the emotion, and the drama as this polar adventure unfolds.
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Have you asked PZ to remind his godless hordes to check out the site and vote (preferably for you)? Remind him that there are some cool cephalopods in the Antarctic - even though you probably won't see them because you haven't got a dry suit or a small submersible.
many times, alas. i think he is preoccupied with his book.
PZed has asked us a couple of times and I and others checked out and voted.
But you know the thing about herding cats... Pharyngulites will crash a daft fundie poll, the south pole, not so much.
PS - In anticipation of you getting there: That mystery bird is a king penguin.
I've voted for you, of course, but I think without a concerted pharyngulation you are facing an uphill climb. The basic problem is not that you are doing badly in the poll, far from it, your overall votes are fine - you could easily pass the currently second placed blogger. The problem is that the leader has basically dedicated himself full time to getting as many votes as he can (he's got a website where he's posted video of himself dressed as a penguin appearing on Portuguese national TV - singing pingu songs! - and he's got a penguin band that goes around Lisbon campaigning for votes).
You will need PZ to exhort his hordes to take two minutes to register on the site and vote for you (just asking them to vote wont work if they don't know they have to register - that always tends to put people off).
Anyway, good luck with the rest of the competition.
well, i am working on it. and yes, i do need all the help i can get, too! from all of you!
Conservative parents in Missouri want to see your penguin get naked!