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tlambert | February 21, 2006I've turned on the requirement that you have to provide an email address when leaving a comment. If that stops you from commenting the fix is to delete the cookies you have from scienceblogs. PZ Meyers has more on this and other bugs.
If you have any other bug reports or suggestions for improvements, leave a comment.
tlambert | February 9, 2006
Tim Blair reckons that Australian "leftoid" bloggers are losers. Why? Blair has discovered that those bloggers sometimes make mistakes!. For example, David Heidelberg mistook a spoof of Pajamas Media for the real thing, while Chris Sheil made a spelling mistake. But right-wing bloggers make mistakes too. How do they differ? Well, being weak lefties the bloggers he lists let themselves be swayed by facts and updated their posts with corrections and admissions of error. Whereas someone strong like Blair laughs in the face of mere facts and does not need to correct posts that are untrue…
tlambert | January 20, 2006because then maybe it would have been mentioned in the New York Times:
Seed Media, which produces science publications in print and online, is seeking to broaden its audience - and its appeal to advertisers - by introducing on Monday a network of blogs, or Web journals, devoted to science and science-related subjects. The network is to be made available on a Web site, scienceblogs.com, that is now operating in beta, or test, mode.
The Web site will initially bring together 15 blogs bearing names like Adventures in Ethics and Science, Cognitive Daily, Living the Scientific Life and Stranger…
tlambert | January 13, 2006This is my last post ever here. My blog has moved to http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/ where I will join some fantastic bloggers at ScienceBlogs. The new RSS feed is http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/index.xml. You can now read my first post at the new blog.
tlambert | January 11, 2006My blog turns three today. It started as a webpage that I updated daily on the John Lott affair. (To my mind, at least, this was different from a blog.) It's been through several changes of blogging software and host over this time and I'm celebrating the birthday with a move to ScienceBlogs.
The main reason for the move is the chance to be associated with the fine group of blogs here. The designers at ScienceBlogs are dreaming up ways to provide links to interesting posts at other blogs on this site in the sidebar, so my readers can get some more value out of my blog. I also now have…
tlambert | January 6, 2006Could some kind reader send me (lambert-AT-cse.unsw.edu.au) a copy of this article:
J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2003 Jul 25;66(14):1295-339.
Human health risk and exposure assessment of chromium (VI) in tap water.
Paustenbach DJ, Finley BL, Mowat FS, Kerger BD.
This post will self destruct when I get my hands on a PDF of the article.
tlambert | January 4, 2006It would be crass to post a top ten list where your own blog was number one. But if you posted a list where some other blog was number one and then that other blog returned the favour, well, that wouldn't be crass would it? Anyway, here are the top ten Alexa-ranked-by-traffic right-wing Australian blogs.
Tim Blair: 50,087
Catallaxy files: 225,663
Gravett.org (Yobbo plus a bunch of RWDBs I can't tell apart): 488,606
Observation Deck (Bernard Slattery, James McConvill, Peter Faris QC et al): 502,086
Blithering Bunny: 848,020
Man of Lettuce: 1,566,151
Whacking Day: 1,791,563…
tlambert | November 17, 2005Congratulations to z, who posted the 10,000th comment here:
Says here, change in total (internal) energy U is defined in terms of temperature T, pressure P, volume V and entropy S as
dU=TdS-PdV
or T=(dU+PdV)/dS ...
My thanks to everyone who has commented. Your comments keep me on my toes and make this place better and more interesting.
tlambert | November 12, 2005Currently comments to posts are shown in descending order (most recent comment first). Do you like this, or do you prefer that they appear in the conventional ascending order?
And while I'm asking, is there anything else about the presentation of this blog that could be improved?
Update: Ascending order it is.
tlambert | November 9, 2005
T-SAW, who emailed Tim Blair:
I saw your post about the proposed celebration at the Bellevue on Friday and your attendance along with that of some other wingnuts. Well I thought in the interests of community spirit that I'd pass along the details to some mates who used to be, amongst other things, BLF members. They were very interested in it and intend on bringing a group to join in the festivities on Friday. They mentioned something about what those blokes did to the channel 7 cameraman is gonna look like a massage when their done.
Paul Deignan, who after getting banned from commenting…
tlambert | October 25, 2005Via Pharyngula I find the commissar's project to make a blog family tree.
your blogfather, or blogmother, as the case may be. Marie Gryphon who was the first blogger to post on the the John Lott affair. I started this blog to join in the discussion.
Include your blog-birth-month, the month that you started blogging January 2003.
If you are reasonably certain that you have spawned any blog-children, mention them, too. If I inspired you to start blogging, leave a comment!
tlambert | September 28, 2005David Appell has quit blogging and deleted his blog, Quark Soup. William Connolley writes:
it was the first blog I read; perhaps DA somewhat lost his place when other climate-type blogs (RC mainly; perhaps even Stoat) took some of his niche. Deltoid was the next one I read... I trust they won't be going out in order.
I'll stop blogging when I run out of opinions, so this blog might be going for a while.
Certain commenters have continued a discussion that was on Quark Soup under an unrelated post here. I've deleted their comments and banned them moved their comments under this post.
tlambert | September 11, 2005Tim Blair's blog is notorious because commenters are banned merely for disagreeing with him. However, in this post, Blair accuses Antony Loewenstein of cowardice because Loewenstein would not debate with an abusive phone caller. Blair refuses to accept Loewenstein's stated reason ("He wants to shout and rant") because:
That's from someone who describes Australian Jews as "usually vitriolic, bigoted, racist and downright pathetic. Australian Jews, generally speaking, are incapable of hearing the true reality of their beloved homeland and its barbaric actions."
Did Loewenstein really…
tlambert | September 6, 2005The ancestor of this blog was my archive of Usenet and mail list postings about gun control. I created it in 1996 and updated it fitfully until I started this blog. Now I've folded it into this blog, so you can visit my archives from September 1993 and follow the raging debate about the frequency of defensive gun use. Each category in the archive has been turned into a category on the blog. For example, here are all my posts on Kellermann's research.
There are posts with discussion from Eugene Volokh, Clayton Cramer and Mary Rosh, all of whom have also gone on to start blogs.
tlambert | September 4, 2005Tim Blair has a post where he has over seventy links to posts by John Quiggin that mention Kyoto. We can conclude that Quiggin is a very careful writer because it looks like Blair didn't find any typos in all those posts. Stripped of his usual I-found-a-typo-therefore-you-are-wrong argument, Blair had to come up with something else. His substitute argument? Apparently he believes that the sheer force of this June 29 post had silenced Quiggin on Kyoto. Trouble is, Blair doesn't seem to have noticed that Quiggin posted this and this in July. Or maybe Blair is unaware that July is after…
tlambert | August 26, 2005There have been a few people who have used
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet">sock
puppets on this blog. Note that a sock puppet differs from a
pseudonym in that sock puppets are used to deceitfully make it appear
that there is more support for you postion than there really is. Here
is a table to help you keep track of the socks that have been used here.
Real Name
Sock Puppets
John Lott
Mary Rosh, Washingtonian, Bob H, Tom H, Sam, Kevin H, Too bad Tim is not very accurate, Gregg
David Bell
Per, James Brown, M Mouse
Joe Cambria
Dave Curry, S Brid, Pessimist, Pat…
tlambert | August 22, 2005"Dave Curry", the fellow who sent me a very nasty email and then a nice apology is back, using another sockpuppet to attack me:
Lambert was toasted on the Climate Audit website. Lambert is very quick to impugn the motives of others, criticise them for not having good enough credentials (according to Lambert) whenever someone's opinion differs from his own. He had the temerity to accuse someone with degrees from Harvard and MIT as not being a reputable academic (according to a post at Climate Audit). Posters asked if Lambert's degrees and expertise afford him the podium to throw at s.... at…
tlambert | July 12, 2005It's now a quarter of a decade since I started this blog.
Originally it was just a web page for my comments on John Lott's Mysterious Survey. I figured that the survey issue would be resolved in a few weeks and I could shut it down then, but that doesn't seem to have happened.
Thanks to the Internet Archive you can see what my blog looked like when it was three weeks old.
tlambert | July 10, 2005After three posts on a spelling mistake Chris Sheil made, and another one on a Sheil typo, it seems that Tim Blair couldn't find any more Sheil errors. Undaunted, he has a new post linking Sheil to spelling mistakes made by someone else:
In other spelling news, Chris Sheil is selling his trailer.
In obedience to the Iron Law of Spelling Flames, his link is broken. Corrected link.
Update: Make that four posts on the spelling mistake. Get help, Tim B.
More Update: Five.
Even More Update: Six and seven and eight andnine andten andeleven andtwelve.
tlambert | July 8, 2005By popular request, I've installed a comment preview plugin. I'd tried a live preview, but it didn't display Markdown. Now with a preview and a spell check you can avoid making a mistake in a comment and having Tim Blair write a whole series of posts about your mistake.
I also highly recommend the Bad Behavior plugin to any WordPress users. It blocks 99% of spam without any intervention on your part. Spam Karma 2 then blocks any spam that gets past Bad Behavior.