So apparently I should check my friends’ blogs more often. Jack of Jack’s Haunt has this nice story about an encounter with a douche at his work. It involves a wad of cash, a tire iron, the cops, and some pop-anthropology of Ossian. Go read!
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The title is German for “When you work in Ossian…”

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No, I’m not talking Butter and his affection for birds. I’m talking about the mini-blog web app, Twitter. It’s sort of a dedicated, more sophisticated “What are you doing” feature from Facebook. You can track what other Twitterers are doing throughout the day, and you can post what you are doing.
Now, as you read what [...]

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Technorati, the closest thing we have to an authority on the blogosphere, posted a report about what we can expect from the bloggy part of the internets. They have statistics, demographics, and some editorials on everything you wanted to know about the blog world.
Here’s just a taste:
With blogging so firmly entrenched in the mainstream, the [...]

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Congrats to Waffles for becoming a celeb in the blogosphere today. He’s achieved the most popular thread to date at the Freethought Fort Wayne blog by getting a positive endorsement from PZ on Pharyngula. Waffles’s atheist coming-out story is honest and moving, and reveals the real perils of religious education. If you [...]

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You’ll notice, of course, that in my pro-P.Z. letter to President Bruininks, I pretty much avoided the core issue. To a large extent, it’s irrelevant: P.Z. enjoys free-speech rights, particularly on a private blog that’s unaffiliated with the university, and anyway, he has tenure. Any organized campaign to pressure the university to take action [...]

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So there’s a little kerfluffle over at Pharyngula about P.Z. making fun of some
crackers. Basically, Bill Donahue and the Catholic League got their dander up about some kid absconding from Mass with a Eucharist wafer (which is totally the body of the Lord Jesus, even though it seems to every empirical investigator to be [...]

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There is another blog war going on out there, folks, and it’s not all in fun like our little music feud.
My favorite blog, BoingBoing, just posted a notice about some drama going on. Violet Blue, a prominent sex blogger and columnist for SFGate, apparently is up in arms about BoingBoing’s removal of content about her. [...]

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