This has been a long time coming.
Due to an obvious and cheap attempt at cheating, last year PZ Myers won the Best Science Blog of 2006 award. However, I cannot prove he cheated — and while such a triviality as actual evidence may not stop 99% of the world at large, I am a scientist, and must go with what I can prove.
So PZ won, and I lost a bet with him. Had I won, he would pose for the Skepchick calendar. However, had I lost, I was to sing PZ’s praises at the 2007 Amaz!ng Meeting and write a blog entry as well.
I lost, so I did what I had to do as an honorable man. I waited to do the blog entry because I wanted to add the video, and that has finally become available. Here you go:
I think this video embedded here counts toward both aspects of the bet.
I hear PZ posed for the calendar anyway. Sucker.
My great thanks to Rich at JREF for putting the video together for me. You can buy the DVD of TAM 5 here, and the resolution on the DVD is much better than what you see on YouTube. Duh.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:08 am
I can’t believe it’s been this long already since I saw it live …
September 18th, 2007 at 9:11 am
For whatever reason, I can never play embedded Youtube videos; I have to follow them through to the Youtube page itself.
In this case, I am told, “This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender’s friend request.”
Is there any way to make it public?
September 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Ive got the same problem as above.
September 18th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Youtube says:
September 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Ditto
Ditto
September 18th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Oops! I forgot to make it public, not private. I fixed it, and it should work now.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:05 am
BA, “E pur si muove” is Italian, not Latin, btw.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:27 am
You know, I don’t think cephalopods consider “sucker” to be an insult. In fact, I believe they treat it as a badge of honor, with some cephalopods decorating themselves with dozens of them.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
And so Phil Plait also gives PZ Myers and Pharyngula a gift, a beautiful hardcover book which he describes as “In praise of the Cephalopods.” Happily PZ Myers accepts but later, as he boards the plane, his assistant runs up: We translated the book! No, no! “Caveat Calamari” isn’t in praise of Cephalopods! It’s a cook book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0BSgLKnSk
September 18th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
If you can tear yourself away from self promotion for a bit…
Just teasing!
Anyway, there’s a meteor in Peru that is making people sick.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070918032309.snshi71r&show_article=1
IMHO, I think it just kicked up some sort of minor pathogen that was in the soil. Pathogens *love* soil preservation.
100 foot wide crater, though. Not too shabby.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Anyway, Phil, Biology [i]is[/i] really cool. You got a problem with that?
September 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
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