soapbox

I got a mighty mouse this evening and it really is mighty.

If you want to see it tomorrow, I’ll be playing around with it.

I dare you to bid.

eBay: Pancake Shaped Like a Rabbit! Collectable and tasty!

Ok folks, time for a little bit of cleanup on the old blog.

We have 17 useable categories right now and yet the large majority of all the previous posts fall into “general”. It’s time to go through past posts and make sure that they’re under the right heading.

So here are some rules.
1) Each person is responsible for making sure their own posts are correctly categorized. Do it wrong and I’ll publicly make fun of you.
2) Multiple categories are fine, but if it fits in anything besides “general”, it shouldn’t be included in “general” unless there’s a damn good reason.

I’m going to go through my own posts soon and then spot check all of y’all’s posts. I won’t say when it needs to be done, but you should go through your posts soon. The sooner you do it, the lower the chance that I make fun of you. And I reserve the right to be mean. Ha.

The previous post about the “Supernova” movie reminded me of Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy site. He’s got a blog (wordpress, just like us), and there’s a post about “Google-bombing” by getting lots of sites to link to the National Center for Science Education’s page about Intelligent Design in order to bump their page on Intelligent Design to the top of the search. That way, whenever someone searches for Intelligent Design they get the real story.

The mother of all bad astronomy movies. Sheesh.

The simple summary: the sun goes supernova. ‘nough said.

How difficult would adding a new post category be?

Again, this is the sort of thing I’m ill-euqipped to help with, much less make and estimate of how to go about it.

At any rate, if it’s something easy to do, I’d like to petition for the addition of a “political” category for posts. Admittedly, many of them are often posted in such a tone as to qualify for “bitching”, but it seems like we should have a distinct category that denotes informed, thoughtful political discourse.

Last time I checked, the gravestones of fallen soldiers are sacrosanct, so overt political jockeying has absolutely no place being inscribed on them.

That’s all; I really don’t think I need to say anything else, as the bald-faced hubris of this one speaks for its own damn self.