The Big List #6

The third and fourth items are described as new blogs. This only means that they are new to me - not that they are brand new blogs making their debut in the cyberspaceship. There are literally hundreds of blogs out there on the Interwebs and I have as yet encountered but a handful of them. The more interesting ones will get a quick mention in a Big List post and be added to the Tasty Blogs sidebar.

• The Bush-McCain Challenge

Click above to play America’s fastest-growing quiz sensation - the Bush-McCain Challenge! Brought to you by our good friends at MoveOn (Motto: Who’s too far to the left? What left? We’re right and we know it!) As a bonus, those fine folks at MoveOn even included a link to the sources for the questions they pose in the challenge. Join the fun today!

• Darwin?.....Darwin?.....Darwin?

Another entry from Cosmic Log, this one taking Ben Stein to task for his film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a documentary in which Stein takes scientists to task for not allowing “intelligent design” to be taught in science classrooms. Lots of links in the post to various side topics and supporting material discussed.

• New Blog - The Intersection

Ran across this while reading a story on Cosmic Log about Cyclone Nargis - a science blog by the fellow who wrote a very good book called The Republican War On Science. Perusing The Intersection then led me to another...

• New Blog - Science Progress

Another science blog, this one part of the Center For American Progress and dedicated to the idea that scientific inquiry is one of the best achievements of humankind and that it should help people achieve a better future.

• Say Goodbye, Don’t Follow

The link is to the online site for the comic strip Non Sequitur, and the strip in question is Monday’s (5/12). I first uploaded the picture directly into my blog, but found when I looked at it that it was too small too read. So in place of the picture there is the link - this strip is funny most of the time anyway, but this one is really good.