Actually, “we” is inaccurate, since I changed the theme of the blog by dictatorial fiat and only later asked for token approval. But I think it looks better. I’m also planning to add to the blogroll, which hasn’t been updated in a scrote’s age and featured a few no-longer-updated sites before the weekend transition to a variable-width layout with my beloved size-2 Arial font. In order to do that, I’d like to have a sense of who visits this place and wants so see their own blog or favorite blogs linked. Basically any running-related blog that’s not merely a tricked-out training log, any blog that disparages stupid people and things in as deliberate and humorous a manner as possible, cool science sites, and stuff that is just plain funny is on the table.
Do you like what we’ve done with the place?
- Doc Bushwell is a biochemist and a medical writer who serves as a slavering minion of the dark lords of Big and Little Pharma; Jim is an engineering professor with a fondness for running shoes and drumsticks; and Kevin Beck is a self-exiled member of the clan who refuses to stay gone.
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#1 by jomike on April 26, 2011 - 9:36 pm
Yeah, the place looks really good. So neat & clean, unsuspecting n00bs will wander in and assume it’s, like, a class joint or sumpin’.
Ophelia Benson’s Butterflies and Wheels isn’t a science blog, but it’s just so damned good and it rarely appears on U.S. blogrolls: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/
David Gorski, Steve Novella, and a few others run the outstanding Science-Based Medicine: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/
Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True is like Pharyngula with less traffic and a much higher signal-to-noise ratio in the comments: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/
And for comix, two that consistently deliver the goods:
Jesus and Mo: http://www.jesusandmo.net/
XKCD: http://xkcd.com/
#2 by kemibe on April 27, 2011 - 1:38 pm
jomike — good calls. Most of those are already in my Google feed, and I use SBM regularly as a source for LIVESTRONG articles.
#3 by Warren on April 27, 2011 - 7:03 pm
Well, there’s always my blog, which is occasionally acerbic. The look is good, though – reasonably clean & whatnot. Not quite as green as the previous one, which as I recall was very very green indeed.
#4 by kemibe on April 27, 2011 - 7:39 pm
In fact, Te Indigestible has been a welcome inclusion in our sidebar ever since we started this shithole. And I decided that going green was for pussies, hence the new format (I wish I could put an oil rig in the header). Actually, I like this theme because it’s not fixed-width and I prefer smaller, non-Times-style fonts.
#5 by Warren on April 28, 2011 - 3:50 pm
Well this is what I get for (1) not paying attention, and (2) assuming.
Yes, this theme resizes nicely, and I too am not particularly enamored of generic serifs.
#6 by crowther on April 30, 2011 - 2:28 am
Well, since you asked… I like to think that my Sing About Science blog (singaboutscience.org/blog/), or perhaps the whole site, qualifies as a cool science site. Since science songs occasionally show up here as well, this appears to be a topic of mutual interest. No pressure, though — especially since I can’t link back to you for various reasons including language and off-topicness….
#7 by kemibe on April 30, 2011 - 5:56 pm
Greg — done. I’m glad you reminded me of the site because I had stumbled across it quite by accident (as in, not looking for running bloggers) and then forgot about it as I usually do with such things. No worries on linking back; if we expected that across the board we wouldn’t have more than two or three outgoing links, given our heroically ramshackle standards of decency, restraint, and general taste.