After two and a half years of posting on Choice in Dying, Uncle Eric MacDonald has finished. He is an ex-blogger. In “The Last Post,” put up yesterday, Eric explains that he wants to devote his time to either writing a book (my vote!) or pursuing a newfound interest in photography. Either way, I’ll miss […]
I couldn’t monitor the views to see the odometer click over, as they change too quickly, and I was in the air anyway. But yay for us!
As of a few minutes ago, I got this for the all-time traffic here: Given that we’re averaging about 20,000 views per day, this will pass 20 million some time today—assuming the regular readers will still check in despite my being on the road. I never expected so many people would check in, and I’m […]
When I posted a couple of new rules the other day, one of them brought a reaction stronger than I expected. That was my requirement that, when somebody criticizes me in a post on their own website, they can’t link to it on my site unless they provide their real name. Now of course some […]
WordPress sent me my year-end stats on Sunday, and I thought I’d put them up if anyone’s interested. First, the total views for the year. On August 21 of this year, I put up one post got the most views ever: “Kentucky Republicans realize that they screwed up: students will have to learn evolution!” It […]
As the number of commenters and readers has grown here, so has the degree of rancor, name-calling and vituperation on this site; and I often can’t keep up with the comments because of other commitments. So let me emphasize again a few long-standing rules. 1. Please do not dominate threads with your comments. If you […]
Oh for crying out loud; I beg the readers not to not lecture me on whether I want to call this place a “website” or a “blog”. It’s one of my “idiosyncracies,” as Richard called them yesterday, and I really don’t appreciate lectures (often with dictionary definitions) of what a “blog” is. Some of the […]
A new tweet from Richard Dawkins: There’s just one minor problem with this lovely recommendation; can you spot it? But believe me, I’ll accept it with alacrity. h/t: abrotherhoodofman for the alert
Click to enlarge. What would you give for this, knowing that every penny will go to Doctors Without Borders? (As lagniappe, I’ll throw in a sheet of Steve Weinberg’s mathematical calculations that he doodled during our workship.) More in about four weeks. No bidding yet! Oh, and yes, that’s Baihu’s genuine pawprint (Ben Goren, also […]
I don’t ignore my readers, you know. I know who many of you are, have email correspondences with some, and am proud of nearly all of them. And so, for two readers, here are special treats from the art museums of Vienna: First, when I saw this painting in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (the big art […]
