I've had the seagulls from Finding Nemo saying porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn porn in my head all morning.

No fair. Talk about an earworm. Geeeesh.

That's an awesome earworm.

I was almost over my cold, but was coughing a lot this morning, and took a swig of Delsym. Which is apparently now making my head spin here at work. Either that, or the massive bacon AND sausage breakfast burrito I had.

Regardless, I'm a bit useless now.

Good luck shrift!

I want to go eat in Kathy's cafeteria. It's free lunch day here, but the lunch is bordering on disgusting, so now I have to decide if lazy and cheap win out over my tastebuds.

Design your own shoes: Open Source Footwear

IS YOUR IMAGINATION ahead of the whole shoe industry and you're sick of waiting for them to catch up? Here's your chance to go over their heads and deal with someone who actually cares what you want. All that you need is that brilliant idea. Even just for part of a shoe - scribble it down and send it to us. We don't care if it's on a bar napkin, as long as we can make it out. So, fax it, mail it, email it, bring it in, just get it to us!

Will I Be Rich? Are you insane? Nobody gets paid for Open Source Footwear designs because nobody owns them. That's right: once you send us your design, it becomes public domain, freely available to all. We might use the whole thing, base a design of our own on it or just part of it. And your idea might only be for part of a shoe anyway. This keeps everything fair.

I just had the weirdest interaction with my boss. It was like I was getting reprimanded, but I wasn't sure what for, or what to do about it. Confusing!

Well, I just hope you learned your lesson, Missy.

Waaah.

Scola, that doesn't come across all stern when you are in that lounging jacket.

Mmm. Tasty Greek food for lunch.

It is very sad that I'm still metabolising the last shreds of dilaudid. I so very much want to go back to sleep, but at the very least have to swing by the centre and pick up my car this evening before I can lay down my head. Also--do much work.

Boo!

Right Wing Campaigns To Get Climate Skeptic’s Blog Named ‘Best Science Blog’ In Weblog Awards

At 5:00 PM (EST) tonight, voting will close in the fifth annual Weblog Awards, “the world’s largest blog competition.” In the competition, participants are allowed to “vote once every 24 hours in each poll.”

Currently leading the field in the “Best Science Blog” category is a website whose work has gone a long way in furthering anti-scientific interests, the global warming denialist blog Climate Audit.

Climate Audit is run by Stephen McIntyre, a Canadian and “former mining executive” who has become the darling of climate skeptics by challenging the conclusions of Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael Mann and NASA’s James Hansen.

McIntyre’s criticisms of Mann, which appeared in the non-peer reviewed conservative journal Energy & Environment, have themselves been challenged for “overstat[ing]” their case. Even McIntyre himself has admitted that “the significance of things has been misstated by [Rush] Limbaugh and people like that.”

But the right blogosphere has made Climate Audit’s shot at the Weblog Award a cause celebre and are using postings and “endorsements” to rally their support to push for a skeptic to be named “Best Science Blog”