PZ reminds us that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis‘ suicide. “Atmosphere” is one of my favorite Joy Division tracks and it was used to great effect at the end of Anton Corbijn’s 2007 bio-pic Control (which is well worth watching).
(As PZ also notes, it is also the 30th anniversary of the Mount St. Helen’s eruption, an event much beloved by young earth creationists).
A year ago, this blog moved from Scienceblogs to its current digs. Since then, there have been over 300,000 page views, with the busiest day being April 27th (with over 30,000 views to this post, which coincidently is the most viewed post on this blog with over 162,000 views).
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If only because I know it will annoy some folks …
And for completeness sake, here is the original trailer from Grindhouse.
I usually get ~300 pageviews a day here, particularly if I’m not posting much. About ten days ago, I started getting 2000+ hits per day. Two days ago this rose to 15,000 and yesterday to 30,000+. The reason? This post got Stumbled upon ten days ago and clearly went viral in the past 48 hours.
Update (5/4): In the past week, i.e. since the original post, there have been a further 51,817 hits on the post. Back in my Scienceblogs days, I’d have been making a relative fortune on this 
If you follow hockey, you’ll know that Matt Cooke (Penguins) dealt Marc Savard (Bruins) a season-ending cheap shot last month, the latest in a series of dirty hits that have marked Cooke’s otherwise meaningless career in the NHL. As Don Cherry pointed out, Cooke is a “gutless, backstabbing little fu[cker]“. Last night, Cooke attempted to pick a fight with the wrong guy – Evander Kane of the Thrashers. The 18 year old shows him karma in action.
Just a reminder to readers in the Greater Phoenix area that the AzCoR screening of Creation will be tomorrow (Friday) at 6:05pm at Harkins Valley Art Theatre (Mill Ave, Tempe). The screening itself will be followed by a Q&A of up to 45 minutes with me where I will answer your question on Darwin etc. Come one, come all.
Wilkins has a good post with much to agree with:
Look, I don’t care if atheists are aggressive or not. Certainly being excluded themselves, they have the right to be loud and proud. I think they should speak out at every turn. But does that require that they must denigrate and belittle those who don’t entirely agree with them? Must they turn into what they themselves despise? It seems, sadly, this is the human condition. But don’t pretend to be the vanguard of rationality when you are just as irrational and tribal as everyone else. The term for that is not “rational”, but “hypocritical”.
I’ve been informed that – due to circumstances beyond their control – Arizona CoR has had to move the screening of Creation that was scheduled for Friday to Friday March 12th. Unfortunately this means that Jane Maienschein won’t be available, but I will still be there to answer questions after the viewing. The screening is at Harkins Valley Art Theatre (Mill Ave, Tempe) and will begin at 6:30pm.
Things are likely to be a little quiet here for a while for a number of reasons. The ASU portion of the Tyndall Project is finally getting off the ground, our search is moving onwards, and grading starts this week. Be back soon(ish)!
From the Arizona Central website. Apparently nearly 20% either believe (or are unsure) that Andrew Stack was a “patriot”.
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