As mentioned, I had a chance to break some bread with uber-Geek book author Garth Sundem a few days back and posted a Bloggy pic.   But, as is common, we took more than one to try and get it right.  So below is the pic I posted from my article and then down farther is an 'outtake' that didn't make the cut.   

Can your keen eyes fathom why the waitress snapping the photo said that one was not so good?

When the Batphone rang in my office late Wednesday, I knew it had to be important, like someone being wrong on the Internet, because, really, no one calls me.  It helps that I never call anyone back(1).

It turned out to instead be everyone's favorite math geek, Garth Sundem.   He got an impromptu gig on a Sacramento morning show so he was driving up I-5 and wanted to know if Bloggy would be available to break some bread.   I could come along too, he said.

So break bread we did.  Garth is just as engaging and personable over a Fat Tire as he is on TV.

The Public Library of Science has responded to various new networks cropping up in the wake of the Scienceblogs Pepsigate scandal by recruiting keen writers and putting their brand behind them.

Advantage for those wounded by the Scienceblogs ethical quicksand - they can carry no ads because they have PLoS One (and it's projected whopping 7,000 pay-to-publish articles this year) to carry the revenue load for blogging and the rest of PLoS.  Plus blogging is not terribly server heavy so the cost will not be onerous.  It's just writing and people comment.  Pretty simple in both programming and caching.

If you just looked at today's cool link, discussing why editors at Old Media don't seem to get the value of links (but their salespeople litter online magazines with paid ones) I give you this great example:

Esquire magazine interviews our own Andrea Kuszewski and it appears online (in one of those horrid slideshows that annoys everyone yet has survived for 15 years) but they don't put a link.

We still link to them.  Because we are awesome like that.