Did you know that the Nobel Foundation has an RSS feed now? It’s almost as good as getting that phone call — you’ll be alerted to the prize winners the instant they’re announced.

(Thanks to Abel for noticing this.)

She’s the newest superhero on scienceblogs!

For a blogger, it’s like winning a contest by breathing. All you have to do is link to THE TRUTH, and some lucky linker will win a 30G iPod in a drawing.

Read the rules. SCQ also has a new monthly writing contest, you can enter that too.

This Canadian Cynic tells me I have to recommend this new blog, Progressive and Cynical. I think it’s because they’re Canadian and cynical too … I’ll go along with it since they bear the mark of the scarlet A.

His blog is now two years old, which means it is at that point where it’s very cute but has an infuriating habit of saying “no” a lot and throwing tantrums. It helps if everyone makes sure that he gets his naps.

We have a new scibling today: read Zooillogix for all of your weird and exotic zoological needs.

Hey, Carl Zimmer and I share one thing in common: it’s the hair. You can even see him on video if you’ve been wondering what he’s like.

I may be meeting Carl next weekend in New York. What do you think — after a few beers, do you think he and I should head out to the Village and get tattoos?

Well, I’m afraid we’re going to have to start a blog war with Creek Running North since he is neglecting his bloggy duties by shunning blog wars. It’s Catch-22, man—refusing to feud is an insult that instigates a feud.

Does he really imagine that people might read his writing simply because they like his writing, without the extraneous conflict motif to motivate us? What species does he belong to, anyway?

PSA: The Countess has a new URL, so update your bookmarks. If you’re wondering what she writes about the latest post there is about Kama Sutra chocolate molds, which is just about perfectly representative, I think.

By the way, we learn that the source of those molds is a company in Chicago. Now at last the real motive for the YearlyKos convention’s locale in the Windy City is revealed — but then, we all knew the dirty hippies were into that free love thing.

I still wish I were there.

So it seems that ScienceBlogs has a wikipedia entry, but there’s not much there, and of course it’s a little dodgy for Sciencebloggers themselves to write the entry. If anyone wants to improve on it, please do. Katherine Sharpe, our blogmistress (she’s the one with the whip, but it’s a nice whip), has dumped some basic information on the discussion page, so it ought to be fairly easy for someone to check the info and clean it up.