You know when you've been Pharyngula'd..
...because your webserver rings you up screaming for mercy. Thanks to PZ Myers, top science blogger, squid lover and associate professor at the University of Minnesota Morris for his mention on Pharyngula. PZ on the Project here.
On a nakedly mercenary note, huge thanks to all who exercised their mouse fingers and donated today. When you're looking up the big hill we are, every donation cracks a big smile. It's taken a lot of work to get us this far - none of us are earning anything from this: no consultancy fees, no salaries, no dividends. We're doing it because we believe that the Darwin 2009 celebrations needs an icon for people to say 'look at that!', and because science - both as a profession and as understood by the public - matters. And we want to give Charles Darwin a big 200th birthday party.
And to that end, some people have started a petition on the 10 Downing Street (note to overseas readers: it's where our Prime Minister lives) website asking for Darwin's birthday, February 12th to be declared a public holiday. The petition is open to British residents only and those who want a day off in honour of the great man should sign up here.
Tags: hms beagle replica, Charles Darwin, voyage of the beagle, pharyngula
On a nakedly mercenary note, huge thanks to all who exercised their mouse fingers and donated today. When you're looking up the big hill we are, every donation cracks a big smile. It's taken a lot of work to get us this far - none of us are earning anything from this: no consultancy fees, no salaries, no dividends. We're doing it because we believe that the Darwin 2009 celebrations needs an icon for people to say 'look at that!', and because science - both as a profession and as understood by the public - matters. And we want to give Charles Darwin a big 200th birthday party.
And to that end, some people have started a petition on the 10 Downing Street (note to overseas readers: it's where our Prime Minister lives) website asking for Darwin's birthday, February 12th to be declared a public holiday. The petition is open to British residents only and those who want a day off in honour of the great man should sign up here.
Tags: hms beagle replica, Charles Darwin, voyage of the beagle, pharyngula
2 Comments:
I had an idea after a beer last night to hold a "Blog and Buy Sale" for the Beagle project.
It would be like a blog carnival, but every blogger would send something (beautiful handcrafted item, unwanted piece of tat, or somewhere inbetween) to one their commenters in exchange for a Beagle Project donation.
Darwin's birthday soulds like an approproate date. What do you reckon?
This is a great idea. I have agrage full of crap (...er invaluabe items) that I would gladly donate to this.
Actually, maybe there is a way to make it an ebay event. Sell some stuff on ebay and the donations go to Project Beagle.
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