Blue Collar Scientist

Welcome to our first annual roughly once-weekly recognition of the best comment on the blog for the past week, and the best incoming link from other blogs. Winners receive our kind thoughts and high regards. We reserve the right to award these valuable prizes multiple times per week, or to suspend the awards as we see fit.

The award for best comment of the week goes to Spiv, for his excellent comment on Of Ducks and Souls. As you will recall, the posting dealt with a news story about some people who believed that personality traits, and maybe pieces of the soul, were transferred during organ transplants, and that this accounted for a number of statistically probable certain coincidences. In the middle of a thoughtful and well-presented comment, Spiv let fly with this text which had BCS and Iatra laughing various parts of their anatomy off for several minutes:

The more I read, the more I was expecting to see a story mixed in there about how someone with a baboon heart suddenly started loving bananas.

Congratulations, Spiv, for being the first person ever to receive our entirely value-free award for best comment of the week.

The race for best incoming link was very close, so we’ve decided to award a tie. The Greenbelt wins for a droll comment that appeals to our dry sense of humor:

Recommended are a look at the new Indiana Jones movie (”Instead of fighting Nazis, Indy will spend a good portion of the movie working to accumulate sufficient grants for his field excavations.”) at Archaeoporn and Blue Collar Scientist’s look at a new book claiming that Sumerians observed an asteroid impact on Earth (hint: he doubts it very much).

Well, the “he doubts it very much” broke us up in part because almost the same phrase had been used in the recent meeting of Science and Skepticism in Anchorage earlier that day. But it is also true that I’ve been picking at the issue like an itchy scab. It’s just that it is all so… so… what’s the word I’m looking for? Silly, I guess.

However, Blake Stacey does at least as well for getting (and finding funny) a joke that nobody else remarked upon.

So congratulations, everyone, for winning, and thanks for helping ring in this new, narcissistic, and value free blog tradition-to-be of recognizing those who link back and comment in a witty or erudite way.

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