(Update: the spam filter does seem to be picky, so please do let us know if your comments don’t come through. Unless you’re a spammer, I mean.)
We were temporarily down, after apparently being hacked into. Currently trying to upgrade to fix things. Patience!
We’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. This should mean, among other things, that we can retrieve comments that were mistakenly deleted by an overzealous spam filter. Let us know if anything seems to not work.
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30 responses to “Pardon Our Dust”
I see ya.
I was going to inquire if you needed contributions.
Helper cat? Is this the beginning of the rebirth of Cosmic Variance as “Cosmic Variance Can Has Cheezburger”?
“Im in ur manifolds compactifying ur dimensionz.”
“M-theory Cat Can Has Background Independence.”
CUTE! (sorry, couldn’t help myself)
Should we sponsor a contest for the best physics-themed lolcats?
Tom, we’ve never asked for contributions, although maybe someday we will. Or perhaps some tiny ads along the sidebar? But really, the fame and adoration of our vast reading public is more than enough reward.
I shut down comments on my blog because I couldn’t deal with the spam. What are you using??
WordPress has a plugin called “Akismet” that seems to work. We used to use SpamKarma, but it ate up too many CPU cycles.
That’s a hilarious picture. I suppose everyone has seen today’s xkcd cartoon?
In Ur Reality
Cosmic Variance should participate in Project Honey Pot (it’s free of charge).
“Im in ur comitee denyin ur tenur.”
“Im in ur loopz renormalizin ur coupling constants”
“Im in ur landscape choosin ur parameturs.”
“I can has an inflaton.”
“Im in ur vacyoom eatin ur Higgs.”
For Scott Aaronson:
“Im in ur oracle solvin ur NP-compl33t problemz.”
Science-Themed Lolcats…
All right, I’ve resisted long enough. Sean Carroll has now officially asked if Cosmic Variance should host a physics-themed lolcat contest. My answer:
You’re going to regret this.
I’ve already tossed out a few:
“Im in ur manifol…
i can has nobel prz?
*LOL* You guys totally have to have an I Can Haz Cheezburger?! Theoretical Physics Edition post now!
But, the real question is….has the cat revealed the location of THE RING yet? Enquiring minds want to know!
Does this mean that if I wrote one of those comments that was deleted by your overzealous spam filter, that I should resend?
Yep. It will continue to be possible that comments will be eaten; but now, if you let us know, we should be able to recover them.
Im in ur carpetz leavng dark matter.
Your overzealous spam filter picked up one comment of mine for the thread: Open Systems (this happened before). I embedded two links in those sentences, so maybe that was too much?
Amara, I think I recovered it — just continue to let us know, hopefully we can train it to trust you.
Iz in ur computer minin ur quotes