phil plait

So a few of you may know that after my brilliant talk at TAM5, I was quickly whisked away to embark on an adventure. It involves the slammer, a slight factor of fear, and of course a vast conspiracy of such epic proportions that it cannot, in fact, even exist. Therein lies the tale. Enjoy.

I am known as many things: a brilliant mind, a clever skeptic, a lover of skepchicks. But I am also a fiendish Minties addict. These tasty nodules of sticky filling-removing heaven are unavailable for reasonable fees in the US, so here's the two-step deal: 1) Aussies, if you are coming to TAM...

Randi has an intro in the new Skepticality podcast where he chats up TAM 5! Rebecca has a brief interview on it too, from TAM 4, and then I ramble on about silliness. There's lots of nudity, but it's a podcast. Possibly that's a good thing. If you don't listen to Skepticality, what's wrong...

Chapter 15 of "Bad Astronomy" by Phil Plait argues that meteors don't start fires. But in this story from Yahoo and Reuters, trained police officers say otherwise: For those who are a little slow on the uptake, I am not seriously suggesting that the German cops know more about meteors than BA does.

As of this writing, Phil Plait's little column is posted next to Alec Baldwin's at The Huffington Post. Read Phil's column. You can skip Baldwin's. (singing) You are worfress Arec Bawrin, You are worfress Arec Bawrin... You have faiwred in every way And now my stock in you has fawren....

Phil has an editorial here. Also, note on the right side of the page is Randi's pic plus an ad for TAM. How cool is that?

3 x mp3 files of my old mate, Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer on the radio a few days ago. Folks, he is no drongo. http://rapidshare.de/files/16532381/phil_plait_cfun.mp3.html http://rapidshare.de/files/16533628/phil_plait_cfun_01.mp3.html...

Today on the radio in St. Louis. From the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today Forum: Details (including hearing it over the Net) at: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/

Hi, my name is Phil. (Hi, Phil!) I haven't had a Mintie in six days. (no applause, just scattered disbelief) Right. When I was in Oz last year, I got addicted to Minties. I must have them! Alynda has sent some to me, and so has Richard Saunders, but alas, they go quickly. Even with the...

Having slagged off a richly deserving someone from last weeks commentary (Nancy Grace, may she apend eternity in obscurity), I feel it necessary to praise someone from another commentary. Happily, Phil Plait gave me this opportunity by having a very concise and to the point speech featured this...

It's Good to spend time with The Bad Astronomer! Phil_Plait_702_02.wma 17-Nov-2004 08:44 1.6M http://www.users.on.net/~ct/skeptic/audio/ :)

It was a pleasant surprise to see the http://badastronomy.com site in the Houston Chronicle Technology section. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/weekly/2428226 Here's a quote Way to go Phil!

For those of you who didn't get enough of Phil "The Bad Astronomer" Plait at the TAMII, or didn't get to TAMII at all, now is your chance to catch him on the InfidelGuy Internet Radio Show this Friday at 8 PM EST. You can call in during the show to ask Phil questions or comment by dialing toll...

This was an interesting NY Times magazine article from today (2/9) on moon landing deniers and conspiracy theorists... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/09/magazine/09MOON.html