Fairly crap. Dynamics of Cats: I have to admit, I was expecting to read about pets and kitty litter when I dropped into this blog. I know there are "star catalogues" and such like, but the punning is a bit beyond me. Stein Sigurdsson is an "astrophysicist at Penn State". The blog is about astronomy, but the number of posts that are tagged random will give you an idea of how scattered this thing is. Many posts only show up with the first paragraph, so the main page acts as an index, which means you have to click through to read each article. That's a pain. It also wastes the reader's valuable time. This deadly combination of lack of focus and a poor interface make the blog almost unreadable. Pretty crap.
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Article comments
1 - ggwfung
apologies to everyone, but my article got slightly reformatted. It could probably stil be laid out a bit better.
The "fairly crap" comment belongs with Dr Joan. Dynamics of Cats is officially "pretty crap".
I hope there is no confusion.
ggw
2 - Larry Fafarman
Ed Brayton (Dispatches from the Culture Wars) hypocritically pretends to support freedom of expression while he arbitrarily deletes comments and bans commenters. He banned me permanently from his blog because he didn't like my literal interpretation of a federal court rule. I argued that when a defendant offers an out-of-court settlement that would provide relief that is equal to or greater than what the court could grant, then the plaintiff has ceased to "state a claim on which relief can be granted" (FRCP Rule 12(b)(6)) because the court could not possibly grant greater relief than the out-of-court settlement (and FRCP Rule 12 says that this defense can be raised at any time during the trial, so this defense can be raised even if the plaintiff initially had a relievable claim), and therefore FRCP Rule 12 authorizes a judge to dismiss the case if the plaintiff refuses to accept the offer. The point where Brayton kicked me off his blog is here