Many of you may remember when Phil Plait used to post here as The Bad Astronomer. Many of you may follow his blog. I had the honor of meeting him at The Amaz!ng Meeting 6 last weekend and I gotta tell you, the man is pure, distilled awesome.
Today, against all odds, he has just gotten that much more awesome.
His blog is on Discover Magazine’s website! Everyone go there right now! And then go to Facebook and friend him.
(ps: I told him that the boards are back to free posting, so maybe he’ll come back. He’s a totally busy man tho, what with his new book Death From The Sies!, his blog, and his general being awesome, so who knows)
It was up briefly earlier today, but now the URL goes to his old blog site. I think they’re still working out the technical stuff.
ETA: for a while the badastronomy.com URL was re-directed to the Discover site, but now it isn’t (?)
I hope they’ll still let him post about anything and everything (Doctor Who, religion vs. science, pareidolia, etc.) on the Discover site, and won’t insist he stick to astronomy. I doubt he would have agreed otherwise, but you never know.
I love the Bad Astronomer! I had no idea he was a Doper, although it comes as no surprise really. The Straight Dope and Bad Astronomy are both in the business of fighting ignorance.
