My live video live chat starts at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (21:00 UT) today (Sunday May 4). If you look below and see my big head, then you’re good. I urge you to go to the UStream page, though, so you can participate in the chat room. If you want to change your nickname there, type "/nick Catherine Tate" (or whatever) in the text field.

I’ll be doing another live video live chat starting at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (21:00 UT) on Sunday May 4. I’ve been having some troubles of late with it, so I’m doing some fooling around with the software, but things should be working by Sunday. Check back here on on the blog Sunday shortly before 15:00 MT and I should have things working.

And have some questions ready!

Well, it’s more of a skirmish, since it’s just the two of us.

He has more readers, but I own the skies. Dropping a rock or two on the ocean would decide this pretty easily.

But how will it all end? Come to TAM 6 and find out.

Tip o’ the battle helmet to HalfMooner at Skeptic Friends.

My live video live chat starts at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (21:00 UT) today (Sunday April 27). If you look below and see/hear me nattering away about black holes or UFOs, then you’re in. I urge you to go to the UStream page, though, so you can participate in the chat room. If you want to change your nickname there, type "/nick JoeRogan" (or whatever) in the text field.

See you there! Oh wait, no I won’t. But you’ll see me.

The past few days have seen a large number of people commenting on this site who have been jerks, who have moaned and groaned over nothing, and who have been, really, just negative nellies about everything. I had to call one person out publicly due to a grossly inappropriate comment about me personally, as well. So here we go again: this is my commenting policy. If you don’t like it, don’t comment here on the blog.

The commenting policy is posted below. Learn it. Love it. Listen to it, or you’ll be wasting your time commenting here.

I didn’t want to do this, I really didn’t, but my hand is forced.

For some reason, this past week, I have had to edit a comment every day because someone has used "bad" words in it. I like this blog to remain, if not kid-friendly, then young-adult friendly. That means getting it into schools and such, and that means I have to be a nanny.

So here is my policy for commenting here. It is neither complete nor unchangeable. But this will do for now.

1) Be polite.

That’s it. That’s my rule.

That should be easy, right? Don’t go attacking other people, don’t swear, don’t be a jerk.

I reserve the right to edit out strong language and such. I will also delete comments that go over the line, or try to sell a product, or because I feel like it. OK, I won’t do that last part. The point is, this is my blog, and if you are being a jerk in some way I will take action. That may sound rather vague. Too bad. There is no line in the sand that says Here be good, there be jerk.

Look, when you comment on a blog, it’s like you’re in that person’s house. Be polite. Flush the toilet when you’re done, or, better yet, don’t foul the place up in the first place.

Simple, right?

Hey folks-

I’ll be doing another video live chat this weekend, at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time (21:00 UT) on Sunday, April 27.

You have options on how to do this. I have embedded a viewer below, so just come back to this blog post on Sunday at the right time, and you’ll hear me blabbing away when it starts. A better way, though, is to go directly to my chat page on UStream.tv. If you go there you can also enter the chat room and participate directly!

I tested this the other day and things seem to be working, so hopefully the software won’t fall apart like last time.

I just found out I’ll be on the radio show Coast to Coast AM tonight at 22:00 or thereabouts Pacific Time (05:00 UT Friday morning). We’ll be chatting about the Hubble images I wrote about this morning, and I’m sure I’ll get a plug in for the book, too.

Update: Well, that was fast! There must be a lot of news tonight. Still, it’s always fun to be on.