OK, let's see if I can't get back into the swing of this blogging thing. Starting off, the 59th edition of Carnival of the Godless was posted yesterday at Aardvarchaeology. Have you been reading CotG while I've been shirking my blogging duties? No? Shame on you! Sure, you're not going to go to hell ('cause like the Xian god, it doesn't exist) but you've been depriving yourself of some of the best godless blogging around.

Secondly, this little blog carnival thing I do called Carnival of the Liberals was the featured carnival on blogcarnival.com yesterday. This is a brand-spanking-new feature at blogcarnival.com and I didn't get an e-mail on it until late in the day so I apologize for the post-hoc announcement. However, via this screen grab I actually had the foresight to take, you can see that Carnival of the Liberals #31 at Pollyticks.com was the featured carnival. Yay! way to go Blue Steel for putting together a great edition of CotL! Next up for CotL is The Greenbelt on Valentine's Day.

The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing On Science Blogs 2006: Anthologizing 50 of the best posts on science blogs.Finally, and I'm way, way, late in posting about this but I was honored to play a small part in helping to put together The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing On Science Blogs 2006. Kudos to Bora Zivkovic, tireless champion of all things science blogging, of A Blog Around The Clock who both organized and edited this collection of the 50 best (as suggested by you, and chosen by myself, Bora and 11 other wonderful bloggers) science blogging posts and to Lulu.com for sponsoring the project. I'll be adding an ad to the sidebar with a link to purchase the book directly from Lulu (at cost) but don't wait for me! Go buy it now. It's only $19.95 for the perfect-bound softcover. At 336 pages, that's only 6 cents a page and every single page has something well worth your reading. You can optionally buy the e-book edition for $8.69.

Oh, and one last thing... I intend (but I'm not promising) to return to blogging regularly but you can expect some more improvements (and maybe even a couple of major changes) to Neural Gourmet over the course of the next couple of months. I've already implemented a change to the way the site remembers log-ins and a 'Remember me' setting so you might want to log out, clear your NG cookies and log back in with the 'Remember me' box checked. This is still new so it might be buggy. As always, let me know if it is (better yet, let me know if you like it).