Pandering Frivolity

The baleful eye of the establishment media has once again turned our way, and judged us to be sordid muckrakers. Declan Butler at Nature has written about the largest science blogs, and we were happy to find CV in the top five, along with Pharyngula, The Panda's Thumb, Real Climate, and The Scientific Activist. (Plenty of room to complain about methodologies, but whatever -- suffice it to say that prize money was distributed quite equally.) The Technology Chronicles, however, has poked a stick at these would-be science blogs, and found that they succeed not by "politely debating the fine points of string theory" (ahem), but rather by "channel[ing] the static and political undercurrents in their fields." Nonsense! We have succeeded by writing about martinis and theWorldCup. To cement our reputations as light-hearted bons vivants, today's post is about poker. In particular, a quiz. For those of you not addicted to ...