Via PZ and Janet, I see that this is National Delurking Week. Why it should be “National” beats me; isn’t blogging a quintessentially trans-national medium? Anyway, if you read my blog but you don’t normally comment here, why don’t you “delurk” by adding a brief comment to let me know you’re out there? (And not just this blog – do it for all the other blogs you read.)

(Of course this could be a very sobering experience… maybe all my readers are just bots….)