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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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BromicAcid steps up again
Not only is BromicAcid one of our most prolific and adventurous amateur experimentalists, he's again donated to the Sciencemadness operating
expense fund. Thanks, BromicAcid! Your financial contribution helps keep the site running and your posts keep people visiting. What a great guy!
[Edited on 10-31-2005 by Polverone]
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Thanks to an anonymous donor
A member who wishes to remain anonymous has just made a donation to the Sciencemadness operating fund. Thanks to him and so many like-minded people,
this site remains up and running now and in the future. Believe it or not, my finances are tighter now than they were when I was an incomeless
student, so I'm very relieved that this site can run on user donations and not out of my own pocket. Hooray for Sciencemadness members!
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Thanks to an ursine friend of sciencemadness
Member TheBear has just joined the illustrious ranks of previous contributors to sciencemadness's operating expenses fund. I would like to heartily
thank him and all those who have enabled sciencemadness's web presence with their generous donations.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Woelen, another repeat donor
I just checked my gfxlist mail account for the first time in a week or two and saw that woelen has again contributed to sciencemadness's operation. I
believe that next month it will be time to renew hosting and domain names so this is a nice time to see another donation. Thank you again, woelen,
both for your financial and intellectual contributions to this site and amateur science in general.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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An anonymous donation!
Checking again, it seems that somebody made a $20 donation shortly after Woelen. I do not recognize the name or email address associated with the
donation, and I don't want to post the name in public without permission. Still, I want to say "thank you!" to whichever member or lurker made the
contribution. I just renewed the domain name for another year and I will soon be buying another year of hosting. Thanks to all donors and everyone
else who has made Sciencemadness what it is today.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Ramiel is awesome and should be thanked.
With an extremely generous $140 donation, forum moderator and all-around swell guy Ramiel has essentially paid for the coming year of web hosting. He
asked to be thanked with pretty plastic baubles. Since it is difficult to send actual baubles, show your appreciation to him with pictures of
pretty baubles.
I'll start:
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Thanks again, Ramiel!
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praseodym
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This is from me.
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mericad193724
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Here is another....
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Excellent news
Thanks to an extremely generous $300 donation by Ordenblitz, our hosting package will be upgraded again. We didn't really need additional bandwidth,
but we were growing very cramped for disk space, a problem that has recently limited Library expansion and the provision of a new offline forum backup
archive.
Additionally, attachment size limits will be relaxed somewhat and attached images will be made to display inline, to simplify future picture sharing.
For those who wish to use the more "traditional" sciencemadness scipics FTP account, I am going to raise the disk quota to 500 MB from 100 (~60
currently used) which should leave plenty of room for future expansion.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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An update, and further thanks to woelen
Another of our outstanding members, woelen, has recently made a donation to Sciencemadness as well. I initially overlooked it among the flood of spam
in my inbox, and hope that my delay in acknowledging it has caused no hard feelings.
Update on the hosting upgrade: I have requested the upgraded package from Micfo, and they said that it can be enabled as soon as the invoice is paid.
But the invoice was automatically and immediately paid from my on-file credit card. I have sent a reminder and I hope that the new package will be
online in 24 hours.
After it is activated, there will be a few minor changes. The maximum file size for attachments will increase to five megabytes from one. The
available scipics FTP space will be increased to one gigabyte from 100 megabytes. I will also set image attachments to display inline, to simplify
image inclusion for posters who don't want to deal with the scipics FTP system.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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The changes are now in effect. The FTP quota has been raised to 500 MB. Attachments can now be up to 5 megabytes in size. Common image attachments
will now display inline, as in this post.
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MagicJigPipe
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I will admit I didn't take the time to read this entire thread so forgive me if this been mentioned.
I would love to have some sciencemadness stickers, pens, magnets, pencils (to give to friends), patches, etc... I know those are easy to make/obtain.
I would buy them even if they were marked up substantially because it would be going towards a good cause. I'm not sure how comfortable I would be
with the money going to anyone but Polverone but nevertheless, I think it's a great idea.
I will donate sometime in the near future. Perhaps in 21 days when I receive my tax return.
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any
question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and
that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think,
free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Magpie
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I have just made a donation. Again I wish that it be spent on Vulture, ie, that he be allowed 2 mating sessions with the Andean Condor of his choice!
The single most important condition for a successful synthesis is good mixing - Nicodem
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Magpie, I just noticed your donation when I checked my email. Thanks for your contribution! I just renewed the domain name for a few more years, and
your donation has already paid that off. I also recently received a slightly smaller donation from someone who did not identify their SM user name. I
don't wish to expose their personal email account, so I'll just say "thank you!" to the anonymous benefactor, whatever name you may post under.
When I started this forum, I was a student long on time and short on money. Since around November of last year it's been the opposite: I have a
well-paying job but find an enormous part of my time taken up by it. I could pay for Sciencemadness entirely out of my own pocket, but I find it
encouraging that the members of this forum have made a community effort to pay for the infrastructure that we all use. I apologize that I haven't been
as active in moderating as I was formerly, but this site has always been about our membership and not me personally. I thank everyone who has made
Sciencemadness as good as it is, whether it be with original experiments, reference-hunting, financial contributions, or asking intelligent questions.
I've done a lot for this site, but the members have done so much more.
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franklyn
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My contrarian view
Those of you in the employ of academic institutions are accustomed to
having your hand out for endowment but you really need to develop a
revenue generating model for Sciencemadness. Providing a subforum of
dedicated links to suppliers and affiliated businesses to advertise for a
paltry sum , can be made available and will more than pay for your site.
You of all people must realize there is a real need for an alternative to
EBay for obtaining supplies and equipment. Be aware I live in New York
the mendicant capitol of the world and have heard all the pretexts and
remain unconvinced or moved by claims of insolvency. Call it bourgeois
materialism as you like , I expect a tangible return on my money and I
do not reward others un-enterprising folly.
The Cloisters medieval conservatory has all the money on earth in grants
yet has the audacity to solicit a " suggested " $10 or so admission fee.
When he visits it , my cousin who is a commercial real estate broker here
will lackadaisically submit whatever small change he may have , 59 cents ,
31 cents and a Canadian quarter , just to enjoy the reaction of the
pretentious snooty pages.
John D. Rockefeller was perhaps the most generous of all , he gave dimes
to people. His grandson David former chairman of Citicorp would not , I
can assure you , do anything so plebian as to fish in his own pocket for a
contribution , though he might very well have his social secretary arrange
a charitable ball ( tax deductible of course ) where emotionally moved
simpletons can in turn fish in their own pockets for contributions.
The Cloisters was founded by the Rockefellers.
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microcosmicus
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Exactly how much does it take to run ScienceMadness? Before discussing
particulars of how to raise the money, the first question is how much needs
to be raised.
As it turns out, I have quite some experience with trying to raise revenue for a
similar website, PlanetMath --- we even worked with a fundraising consultant
last year.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Sciencemadness is not terribly expensive to run. It's something like $25 a month for hosting and $15 a year for the domain name. Once upon a time that
was a pretty big expense to pay out of my own pocket, but nowadays it doesn't seem like much. That's why I continue to recognize and thank members who
donate but I don't actively solicit donations any more.
I prefer to keep SM advertisement-free. I don't think the aesthetic and organizational drawbacks of advertising would be outweighed by the revenue.
This is a low-traffic site, catering to a rare hobby, and if it's not going to be grand it should at least be elegant.
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Polverone
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our newest contributor -- Panache
Panache has just donated $20 to Sciencemadness. Thanks for your contribution, Panache!
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Polverone
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Prole has just contributed $10 to the running of Sciencemadness. Thanks, Prole!
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Polverone
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Hashashan has also contributed $20 to Sciencemadness! Sorry for not acknowledging you earlier; it had been a while since I checked my email.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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Thanks go to Mr. Wizard too for $10 contributed to Sciencemadness!
It seems there's been quite a rush of donations lately... either that or I need to check my e-mail more often.
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Eliteforum
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Can you send me a payment request from paypal to my registered email address? Have some left over money on a US bank card (in dollars) that I can't
use over here.
All that glitters isn't gold.
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Polverone
Now celebrating 21 years of madness
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New member Gon is so enamored of sciencemadness that he just donated $50. I thank him and wish him a happy New Year. Contributions like his ensure
that we'll be around for years to come.
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stateofhack
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I would like to make a donation, do you accept paypal and if so where is the email?
Thanks!
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Polverone
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Yes, paypal is accepted. See the first post in this thread for the donation link.
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