I'd Like To Thank The Academy...

Aw, shucks. My fellow bloggers have been very kind enough to say embarrassingly nice things about me while tagging me with two separate peer awards. Mark over at blogfish slapped me with a Bloggers For Positive Change tag while Craig at Deep Sea News handed me a Thinking Blogger Award. I'm actually touched that people read this stuff, so it's nice to get the props. Thanks guys! Though don't for a moment think I can't see through the horrid chain-mail-in-disguise of these "awards."

So now I have to think of five other blogs in the ocean or conservation world who best typify "thinking" or "positive change." The blogs I love who would make my short list have either nominated me or have alternatively been nominated in kind. But I think there still might be a few I can pass this curse award along to:

1) The Saipan Blog: Think Perez Hilton but not gay, not morbidly obese, and not blogging about trite, mindless crap that doesn't matter. But he does get as much traffic. I almost hate to nominate Angelo, since I think he already is getting an over inflated ego, but I love what this man is doing on Saipan to stir the shit, wake people up to conservation in Micronesia, and score as many pictures with hot asian go-go girls as possible. Angelo Villagomez for President!

2) Climate Shifts: Your one stop shopping for climate change news and views and overall round-up of politics and the environment. Written and maintained by Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from Down-Under, this site serves as my primary climate change information portal.

3) The Radula: Not always ocean related (despite the misleading title), but Dorid always has a daily dose of reality in her musings on topics ranging from evolution and atheism to mental health and love of nudibranchs. Plus she has the best T-shirt shop in the blogosphere.

Congrats, esteemed blogeagues! No prize, but you have my deep respect for what you do!