Congratulations!

You have been awarded the TPM medal of distinction! This is our second highest award for outstanding service on the intellectual battleground.

The fact that you progressed through this activity without being hit and biting very few bullets suggests that your beliefs about God are internally consistent and well thought out.

A direct hit would have occurred had you answered in a way that implied a logical contradiction. The bitten bullets occurred because you responded in ways that required that you held views that most people would have found strange, incredible or unpalatable. However, because you bit only two bullets and avoided direct hits completely you still qualify for our second highest award. A good achievement!

How did you do compared to other people?

The aim of the game is to get across the intellectual battleground unscathed. There are two types of injury you can suffer.

A direct hit occurs when you answer in a way which implies a logical contradiction. We have been very careful to make sure that only strict contradictions result in a direct hit. However, we do make two caveats.

First, because you only have choices between pre-selected and carefully worded statements, you might find that you have taken a direct hit because the statement closest to your own conviction leads into a contradiction. However, had you phrased the statement yourself, you may have been able to avoid the contradiction while expressing a very similar belief.

Such possibilities are unavoidable given the constraints on the game. We merely ask that you do not take it personally if you suffer a direct hit and don't get too frustrated if the choices we offer you sometimes seem to force you into a choice you'd rather not make.

You have to bite a bullet if your choices have an implication that most would find strange, incredible or unpalatable. There is more room for disagreement here, since what strikes many people as extraordinary or bizarre can strike others as normal. So, again, please do not get too upset if we judge you have bitten a bullet. Maybe it is our world-view which is warped!

Maybe I posted a little too much info on this test/game, but I was absolutely fascinated by it.

"It really can take a lot of time," he said. "I spend two hours a day on my weblog. Many people don't realize this, they think it's a quick way to get popular. And after awhile they get really discouraged and say, 'he got 2,300 hits today, I got four.' The bulk of people out there get less than two dozen hits."

Less than twelve? Wow! Guess I've gotten off to a good start, then.

Winer added that the technology behind weblogging still needs to get significantly easier for the [REAL] talent to come online. "What I'm interested in is the doctors and professors and engineers and people who have a good education and a social area of expertise. We need to really reach those people, we have to go a couple of levels in terms of ease-of-use."

Hey Davey! Let's play a game of "Shut the Mouthy"! You go first. Someday I would like to see a group of bloggers join together to create a non-profit organization for the sole purpose of collaborating new and creative ways to get little Davey Winer to simply stop talking.

"...For instance, Dennis Mahoney, who runs a blog with a literary bent, recently posted a few suggestions for bloggers he thought were boring. (One of them was to stop posting digital photos of 'everyday objects when, I'm sorry, it just looks like a bunch of shit lying around your house.') "

But Mahoney said that all he meant was there's plenty of "potential to raise the bar." In an e-mail, he said that he's already seen that occurring.

I wish they would have linked to the actual entry. I like reading other people's blogging tips.
:-(