"This
Yearly Kos will be a far left smearfest of unbelievable proportions... these far-left smear sites will use this gathering to try to intimidate people with whom they disagree. I mean, freedom of speech means nothing to these people." Bill O'Rielly
"We should nuke Las Vegas, that's what we should do - just prevent this whole Yearly Kos thing from happening." Ann Coulter
"I'd like to say to the good citizens of Las Vegas: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God. You just rejected him from your city with the Yearly Kos convention. ... God is tolerant and loving, but we can't keep sticking our finger in his eye forever. ... If they have future problems in Las Vegas, I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them." Rev. Pat Robertson
"A gathering of liberals, perverts, atheists and communists." Dr. James Dobson
What do the above fictional quotes have in common besides the fact that they relate to the incredibly cool and exciting Yearly Kos convention taking place June 7-11, 2006 in Las Vegas?
We won't hear quotes like these without your help!! Only you can help us annoy the above people enough to insure that they are ranting like this come next June.
What can you do to helpYearly Kos?
Right now we have a big project going converting some of the Science Friday diaries into a very exciting and very cool book! This project is going to be incredible. We have signed up Kossacks Devilstower and DarkSyde to contribute diaries for this project. DarkSyde has recruited some of the leading lights in paleontology to contribute in ways ranging from proofreading and checking the accuracy of the information to getting world renowned paleoartist Carl Buell to donate his artwork to the project.
In addition we have several individual Kossack artists contributing original art to the effort (we will have more information on them in coming diaries). To make the magic work, we have a publisher willing to make this all happen.
All of this is directed to producing an incredible book. We have set a goal of raising $15,000 towards Yearly Kos from the proceeds of this book and we need some help...
- Lawyers: we need some legal help drafting a statement to allow DarkSyde and Devilstower to retain future rights to their work. Additionally, we may need a little help protecting the rights of the artists involved - several of them earn their living from their art and we want to make sure we treat them right. To get involved email us at ebookvols.yearlykos@gmail.com with the subject line: law.
- Marketers: we don't have anyone with experience directly in this field. We need to generate PR buzz all over both the progressive part of the net and the science fans part of the net for this. To get involved email us at ebookvols.yearlykos@gmail.com with the subject line: PR.
- Artists: we still need some cool pictures and illustrations for the book. To get involved email us at ebookvols.yearlykos@gmail.com with the subject line: Art.
- Web Commerce Gurus: we are looking for a way to simplify and streamline the book purchasing process for both the Trollhouse Cookbook and the Science Book. If you have experience with this, we need you! To get involved email us at ebookvols.yearlykos@gmail.com with the subject line: E-commerce
- Any and all creative progressives: we'll find a role for you, just let us know you are out there! To get involved email us at ebookvols.yearlykos@gmail.com with the subject line: Volunteer
Now we come to the best part of the post: the contest!!
We need a Title for the book!
I keep joking that if it were a horror novel, we'd have it made - between Devilstower and DarkSyde there are plenty of choices for that genre.
The major themes of the book are shaping up to be:
Origins: where the universe came from and how it developed
Life: all of its wonderful, amazing forms
Evolution: from distant past to future possiblities
Science: its role in society, how it affects us, the future of
The End of the World as we know it... and what we can do about it it
Please post suggestions in the comments. Rate the suggestions. We will go through the diary and pick the most popular. There will be one more round of soliciting suggestions and then we will put the top scorers into a poll and let you guys pick.
The author of the winning title will get something cool... we haven't figured out what just yet. Mrs. DarkSyde ruled out our dream date with DarkSyde idea...
But we promise it will be amazing!
For more information visit Yearly Kos. Please go volunteer by emailing us at ebookvols.yearlykos@gmail.com! Please recommend so that we get a lot of eyeballs on this. Thank you.