HOORAY! My blog has made it to the finals of the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards finalists for the second year running! This is great news, and while I don’t expect to win, I’d still like to give it a go to see what sort of an impression I can make on the polls anyway. As with last year, I’m running against PZ Myers, who came first by a landslide as would be expected as he has a huge following of incredibly loyal...

It’s that time of year again, when About.com hold the annual Readers’ Choice awards, and this year I’m hoping to make the top 5 nominations as I did last year. The final result of 4th place was a great testament to the passion of my readers, with my blog receiving 10% of the votes. If you like my blog, and would like to see it get a larger readership (I sure would) then take a moment to go nominate this blog on the nominations...

Well this book giveaway was an awesome success, with over 120 entries from Facebook, Twitter and on the blog itself. Thank you all for entering, but as is the case with all contests, there can only be one winner. Using the latest physical theories of prayer, psychic reading and homeopathy I have determined the winner is: Congratulations to Susan Malone who entered my competition via FaceBook! I will be in touch with you soon for details of your...

The Martin S Pribble blog is two years old this Monday, and to celebrate I have teamed up with Embiggen Books to put together a pack of essential reading for any budding skeptic, atheist or critical thinker. I like to call this the “Skeptics Survival Kit” and the best part is, I AM GIVING IT AWAY! Yep, instead of asking YOU for presents for my blog’s birthday I am giving one lucky reader this pack of four books for free! How...

Well the Michael Shermer Giveaway is over and I thank you all for entering. Unfortunately we can’t all be winners, and in this case 95 of you missed out. There is only one prize and in this case, the winner has been decided. Through a highly technical and cutting edge process of writing down all the entries on scraps of paper and scrumpling them up, putting them in an hat and drawing out one name at random, the winner is… …...

COMPETITION CLOSED! WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! As a way to say “Thank you” to you my readers, I have decided to give away a copy of Michael Shermer’s new book “The Believing Brain” in hardback, which I purchased intending to give it away here, and had Michael Shermer sign for me during my interview with him last weekend. Think of it as a present from me to you. You can enter my competition in one of three...