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I’ve only just noticed that people are looking for Jonathan Ross’s Twitter stream via my blog, so thought I’d make it easier. He’s here.

If you missed Brian’s Horizon ‘Do You Know What Time It Is?’ last night, and you are in the UK, it’s available on the BBC’s iPlayer.

Friend him here! You need to be signed into Facebook, but if it still doesn’t work for you then sign into Facebook and search for Jonathan Stephen Ross.

Phew! I can finally say something about this. Brian was up for Dawkins’ job, down to the final three (or was it four?!), but didn’t get it. And the winner is…

I was looking for a photo of me on Flickr and stumbled across these pics of Brian and me at SciFoo.
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A couple people in the comments have said they think Brian should take over from Richard Dawkins when he retires this year. If you’re on Facebook, you can join the Brian Cox For Dawkins’ Job group. Not started be me incidentally.

Honestly, this isn’t a blog just about Brian. That would be really weird… but… indulge me just a bit longer.

Some of you may have seen the article about Brian in the Observer today. Now, you guys are intelligent and realise that not everything you read in a newspaper is accurate. This was made absolutely clear to me this morning as I was sitting in my bathrobe, hair all over the place, barefoot, all coffee breath, unshowered and read, “he married his American wife, glamorous TV presenter Gia Milinovich, in secret.” :-/

Ah well…

**UPDATE** 02.12.08 More on Professor Brian Cox here.

Questions I assume people want answered based on various searches.

1. No, Brian is not gay. I’m his wife, not his beard. Amazing, eh?
2. No, Brian has not had botox.
3. Yes, Brian was in D:Ream.
4. No, Brian’s not evil. He’s really lovely actually. Doesn’t even kill bugs. Awwww.
5. No, Brian does not have a belief in God or Gods.

Excellent interview with Brian by Andrew Denton on ‘Enough Rope’. I’m not able to see video yet, but there’s an mp3 of the whole interview and a transcript. w00t! for Star Wars toys!

Mike Atherton aka Sizemore just told me about this article in the Independent about Brian and CERN and all that. woot!

I’m so loving the Sarah Palin pregnancy conspiracy theory. The election is well and truly underway, kids.

Wow! I only just read that Phil Plait is the new President of the James Randi Educational Foundation!!! Yayayayay! That is sooo massively cool. I know Phil, you know, he’s like my friend and everything. I know the President of JREF. I totally do.

Yes, Duchovny’s blogging for the new X-Files movie. My favourite thing about him has ALWAYS been his sense of humour. I loves me a funny man.

I can’t keep up with all of his interviews. This went up a few days ago. My favourite bit is in the intro: “And in listening to him you’ll get the sense … that you’re listening to he world’s leading candidate to replace Carl Sagan.“

The first clips from X-Files: I want To Believe have been released online. They are shorter than the ones shown at the LA Film Fest, but they are the same ones.