If you refuse to watch the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys etc. because you despise mass self-congratulation in the guise of competition, please scroll past this post.

Co-blogger Chris Geidner's Law Dork has been nominated as a Best LGBT Blog at the 2004 Weblog Awards, which just opened to the public. BoifromTroy and GayPatriot are ahead in early voting, but I'm sure that the law students, Ohioans, journalists and other cool people among De Novo/ Law Dork readers can catch Chris up to them. This is one of those polls in which you should vote 'early and often' -- you may vote once every day.

Although there is no "Best Blawg" category, please note the Volokh Conspiracy in Best Group Blog and TalkLeft in Best Liberal Blog. Also sadly missing from the Awards is a "Best International Blogging," which would have to go to lawyer and occasional lecturer Jonathan Edelstein at The Head Heeb, celebrating its second anniversary today by becoming an open forum for anyone who wishes to post there.