OK, here it is - the chance to vote on the first ever Entry Of The Month, September 2007. To vote for an Entry, please make a single post to the appropriate forum below.

IMPORTANT: Please only post once to a single voting forum. Votes can then be quickly counted by adding up the number of posts. Please do not vote more than once. You may vote for your own Entry if you wish. This system is reliant on your goodwill and honesty.

There is a voting forum for each of these Entries below.

• How To Lose a Tour de France - a
  wry look at the current troubles dogging competitive cycling

• Jack Nicklaus - Golfer -
  much-needed biography of a sporting legend

• Salisbury - a cut above the
  average home-town Entry, with plenty of interesting history

• Prime Numbers - one of number
  theory's most important concepts was well overdue for a Guide
  Entry

• Dracula's Ancestors - fascinating
  observations on the urban myths of vampires

• Alpha - this might split the
  scientists from the non-scientists, but the fine structure constant is
  an intriguing concept

• Metaphysical Isms - the quick and easy guide to finding out what your belief status is.

• A Visitor's Guide To The Edinburgh Festival Fringe - an information-packed guide to a cultural highlight.

• How To Extract Your Own DNA - carry out real biogenetics at home!

• Capoeira - a graceful Entry about a graceful art.

Please note that, if several conversations start at the bottom of this Entry, the voting thread may slip off the bottom of the page! If you cannot see a voting thread for your favourite Entry, please click 'Click here to see more conversations' rather than starting a new thread. Thank you.

The starting point of EOTM is to gather a list of nominations. At this point, it would probably be a good idea to
visit the Unofficial Front Page Archives,
if you are not yet acquainted with them.

IMPORTANT: Please check the date on the Entry you are nominating. It happens that old Entries are sometimes put back on the Front Page for a 'second spell'. The Entry Of The Month must be actually first published in the month in question.

The second article of the month will be to vote on the shortlist of
nominated Entries and award EOTM status. I don't intend to have secret
ballots or any such rubbish, just a series of fora for voting.

This is either the crowning glory or the thorn in the rose - there
aren't any! What we're looking for are the Guide Entries that have
appealed most to Joe Public over the past month, and people are bound
to have different selection policies. Perhaps your vote might go to
Entries that have amused you, or maybe you'd rather nominate those
that are sparklingly written or on a topic you are particularly
interested in.

All an Entry needs to qualify is to have been put on the Front Page
for the first time in the last month - please check the date when
making your nominations.

Whatever your criteria, please add any of your own
nominations to the nominations forum below. The last thing I want this to do is
turn into a one-man show; I'm trying to practice democracy here,
dammit!

These are my personal favourites; if you'd like to nominate your
own, please post to the forums below.

• The Human Respiratory System - the most 2legs has ever written without mentioning badgers, nighthoover or the mysterious 'teh'

• How To Grow Broad Beans - they taste great with a bit of olive oil and parmesan, you know

• The Nerd's Guide to Pull-ups - because, let's face it, we're all nerds really, aren't we?

• Ligers and Tigons - archetypal h2g2: something you never thought you needed to know.

• Writing Systems - absorbing if straightforward stuff from the unofficial prince of the EG

• Frankenstein - the Legacy - first of a brilliant series of Shelley Entries

Again, I would like to emphasise that this is not a definitive
shortlist - please nominate your own favourite Entries. Voting will
commence next week.

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