Britblog Round Up No. 24 is online

I mention the Britblog round up because among the posts on the IRA disarming and an update to ICE* is a post on a suicide bomber in Greenwich. From 1894. There’s also a mention of some Ice Age symbolism from some site or other.
*Thanks to Diana Milne I know that ICE is In Case of [...]

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Mapping Mars by Oliver Morton

Red Planet. Photo by Alpoma.
I got this with the Mars Reports I ordered from Amazon to fill out the order to £19 for the free shipping. It’s tempting to simply copy the quotes from the back and leave it at that.
“A brilliant, sustained achievement which presents not just our changing representations of Mars, but the [...]

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Becoming Binford: Fun ways of teaching archaeological theory and method by Clare Smith and Heather Burke

Jean Baudrillard, the only vaguely theory-relevant photo I could find. Photo by litmuse.
A couple of years ago that title would have sounded a siren in my head, “Run away! Run away!” It’s an article I found while browsing in the library to see if we had anything new. I found that we’ve got Public Archaeology, [...]

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Lintel Inside

Lintel inside. Montage by me - see flickr for source images.
This is an update of a poster I put together a few years ago. This one is, I think, legal. At least the source images are mine or else via NASA. It’s still a work in progress, I’d like a better lunar image than the [...]

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Ancient sex symbol discovered, or is this just a phallusy?

Ice Age Phallus. Photo by J. Liptak, Universität Tübingen
I saw the press release arrive and thought to myself that with all the possibilities of double entendres it could grow into something big. The BBC’s news story Ancient phallus unearthed in cave was the most discussed topic on the web according to Technorati. It’s not the [...]

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Vanity Publishing

I found an interesting comment by John at Nonsense Nation, which touches on a topic dear to a few bloggers hearts.
My Adsense income is pretty dismal. It helps with the cost of running a site but it is weak.
Someone (not me; I don’t have the time) has to set up something a la Link Exchange [...]

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More on Latour, We Have Never Been Modern

20041112183044191. Photo by Emile.
This is an image that comes to mind when I read some interdisciplinary articles or books. It’s often done very well, if you examine any of the areas closely it’s sound, but when you put the whole thing together something isn’t quite right.
I’m still working on a paper on the disc of [...]

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Traffic Spike

I’ve had a rush of traffic today. I thought it was another blitz by a search engine or casino site. Thanks to Kim’s comment I checked the Viking Name Counter.
I’ve got a feeling that’s come back to haunt me. I have a dream where I’m in a job interview, it’s going well and then someone [...]

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Perseus Search now active

I’ve now created a permanent page for the English translation Perseus Search. There was a delay as I was asked to produce Greek and Latin versions for it too. However it was pretty obvious that the reason I needed the English search was that the secondary sources in English. This isn’t a problem for the [...]

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Reading for Work Versus Reading for Pleasure

Cat reads? Photo by KitschKat.
This sounds like a rant. It might be. It’s not because I think some academic authors are spouting boring ideas. Rather the opposite I think there are some really exciting academics out there and it’s a shame that they seem to be doing their best to hide it.
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