Posted in Life on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
These are things I’ve bookmarked between the 23rd of June and the 27th of June. I may not have read them all yet.
‘I have never been happier’ says the man who won gold but lost God - Times Online - Can you ‘lose’ something that doesn’t exist? Does it make sense to talk about ‘losing’ [...]
Posted in Life, tagged History, humour, roman history on June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
HBO’s Rome continues on BBC2. If you like Roman politics but, like me, you don’t have the time for a whole episode then the Reduced Shakespeare Company cover the same period in a couple of minutes in the plays Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. The clip also includes a version of Troilus and Cressida.
I [...]
Posted in Photos, tagged Ancient History, humour on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Original photo by Eviljohnius.
I’ll be honest I don’t understand Lolcats, but I thought I’d try and get into the spirit of the thing. You’ve probably seen similar around the web, sorry teh web, and now you can make your own, sorry sorry, ur own with a tool from Big Huge Labs.
At a time when much [...]
Posted in Life, tagged academia, television on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
VideoJug: Stephen Fry: Learning
Posted in Life, nc, tagged academia, Archaeology, open access on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The Popping Cork. Photo (cc) Davepilsbrow.
Here’s a story which has been noted elsewhere quite a while ago. I saw it mentioned at About Archaeology a couple of weeks ago, but I’ll mention it anyway as it’s also very exciting. Internet Archaeology is moving towards an Open Access model.
If you’ve not seen it Internet Archaeology is [...]
Posted in Photos on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Montage of 1. Athletes, Villa of the Papyri, 2. Athens Acropolis 2007, 3. A centaur about to kick a bloke in the marbles, 4. Delphi, Temple of Apollo, looking towards the cliffs
Here’s something else I’ve missed recently. Recently the 5000th photo was uploaded to the Chiron pool at Flickr. That’s over 5000 photos connected to [...]
Posted in Life on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I hope I’ve just finished a chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. The actual re-write has been short, the problem is writing when the computers you’re working on shut-down through hardware faults or start smoking. Four computers - in the past two weeks, though I don’t know if they all count as one [...]
Posted in Ancient History, Life, tagged television on June 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday and today I’ve been helping out at a craft fair selling tankards, so I haven’t had time to watch this. Given the lack of time I have, I’m emptying out my drafts folder and this was in it.
Posted in Astronomy, Life, Science, nc on June 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Phases of a Lunar Eclipse. Photo (cc) Fort Photo.
Alexandra Smith has also told me that NASA have updated their Solar Eclipse calculator, which could be very useful for archaeoastronomers.
There’s a Lunar eclipse calculator too, which reveals that the first full moon after the battle of Marathon, a dark and bloody moon rose over Persepolis - [...]
Posted in Life on June 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After a request by Pappa Cambria, there’s now a Creationism group on Flickr.
Duane Gish card created by Pappa Cambria.
Membership is open to everyone, so you can add your own cards. Sometime before next Darwin Day I plan to write up the rules for Creationism: The Card Game (or CreationismTCG if I get carried away). I’ve [...]
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