Build your own web aggregator the easy way

I read around 145 archaeology, classics or history weblogs. No-one sane has time to do all that with a browser so I would normally use an RSS reader. For instance Flock checks the RSS feeds of all the sites and then just highlights the sites with something new on them. So I can keep up [...]

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CA Deadline approaches

I almost missed this. Tomorrow is deadline day if you want to submit a paper for the Classical Association conference 2008. You can also submit a paper for the Teaching and Learning session, but again the deadline is tomorrow.
I’ll be there, but I’ve decided not to give a paper as I’m currently schedlued to chair [...]

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The Rotherwas Ribbon

The Rotherwas Ribbon before heavy rain.
A couple of weeks ago I went to visit Rotherwas to see the new discovery there. The photo above is of what is called either the Rotherwas Ribbon or the Dinedor Serpent. It’s been found during excavations to build a new road and it’s all a bit of a mystery.

A [...]

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for the 25th of July

These are things I’ve bookmarked on the 25th of July. I may not have read them all yet.

10 year labour of love to find bomber - “It is incredibly sad. These were young men doing their duty. I don’t know whether it’s because I’m getting older, but when you think the pilot was only 20 [...]

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Reviews in Archaeology

Reading Archaeology. Photo (cc) Queen Roly.
There’s an interesting post gone up at Publishing Archaeology: Why Aren’t There More Good Book Reviews in Archaeology? - the discipline, not the magazine. Mike Smith raises one of those points which is obvious when someone else mentions it. Why is there no archaeological equivalent of BMCR?
One key point is [...]

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Not damp, just working

Thanks for the queries about my absence from blogging. I’m not flooded, I live in a different part of the Midlands. I’ve simply been working. The only effect the floods have had on me is cancelling a trip to Oxford which is nothing of consequence. Especially when compared to what other people are facing.

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My del.icio.us bookmarks between the 17th of July and the 18th of July

These are things I’ve bookmarked between the 17th of July and the 18th of July. I may not have read them all yet.

Sherd Nerd: Four Stone Hearth 19 - The latest edition of the anthropology carnival is online.
Airminded · So yes, I am actually in London - …and he has the photos to prove it. [...]

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Blog Carnivals

It’s been a busy few days, in chronological order…
The 11th Carnival of Space is up. I noted it on the sidebar but forgot to mention it here. It’s the best Space Science and Astronomy blogging of the past week.
Four Stone Hearth 19 is live at Sherd Nerd with a round-up of recent Archaeology and Anthropology [...]

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The first experiment?

A view of Etna from Taormina. Photo (cc) Richard Carter.
It’s common to see the roots of science in the world of the ancient Greeks, but is that the same as saying the ancients had a concept of science? I’ve tended to be sceptical of claims of ancient science as it is often accompanied by modern [...]

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You versus Socrates

Link: PlayMyGame

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