Vidi
2008 February 23
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
Normal Distributions
Alan Cann has a helpful screencast on the difficulties of finding normality in small data sets.
BBC NEWS | Politics | British citizenship tests planned
“Immigrants who want to become British and settle permanently in the UK will need to pass more tests to ‘prove their worth’ to the country under new plans”
…says the BBC. That’s great news, so long as we can also apply it to other UK citizens as well as immigrants. All those people involved in the ‘even cheaper car insurance’ adverts – let’s put them through the test with a one-way ticket to Sangatte if they fail. Cliff Richard, Noel Edmonds, Chris Tarrant… it could create so much joy.
…says the BBC. That’s great news, so long as we can also apply it to other UK citizens as well as immigrants. All those people involved in the ‘even cheaper car insurance’ adverts – let’s put them through the test with a one-way ticket to Sangatte if they fail. Cliff Richard, Noel Edmonds, Chris Tarrant… it could create so much joy.
Callanish Stone Circle
Now available on Google Maps, this is probably the most complex stone circle in the British Isles when seen from the air.
Muhlberger’s Early History: Guantanamo terror trials fixed
How justice works.
Got Medieval: Ok, fine, here you go: some medieval porn. Happy?
To be honest I think I’d prefer the medieval cheese he was offering.
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : The hygienic dater
Comments on the difference between dates and reliable dates from archaeological contexts. Useful, and not just for the Pleistocene.
The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Some Thoughts on Future of Survey Archaeology in Greece (and the Eastern Mediterranean)
Survey should be simple. You go out look at stuff and record what you find. Bill Caraher introduces some of the problems with that, like where do you look? Is that your survey really related to ancient practice, or is it more a product of the modern landscape? After all you cannot fieldwalk a carpark – unless you really hate your survey crew.
antropologi.info – Museum Anthropology Review goes open access
It’s about making research available to the people studied. How many journals won’t be OA by 2010?
GUBA – Time Team 1998 – Mallorca, Spain.avi
The one with the archaeoastronomer in it. Watch online or download as an avi. I’d far rather watch it from 4od, but they don’t have a Mac-friendly option.
OS mapping system – Online API « BAJR
BAJR reports on a mapping tool which could be a major aid to archaeology in the UK. If the pricing can be sorted out.
BBC NEWS | Bodies removed as ground expands
Work starts on exhuming 50 Victorian corpses from a spot next to Somerset’s county cricket ground. You can make your own joke about watching cricket.
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : 2008 02
John Hawks has an example of archaeogenetics which I can get interested in. As he says it’s the historical awareness that allows me to take the genetics seriously.
