Vidi
2008 March 6
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
On Planets X and Names
via A Blog Around the Clock, Archy has details on where the modern planet names came from.
Zenobia: Empress of the East: Was Philip the Arab a Secret Christian?
Picking history from rumour in the 3rd century texts is not an easy business.
Got Medieval: Whither the Chainmail Bikini?
I’m struggling with the concept that Helga is only 1 millihelga on the Pyrdum Scale of Viking Sexiness. As for sexiness of Viking women in general I’ll need more time to study that. I don’t want to jump to any hasty conclusions.
Iconoclasm » The “Auditorium of Maecenas”
Auditorium or fountain? If it’s the former then it’s an astonishingly small orchestra and stage.
BBC NEWS | British ’studied’ Hitler’s stars
“One of our senior officers comments that he cannot believe that anyone is going to re-employ this dangerous charlatan and confidence-trick merchant,” a report from MI6 said.
Magellan entry level GPS/GIS mapping handheld « BAJR – Blogging
The integrated camera could be a very useful thing for survey.
BibliOdyssey: Permission Unpossible I
Thoughts on the problems of copyright and the production of a book. Pretty important reading for anyone with an interested in copyright and the web.
In the Middle: Seamus Heaney on Tara
Was Tara better protected by the British? Seamus Heaney is going for the throat.
