My del.icio.us bookmarks between the 24th of August and the 5th of September

These are things I’ve bookmarked between the 24th of August and the 5th of September. I may not have read them all yet.

• What are historians good for? – An excellent R&D debut post from Sage Ross who asks what the point of it all is.

• Can the art of a paedophile be celebrated? – A victim of a paedophile teacher has asked for his music textbooks for children to be banned. Does the work, or the art, of someone who has committed such a crime have to be condemned?

• Who owns the past? – An old chestnut for undgraduate essays, but a real problem in North America.

• Pathetic Motorways – Secretive – The motorways in the UK that the government doesn’t tell you about.

• Just what is it about Keynote that is changing the way people present? For the better! – I plan to blog about Keynote some time in the future. It’s not hugely different from PowerPoint, but it *is* different.

• Feast: Why Humans Share Food – Martin Jones – a book review of Feast – K. Kris Hirst adds another book to my ‘to read when I get spare time’ pile.

• Electric Roulette: FAC 501 – Tony Wilson gets the last FAC number. via Orbis Quintus.

• EDP24 – Seahenge saga comes full circle – Seahenge is returning to Norfolk according to this article with video.