My del.icio.us bookmarks between the 7th of July and the 12th of July
These are things I’ve bookmarked between the 7th of July and the 12th of July. I may not have read them all yet.
Iraq Quote of the Day – UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.
Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs – A novel use for Flickr which is either very exciting or very frightening or both. You can be removed!
Adventures in Ethics and Science: Does thinking like a scientist lead to bad science writing? – Another discussion of academia versus literacy. Plenty of discussion points here.
In the Middle: Who mourns for Lindow man? – Thoughts on seeing Lindow Man at the British Museum.
Textkit – Greek and Latin Learning Tools – Surely I’ve seen this before? But I can’t remember it. This looks like it could be an excellent site for learning Ancient Greek and Latin.
A rune stone in Hjortsberga parish, Sm 5 « Testimony of the spade – When I die I have PLANS. I’ll have to add the commemorative runestone to this. Again, beautiful photos.
Erect tombstones, grave fields and such. « Testimony of the spade – I could be persuaded that Sweden has the world’s most interesting Iron Age. Plenty of beautiful photos from Magnus Reuterdahl
Space Age Archaeology: The first seven years in orbit – Dr Space Junk is preparing a paper on material in low-earth orbit. I’m sad that I’m not in Australia, but that’s nothing new to me.
The long shadow of slavery – Daniel Petts puts a story about a Roman figure depicting a bound man into its historical context.
Nestor’s Cup: Anniversary and Adventure – Hurrah, it’s one year of Nestor’s Cup. Why not go there and send him your congratulations?
Early Modern Notes » The trouble with online bibliographies – A useful discussion of modern bibliographic tools. I’m really going to have to get to grips with Zotero.
Abnormal Interests: Possibility, Probability, Proof and a Reed Boat – When we talk about proving something what do we mean? In archaeology we usually lack proof so what he have are probabilities as Duane Smith explains.
Simulating the light of the past at Past Thinking – Light and shadow is an important part of experiencing a place which can be easily forgotten. Tom Goskar has news on work trying to shed light, or possibly not, on lost buildings.
The New Seven Wonders of the World – K. Kris Hirst’s phot essay on six of the seven new wonders plus one other.
It seems the Pyramids of Giza simply aren’t wonderful enough – Personally if I held a vote for the seven wonders of the world – and a pyramid from Egypt wasn’t on the list – I’d take that as evidence that my selection system was flawed.
Got Medieval: If medieval lesbians don’t get you back to blogging, nothing will – “There is at least one man employed by a major newspaper to go get drunk in exotic locations and then to write about it. I’m not much of a heavy drinker, but for the right salary and benefits package, I’m sure I could learn. My hat’s off to you, Tom Ches
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