Finnestorp War Booty Sacrifice
Category: Archaeology
People in modern-day Denmark had the custom of sacrificing war booty in holy lakes.
Posted by Martin R at 3:05 PM • 3 Comments •
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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.
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ICQ Gender Wars
Category: Psychology
"Errrr, do you think we might perhaps simply have a civilised conversation?"
Posted by Martin R at 12:39 PM • 31 Comments •
Anthro Blog Carnival
Category: Blogging
The thirty-third Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Greg Laden's. His blog is, err, like, laden with archaeology and anthropology....
Posted by Martin R at 11:51 AM • 0 Comments •
January 29, 2008
Video From Blog Con Hum/Soc Sci Sesh
Category: Blogging
Here's a healthy chunk of video footage from the session on blogging about humanities and social sciences that I chaired at the NC Science Blogging Conference Saturday before last. Much of it shows me and Jennifer Jacquet looking blank as...
Posted by Martin R at 4:16 PM • 0 Comments •
January 27, 2008
The Amazing Meeting 5.5, Plantation, FL
Category: Skepticism
A 1.5-day mini-con hosted by the Amazing Randi himself!
Posted by Martin R at 3:39 PM • 14 Comments •
January 25, 2008
Volunteering at the JREF
Category: Skepticism
Spent yesterday volunteering at the James Randi Educational Foundation, doing manual work and getting to know people. I moved furniture, cleaned up trash, painted a door and pasted errata sheets into books. And everybody was so nice to me!...
Posted by Martin R at 7:59 AM • 9 Comments •
January 23, 2008
Suicide-Inducing Florida Retirement Community
Category: NOIBN
Took a walk around the local geocaches, ended up trapped for half an hour in a nightmarish retirement community. Endless identical white single-story houses with garages and immaculate lawns, the streets deserted in the baking January afternoon. I was...
Posted by Martin R at 4:51 PM • 15 Comments •
Sim Florida
Category: NOIBN
Descending toward Ft Lauderdale airport this morning, I was shocked by the expanse of suburban sprawl stretching to the horizon below me. A huge drained swamp, all flat, covered by an intricate pattern of canals and streets and plots...
Posted by Martin R at 1:21 PM • 3 Comments •
January 22, 2008
Wish I Could Do That In Linux
Category: Tech
Back in April, I installed Ubuntu Linux on my oldish Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, bought in early 2005. Ubuntu's rapid boot process and snappy action has made it my favourite operating system (while I continue to run Win XP and...
Posted by Martin R at 12:15 AM • 8 Comments •
January 21, 2008
Build Your Life on Eternal Truths
Category: NOIBN
I just popped out for a burger at Arbee's, and I chose a seat with a good view of the full moon riding high over a Shell gas station. On the wall of the station was a large luminescent...
Posted by Martin R at 6:53 PM • 9 Comments •
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