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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

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Martin Rundkvist Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.

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March 31, 2008

Tech Note: Handheld File Transfer Woes

Category: Tech

For the past two years I've been packing a soap-sized handheld computer named the Qtek 9100. It's a version of a design named the HTC Wizard, sporting a slide-out qwerty keyboard and running Windows Mobile. The machine's been good to...

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March 30, 2008

Britney Spears is the High Priestess of Swedish Dance Pop

Category: Music

It's a running joke around Sb that the single most popular blog entry on the whole site is one where a scibling calls Britney Spears the High Priestess of something not very flattering. In fact, as Spears's latest hit...

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March 28, 2008

Lind & Mörner Still Mucking Around in Ravlunda

Category: Archaeology

The last time these enthusiastic gentlemen interfered with the site, they were reprimanded by the County Archaeologist.

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March 27, 2008

Hayseed Dixie

Category: Music

Bluegrass music is rootsy acoustic proto-country. 70s heavy metal is bluesy electrified hard rock. Imagine what classic heavy metal songs would sound like if played by a bluegrass band -- banjo, fiddle, mandolin, bass... Imagine that. Imagine Hayseed Dixie!...

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Anthro Blog Carnival -- Pulp SF Edition

Category: Archaeology

The thirty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Hot Cup of Joe. Archaeology and anthropology from outer space!!! And check out the new Skeptics' Circle!...

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March 26, 2008

Tap Water is Not a Naturally Occurring Substance

Category: Biology

Water suppliers use natural water to make tap water.

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March 25, 2008

Daycare Sociolects

Category: Language

A dialect is split into sociolects, that have to do with social class.

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March 24, 2008

Cat Does Experimental Archaeology

Category: Archaeology

In an attempt to check out the view from the kitchen window, the cat created an archaeological pottery assemblage.

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March 22, 2008

Onion Peel Egg Dye

Category: Art

There's actually a use for onion peel. Wrap it around an egg, wrap egg and peel in aluminium foil, and boil the egg the usual way. Red onion peel dyes the shell yellow, while yellow onion peel dyes it...

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A Pox on Both Houses

Category: Skepticism

A reader has pointed out that a propaganda website friendly with the Chinese government and hostile to Falun Gong is quoting a recent blog entry of mine. She suggests that this means that I am aiding the government in its...

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March 21, 2008

Trick-or-Treating with the Easter Crones

Category: Children

Swedes have taken up US Hallowe'en customs only very recently and half-heartedly, the whole thing being driven by merchants. But we do have something like trick-or-treating: the Easter Crone custom of Maundy Thursday. Traditionally, there's no Easter Bunny in...

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March 20, 2008

Please Warn Me About Stupid Ads

Category: Blogging

Seed's recently taken up with a new advertiser, Proximic, that tries to put relevant ads into bits of the page that us Sbloggers don't control ourselves. Unfortunately, they do this in a mechanised manner that treats "relevance" in a simplistic...

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Concert Review: Crawfish Cook and Skandalites

Category: Music

Last night I had the pleasure of catching two of my home town's best live music acts, each playing in a basement venue a couple of hundred meters apart on Stockholm's southern island. The Crawfish Cook and the Skandalites...

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March 19, 2008

Pimp my Grant Proposal

Category: Archaeology

As I mentioned the other day, I'm hoping to do some Bronze Age research once my current project about Dark Ages magnate farms is done. The Swedish Research Council's annual application deadline is less than two weeks from now, and...

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March 18, 2008

Manson Cult Forensic Archaeology

Category: Archaeology

Having done some surface investigations with non-destructive methods, a group of volunteer investigators including Patti Hearst's Sharon Tate's sister calls for the excavation of the Manson Family's last hideout."Vass said that, considering the quantity and the types of markers of...

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March 17, 2008

I'm a Wikipedia Inclusionist

Category: NOIBN

Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia and most of its contents are naked text that hardly takes up any disk space. Thus there is no reason to limit the subjects its contributors can write about. Fans have written hundreds of...

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March 15, 2008

Unsuccessfully Grokking Prostitution

Category: NOIBN

Who are the victims? Who are the perpetrators?

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March 14, 2008

German Incest Case

Category: Skepticism

The incest taboo is a cultural universal, and most likely genetically determined.

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March 13, 2008

Dungeons & Archaeologists

Category: Archaeology

Lore Sjöberg at Wired celebrates the achievement of recently deceased gaming wizard Gary Gygax with an entertaining look at what it would be like if Dungeons & Dragons characters behaved like archaeologists.May 16 We have nearly finished our initial survey...

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March 12, 2008

PLoS ONE Journal Club

Category: Archaeology

PLoS ONE, the Open Access science journal, has finally published something with an archaeological bent: a fine genetics paper about the original peopling of the Americas. As part of their effort to stimulate scientific conversation about the journal's papers, they've...

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Anthro Blog Carnival

Category: Blogging

You must be a student of koryū, like me.

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March 11, 2008

Wikipedians, Check This Out

Category: Skepticism

The Wikipedia entry about Falun Gong is heavily biased.

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Tech Note: Diacritic Characters

Category: Blogging

I've twiddled some knobs behind the scenes.

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Guide Dog Activism and Allergies

Category: Health

It would pose no problem for allergics if guide dogs were allowed everywhere on Swedish Rail trains.

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March 10, 2008

Film Review: Spiderwick Chronicles

Category: Film

Three siblings move to a big old house and find the field journal of their great-grand-uncle who studied fairies.

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March 9, 2008

Mean Emcee wid' a Mastah Flow

Category: Blogging

Happy 51st birthday, PZ Emcee of Pharyngula!...

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March 7, 2008

Falun Gong Puts On a Song and Dance

Category: China

The Chinese authorities and Falun Gong: a nasty autocratic regime persecuting a nasty manipulative cult.

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Great Science Fiction Podcast

Category: Books

I've been a devotee of Escape Pod, the weekly science-fiction short-story podcast, for 2.5 years now. Its audience has grown and grown and grown until Escape Pod is now the world's second-largest paying market for sf short fiction regardless...

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March 6, 2008

Samian Pierre Resists Attempt to Move Viking Town

Category: Archaeology

Amateur scholars all around the Baltic argue that Birka was in their favourite spot.

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March 5, 2008

Back to the Bronze Age Again

Category: Archaeology

I am not a very good fieldwalker, though I hope to learn.

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March 4, 2008

Bodice-Ripper Archaeology

Category: Archaeology

We said that we really didn't know what to make of that pin.

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March 3, 2008

Book review: Prothero, Evolution

Category: Books

In the US you can't popularise evolutionary biology without taking a stand against obfuscating fundies,

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March 2, 2008

I'm Praised in Romanian, I Think

Category: Blogging

My on-line buddy Vladimir over at Diogenes's Bottle has blogged extensively and almost incomprehensibly about my humble personage. Just look at the possibly wonderful (or not) things he has to say about me!La început - e drept - ideea ma...

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