Raine Borg is the Keymaster
Category: Archaeology
The key we found most likely for a lock mounted permanently inside the lid of a chest or a door.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
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Four Stone Hearth
April 30, 2008
Category: Archaeology
The key we found most likely for a lock mounted permanently inside the lid of a chest or a door.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Humour
From UK rapper Elemental, an extremely witty song about tea with a funny video! Via Paddy K and Brass Goggles....
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 AM • 3 Comments •
April 29, 2008
Category: Tech
I'm messing around with Skype and I find it's working very well indeed. (Skype is in fact the only part of my linux installation that can interact with my Logitech USB headset.) So, Dear Reader, feel free to give a...
Posted by Martin R at 3:52 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: History
There are almost 1100 billion slots on your family tree in AD 1000.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 13 Comments •
April 28, 2008
Category: Archaeology
The chain of events is convoluted and quite fascinating.
Posted by Martin R at 4:02 PM • 16 Comments •
April 25, 2008
Category: Tech
I just installed Hardy, the brand new version of Ubuntu Linux, on the household's two Dell PCs. They're a Dimension 4550 mini-tower and an Inspiron 6000 laptop, and I'm happy to say that everything's running fine so far. (Almost.) The...
Posted by Martin R at 3:34 PM • 22 Comments •
Category: NOIBN
All the big old guys and gals in high energy physics should contribute tissue from which hydrogen and lead could be extracted.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 11 Comments •
April 24, 2008
Category: Archaeology
The thirty-ninth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Hominin Dental Anthropology. Archaeology and anthropology in honour of Maximiliano Gómez. He was the leader of the Maoist Movimiento Popular Dominicano (MPD), a militant organization opposed to the Joaquín Balaguer...
Posted by Martin R at 2:59 AM • 0 Comments •
April 23, 2008
Category: Archaeology
"Manorial farms, private churches and the genesis of parishes in the Omberg-Tåkern area in the Early Middle Ages"
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
April 22, 2008
Category: Film
There was a time, around the age of twenty, when I saw some pretty weird movies. First I lived a short bike ride from the Swedish Film Institute, where I caught Kenneth Anger and Luis Buñuel (neither of whom I...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •

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