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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Four Stone Hearth
September 30, 2008
Category: Gaming
I'm reading Steven L. Kent's engrossing 2001 book The Ultimate History of Video Games, and of course it reminds me of a lot of games I played as a kid. My first real video games were played on the...
Posted by Martin R at 9:09 AM • 11 Comments •
September 29, 2008
Category: Books
My erudite friend Florence Vilén (historian of religion, haiku poet, aficionado of gems and classical music) has published her first novel in Swedish. Tungelblodet ("Blood of the Moon") is high fantasy set in a northern archipelago where wind-witches help fishermen...
Posted by Martin R at 1:36 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Humour
I was contacted on Yahoo Messenger today by a chatbot named Alexandra Buford. She greeted me in a foreign language, so I thought it polite to reply likewise.Alexandra: yhneb martinrund Martin: yhneb Alexandra: Hi martinrund. it's Alexandra. Martin: yhneb Alexandra:...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
September 28, 2008
Category: Poetry
For decades, Stockholm has been the turf of photocopy artist Renate Bauer. She paints too, but her main mode of expression is hand-written prose-poetic screeds covering every square centimeter of the paper. These she photocopies and fixes with sticky...
Posted by Martin R at 4:00 AM • 5 Comments •
September 27, 2008
Category: Archaeology
I've painted myself into a reasonably well-funded gentleman-scholar corner.
Posted by Martin R at 3:54 AM • 23 Comments •
September 26, 2008
Category: NOIBN
There is a discussion going on at Wikipedia regarding certain facets of the on-line encyclopedia's controversial notability policy. At heart, it's about where the line should be drawn between notable subjects (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and non-notable ones (Shitty Arnie, my...
Posted by Martin R at 12:09 PM • 5 Comments •
September 25, 2008
Category: Archaeology
Cartridges are large chunks of brass, which would make them obtrusive even if they were just spheres.
Posted by Martin R at 12:40 PM • 16 Comments •
September 24, 2008
Category: Archaeology
The dig closes eight days earlier than planned.
Posted by Martin R at 3:23 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Blogging
The fiftieth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Yann Klimentidis' Weblog. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about Belqas, a town in the north-western corner of the Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt. Belqas comprises in its jurisdictions the well known resort...
Posted by Martin R at 2:08 PM • 0 Comments •
September 22, 2008
Category: Blogging
Everybody with an interest in anthropology and archaeology -- it's time to contribute good new blog entries to next week's Four Stone Hearth blog carnival. You needn't have written them yourself: if you've found something worth reading recently, submit it...
Posted by Martin R at 12:51 PM • 0 Comments •
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