John Barrell on Christopher Hitchens on Thomas Paine in the LRB is quite fun.
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The Other Virtual Stoa
It’s over at virtualstoa.org, though it doesn’t seem to be flourishing especially well.
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
Over here.
Tinfoil Hats
Please. God. No.
This, obviously.
On Maypoles
Over at Sharon’s Place.
Icelandic Saga Blogging
There’s not nearly enough Icelandic Saga Blogging on the web, so full marks to SIAW for leading the charge. I’m a Njal’s Saga man, myself.
(Actually, I think that everyone is really a Njal’s Saga person.)
Then he goes to Gizur and his band as they sat on the ground.Gizur looked at him and said, “Well, is Gunnar at home?
“Find that out for yourselves,” said Thorgrim; “but this I am sure of, that his bill is at home,” and with that he fell down dead.
Don’t Give Up The Fight
Rest in Peace, Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, born 21 July 1921, died 25 February 2005.
Killer Fact
Harry Hutton has an especially good one this weekend:
“In 2004 the works of Snoop Dogg outsold the works of Professor Roger Scruton for the 11th year running.”
Make Your Own Bayeux Tapestry
This looks splendid, and the kind of thing that the internet was invented for, though I will need more time than I have at the moment to explore it properly and push back the frontiers of mediaeval tapestry design.
Good stuff, via Early Modern Notes.