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Kicks (Apr 29 2004 02:59 GMT) - I passed up those Reebok Imatoonz kicks a while back, but I'm not sleeping on these. Straight fire by Katsuya Terada.... |
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Eighty-four (Apr 29 2004 02:59 GMT) - Not the lumber firm, or anything Orwellian; it's Carnival of the Vanities #84, assembled by Trudy at WOLves for your dining and dancing (okay, reading) pleasure. No lumber. Really.... |
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- Apparently some children are being left behind. |
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- Once a certificate signing request (CSR) is created, it is possible to view the detailed information used to create the request. |
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- The ability to perform tasks from a system's command line allows those tasks to be used in batch files. This recipe describes several uses of taskkill to terminate Windows processes. |
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- short of money? not any more |
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- Check out this thorough article appeared at News.com recently, it's very useful when it comes to understand why blogs can be the hottest online picks for advertisers. The coming of the blogs Chat rooms and newsgroups have traditionally been... |
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- There's a new Web site I'm working on. Looking forward to that going fully live. We're going to be doing some pretty killer stuff over there.... |
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- Yoplait has introduced new Yoplait Ultra yogurt with 8 grams of carbs per cup. The product offers "a creamy, fruity option with the great taste people expect from Yoplait, but with 70 percent less carbs and sugar than regular low... |
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- New CD reviews up on Rainlore's World of Music are - Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble - Vessel of Song (It's a... |
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- New CD reviews up on Rainlore's World of Music are - Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble - Vessel of Song (It's a... |
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- This is the online version of the printed publication, the Revista de Estudios Ibéricos, which takes as its central theme Iberian archeology and ancient Iberian culture. Its scholarly articles discuss such topics as: Iberian painted pottery; ancient Iberian sculpture; iconographic figures from IV to II BC; |
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- "pl.hum.poezja" is a Web Site published by a collective of Polish poets. The site also has an excellent section of classic Polish poetry that is not always included in the scholarly canon, featuring lesser known works of: Jan Andrzej Morszty?; |
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- The Web Site "Images et conaissance de la licorne (fin du moyen-age - XIXème siècle)" is in French and consists of the doctoral thesis of Dr Bruno Faidutti entitled "Images and knowledge of the unicorn (end of the middle age - XIX century)". It was submitted to the Université Paris XII in 1996. The thesis is published online as a text with illustrations and therefore it is easy to navigate through its three large chapters. Subjects treated include: the legends of the unicorn; |
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- The Web Site "East, central and south-eastern Europe to 1772" is an excellent, illustrated resource which provides a set of study notes on the history of the area from 500 CE to 1772. The notes are written in an extremely comprehensive way and relate to the students' knowledge of current affairs and the twentieth century. Aimed at undergraduate historians, Professor Ciencala's notes are a great resource for anyone wanting to gain an overview of the subject, and can also be used by teachers as a useful resource. Topics covered include: the naming of the regions; |
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- The Web Site "Nationalism and communism in east central Europe" is an excellent resource compiled by Professor Anna Ciencala of the University of Kansas. It is the frontpage of an extremely replete set of lecture notes on the history of East, Central, and South Europe, which provides an excellent introduction to the history of the area prior to the eighteenth century, but which takes as its main focus the period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are comprehensive sets of lecture notes covering subjects such as: the decline and the partitions of Poland; the national renascence of the Balkan peoples in the 19th century; |
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- "Domestic problems and foreign policies of interwar East European states" is a Web Site compiled by Professor Anna Ciencala of the University of Kansas. It consists of comprehensive lecture notes on the period 1918-1939, a crucial time of flux for states, old and new, of East Europe. She discusses the implications of federalization within the retrospective approaches of historians discussing the area, who mainly had roots in the areas, and also within the contemporary perspectives of the time. The notes are well-illustrated and examine the following subjects: interwar Poland - economics, education, social services, women, the arts; |
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- On-line reports of a multi-disciplinary archaeology project in the Upper Tigris valley in south-eastern Turkey led by the University of Utah, a relatively unexplored area which is increasingly threatened by modern economic development such as dam construction. Defined in classic core-periphery terms, this region acted as a frontier zone, from the 4th and 3rd millennia BC onwards, between the expanding urban societies of Mesopotamia and the relatively underdeveloped, but resource rich, areas of the Anatolian highlands. UTARP is a long-term project, initiated in 1998, which combines broad-scale landscape approaches with more intensive survey and exploration based on settlement sites such as Boztepe, Talavash Tepe and Kenan Tepe, the last of which is the focus on a long-term excavation project. A particular theme is the relationship between local populations and the colonial and economic powers who attempted to dominate this area from the Ubaid period onwards and as late as Assyrian, Persian and Hellenistic periods. The website provides a series of detailed annual reports (including specialist accounts of mettalurgical and other artefactual material) from a variety of sources outlining the results of successive campaigns since 1999, though it is unclear from the website if the project has been affected by political problems in the region. |
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- The CRC Humanities Research Studio publishes Edmonton Scrapbooks, an online project that forms part of the centennial celebrations taking place in Edmonton in 2004. On the site are digitised scrapbooks that are related to the twentieth century history of Edmonton. The quality of the digitisation is fantastic, and enables the user to really experience the scrapbook medium. Amongst the most fascinating books available is one of TIME journalist Ed Ogle's career in the 1980s. The scrapbooks can be searched by keyword, or browsed by title, author, category, and year. |
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- The International Bibliography of Discoveries and Overseas Encounters is published by an academic at the Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal. This immense bibliography lists studies and printed resources that deal with Portuguese overseas expansion, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. The imperial expansion of other European countries is also covered, and the lengthy contents list allows users to browse through the myriad topics included. The bibliography includes works in a variety of languages, and the bibliography itself can be accessed in Portuguese or English. This is an exhaustive source, which references almost all areas of study related to European colonial history. |
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- This web site, written by an architect, provides a history of the western square-rigged sailing ship, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The study is laid out in chapters, complete with illustrations of the ships and specific features on them. The chapters run chronologically, looking in turn at the two-masted ship, the carrack, the galleon, the ship-of-the-line, and the full-rigged ship. Each chapter describes the development of the model in question, and highlights the difference between ships built in different countries. Also available on the site is a bibliographic page listing related books and web sites. |
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- Ziyaret Tepe is a large man-made mound or Tepe on the banks of the Tigris in the Diyarbakir province of south-eastern Turkey which appears to have been the Neo-Assyrian capital of Tushan established by Ashurnasipal II (reigned 884-859 BC). This website offers an brief, attractively illustrated guide to the site which has been excavated since 1997 by an international team of scholars led by Timothy Matney of Akron University, Ohio and Lynn Rainville of Sweet Briar College, Virginia. It provides a useful source of information about on-going excavation and past research at this important, but largely unexplored, settlement, and will benefit undergraduates and researchers working in Near Eastern archaeology and history. Ziyaret is located in a highly strategic position connecting upper Mesopotamia with the Anatolian highlands, a position which gave it considerable commercial and military activity significance in Bronze and Iron Ages, particularly in the context of Assyrian imperial expansion. The excavations suggest that the settlement itself was occupied as early as the Early Bronze Age (c3000 BC) as well as producing evidence for activity as late as the Roman period. |
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- The South Seas project was devised by Professor Paul Turnbull, and is published by the National Library of Australia. It provides an excellent online resource on the history of European voyaging and exploration in the Pacific during the eighteenth century. On the site users can access a whole range of primary and secondary source material. Most impressive are the online copies of the Endeavour journals of James Cook, Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson, and all three volumes of John Hawkesworth's 'Account of the Voyages...in the Southern Hemisphere. |
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- This is a n excellent website destined in the first instance for the use of postgraduates (MA and PhD/D.Phil) in Modern Languages (specifically Romance languages). It contains online tutorials about all aspects of postgraduate research, including: applying for grants; writing up; |
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- Just one of several excellent postings recently from BrandAutopsy focuses on what Paul Williams refers to as the Three Fallacies. They are Complacency, Conservatism, and Conceit. Read the post and then consider how they might apply to your firm or organization. Your feeling of discomfort will be proportional to your need to take action. By the way, Paul laments his inability to make it through Tom Peters' Re-Imagine! |
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- An attractively illustrated introduction to the coins and measures of Judaea from early times until the crusader period with historical background and a useful basic bibliography. Before the adoption of Greek and, later, Persian coins (or 'darics') in the 7th-4th centuries BC, a sophisticated system of inscribed weights, based on the unit of the Shekel, was used in Jewish areas. The first Judaean issues proper were not struck until the 4th century BC under Persian and Seleucid licence and were based on the widely used Athenian owls or Persian modes. The Seleucid Antiochus VII also struck hybrid Syrian-Jewish issues in the later 2nd century. The first properly 'Jewish' coins, with Hebrew inscriptions and lacking the portrait heads of earlier issues for religious reasons, did not appear until the time of Simon Macabbeus (143-135), John Hyrcanus (135-104 BC) and their successors when Judaea became fully independent. |
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- be patient - after the image loads, mouse over it and let *that* load. Massive. |
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- Last Saturday, while contemplating this and that (but avoiding the other), I thought to myself how nice it would be to win the lottery. It wouldn't even have to be an obscene amount of money, I mumbled out to the... |
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xVRML (Apr 29 2004 02:57 GMT) - build 0.21.01 beta released |
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Style Yo (Apr 29 2004 02:57 GMT) - As you can probably tell if you've visited this site more the once, I have once again changed the style. My last attempt became a mess after awhile, and it was getting to be hard to manage, so its time... |
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- McAuliffe: "I would like to extend my sincere thanks to former Vice President Al Gore for his generous contribution to the Democratic Party today. Al Gore knows firsthand the type of negative and misleading campaigns run by George W. Bush and his team, and the Vice President is dedicated to helping us defeat them." |
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- This month's Milwaukee weblogger Meetup fell through. Next month's is scheduled for 05.19 at a place still to be determined.... |
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- There's an e-mail circulating with a piece written by a National Guardsman stationed in Iraq, with a "list of things that has happened in Iraq recently." The list contains things like "Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq," "over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever," The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in August," and so on. "We are doing a good job in Iraq," the missive says, "and I challenge anyone, anywhere to dispute me on these facts."Probably a number of people have challenged those "facts," but the one I read -- thanks to a link provided in the Snopes. |
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- After watching TechTV last week, with Wil Wheaton doing a few guest spots, I've started reading his blog, and he... |
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- PITTSBURGH (AP) - Raul Mondesi hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning and Josh Fogg shook off three consecutive terrible starts to lead Pittsburgh. |
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- With MT 3.0 coming soon, I figure I should take the time to go through each and every one of... |
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- With MT 3.0 coming soon, I figure I should take the time to go through each and every one of... |
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