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Archive | November, 2005
Past Thinking RSS Feed
First the renaming of my blog, and now the moving of my RSS URL. Whatever next?! Well, my feed now includes my latest photos on Flickr and my del.icio.us links as a daily digest. My RSS feed is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/PastThinking, courtesy of FeedBurner. Please update your newsreader!
Archaeologists find western world's oldest map
The Daily Telegraph report that archaeologists in southern Italy have revealed a fragment of teracotta onto which is engraved a map of Apulia, the region at the heel of Italy’s “boot”. Known as the Soleto Map, it is the earliest known map of anywhere in the western world, dating to about 500BC. What is particularly [...]
Past Thinking
Up until now, this weblog has been called simply “goskar.com”. The main reason for this was that I couldn’t think of a good name for it, and I didn’t think that it really mattered. Since I’m now getting a reasonable amount of traffic (about 3000 sessions per month), I thought that it deserves a more [...]
Coloured Bubbles and Disappearing Dyes
[Update] Matt has pointed out that these are called Zubbles, and on the website you can see photos of them. Thanks, Matt! Clear bubbles will soon be a thing of the past – retro, even. An idea by Tim Kehoe, and perfected by dye chemist Ram Sabnis has become a reality. Read the full story [...]
Victoria and Albert Museum offer podcast
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK, have begun to produce one of the first (if not the first?) museum podcasts as part of their “Every Object Tells a Story” project. In this first edition, you can hear curators, conservators and researchers share their stories about art in the Paintings Gallery and see images [...]
Medieval Food and Feasting, and the emperor Charlemagne
Tehmina has now written two books, aimed at young adults (but very readable by any age really!). Her first is entitled “Medieval Feasts and Banquets: Food, Drink, and Celebration in the Middle Ages” which gives a great introduction to the subject, and blows away quite a few myths (bones being chucked over shoulders onto sawdust [...]
Surveying Knowlton Church and Henge using 3D Laser Scanning
By A. Carty (Archaeoptics Ltd) and Thomas A. Goskar (Wessex Archaeology) [UPDATE] If you would like a PDF of this article, hop on over to Archaeoptics to download a copy. Abstract The use of terrestrial 3D laser scanning devices is increasing in all surveying areas including topographic surveys and building recording. However, a dichotomy exists [...]
Thud! Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld adventure
I have just finished reading Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel “Thud!”. I have been reading the Pratchett for about 17 years now, and whilst I’m a big fan, some of the more recent offerings, such as “Monstrous Regiment” have been a little lacklustre (why did it have such a predictable ending?!). “Going Postal” was much [...]
Apple Mac Wikis
A number of Apple Mac wikis appear to be cropping up. The first one that I came across is Wikitosh which hopes to be a repository for everything you ever wanted to know about the Apple Mac platform, from todays Macs and OSX, back to information about machines from days gone by (computer archaeology?!). Wikitosh [...]
