Monday 4 October 2010

0 non-work-related items that I found fun or interesting

Please note that, due to the vagaries of wireless and people severing cables causing parts of Hemel Hempstead to be without both telephone and Internet, this trivia post is not the weekend just gone but the one before!

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
History of cities: Londoners have long been willing to live in filth. Orientals wasted time building sanitation systems and bathing, but Brits preferred making money... more

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A bogus history of Afghanistan is not a good foundation for making policy to deal with the country's problems, says Christian Caryl... more

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The subatomic world is the perfect arena for imaginative theory and sheer fantasy. Jeremy Bernstein is a man who knows the difference... more

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As Twilight shows, not all that girls like is good art – or good feminism. But the backlash against Twilight should matter to feminists, even as they shudder... more

via Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate “It is a truth universally acknowledged...” tells us something about Jane Austen’s temper and her times. Her world was one where there really was universal truth... more

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Saddam Hussein drained the wetlands of southern Iraq to punish the Marsh Arabs. Now a courageous U.S. Iraqi wants to restore the marshes... more

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Women in the 20th century moved toward more autonomy, self-confidence, skills, and income, with many individuals caught in the confusion... more

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Only the peer reviewed need apply. Once upon a time, "peer reviewed" meant that research was validly arrived at, not fabricated. Today it often means hewing to the party line... more

Friday Fun: Go Retro with Pacman via the How-To Geek by Mysticgeek
If you are old as I am you remember how exciting it was when Pacman was introduced and the ensuing frenzy that accompanied it. Today for Friday Fun we take a trip down memory lane and relive some some cool Pac-man games.
This Flash version of the original Pacman is a lot of fun and is fairly close to the original.
Play Flash Pacman
MS Pacman was always my favorite and now you can play it without a pocket full of quarters. Play Original Ms. Pacman
Have you ever wanted to be one of the ghosts? Here you can in Anti-Pacman.
Play Anti-Pacman

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Old English was an elegant tongue, yet one that mirrored the brutality of its times. The Dictionary of Old English is tying it all together... more


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