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Sometimes I wish medieval writers had used Twitter.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Translation of below: We stole the idea of stealing Saint Nicholas from the Venetians. They suck. We rock.
When Alexius was Emperor, and the foreign and infidel hordes that had migrated through the Roman Empire were being pacified’ and the bold Normans who had voyaged thither had been beaten and dispersed, certain citizens of the city [...]

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Quick Note About Devices That Do Everything

Saturday, March 21, 2009

You have to be pretty darned disciplined to not do everything.
My iPhone is a camera, a phone, an iPod, a movie player, an RSS reader, an ebook reader, gaming platform, and blogging device. The problem mostly being that it’s hard to not want to do all of these things at once. Listen to a song, [...]

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Gradeshnitsa tablets

Sunday, January 25, 2009

This is one of those weird things I like: nationalism and it’s influence on historical imagination. Specifically how in the Balkans it’s impossible to talk about linguistics without talking about nationalism. Romanians claim their language has an ancient substrate from Dacian, Greeks get all pissy about the Macedonians calling themselves Macedonians, and the Macedonians get [...]

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