Author Archives: scaife

The Geography of Artemidoros

Posted on 2006-04-24 by scaife

Dorothy King has a blog entry on the rediscovery of this Geography on papyrus, otherwise known from quotations in Strabo. Related podcasts:  New Technology Unlocks Ancient Texts, and The Greatest Hits of Ancient Garbage.

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Rome Total War

Posted on 2006-04-21 by scaife

Patrick Porter of Oxblog likes it: Desperate to invade Egypt, my faction of the Brutii kept getting its navy sunk. I couldn’t transport my battle-hungry legions from Crete to North Africa. So I had to build a bigger navy. Which … Continue reading →

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Gospel of Judas Megapost

Posted on 2006-04-20 by scaife

Mark Goodacre has a Gospel of Judas megapost that ought to offer enough for even the most avid followers of this topic.

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Pre-1975 European scholarship = fair game?

Posted on 2006-04-17 by scaife

The 1993 EU Copyright law is here. Article 5 appears to be crucial: Critical and scientific publications Member States may protect critical and scientific publications of works which have come into the public domain. The maximum term of protection of … Continue reading →

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The Wealth of Networks

Posted on 2006-04-15 by scaife

Lawrence Lessig: You are not serious about these issues — on either side of these debates — unless you have read this book.

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-14 by scaife

from the BOAI list: John Willinsky’s (2005) excellent book on Open Access is now available Open Access: Willinsky, J. (2005) The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship MIT Press

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Ancient history podcasts

Posted on 2006-04-09 by scaife

Numerous topics from the ancient world at Military History Podcasts: Alexander the Great, Roman tactics, Pharsalus, Roman defeats, conquests of Cyrus the Great, Persian Wars, Sargon, Hannibal, Valor… Also: Lars Brownworth’s 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire.

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What they listen to in hell on their ipods

Posted on 2006-04-07 by scaife

Tax Code Podcast ????

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Etymologies on iPod (CHE)

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

A company called iPREPpress that has already created a line of iPod-ready crib notes for great literary works now hopes to turn students’ MP3 players into veritable reference shelves. The company has joined forces with Merriam-Webster Inc. to release a … Continue reading →

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JIIA Eprints Repository

Posted on 2006-04-05 by scaife

Antonella D’Ascoli informa  dell’attivazione del JIIA Eprints Repository http://eprints.jiia.it/, Repository collegato al ‘Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology’ http://www.jiia.it, in data 2006-04-04 registrato presso le Autorità competenti, quindi presente nei seguenti elenchi: http://www.eprints.org/software/archives/ http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/ Il precedente MyOPIA JIIA Repository (a seguito di … Continue reading →

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They’re getting…

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

… desperate! Ray Cha concludes: In the end, I agree with Ben’s previous post that the Nature article in question has a marginal relevance to the bigger picture. The main point is that Wikipedia works amazingly well and contains articles … Continue reading →

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The Access Principle

Posted on 2006-04-04 by scaife

Thanks to Peter Suber for pointing to Kate Corby’s review of Willinsky, John. (2006). The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. It is unfortunate that many academics feel that assuring … Continue reading →

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Zeus remembers Cronos

Posted on 2006-03-29 by scaife

from “Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes” — “Nobody has tried to swallow us since I’ve been here. I think they are afraid of how we would taste.” — Apple shareholder meeting, April 22, 1998

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Ἐποποῖ !

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Rob Dyer’s copiously annotated translation of a remarkable Suda entry (epsilon 2807: epopoi) has now received editorial support from SOL Senior Editor David Whitehead. From the start of the notes: This delightful collection of shouts and ‘mimic words’ (bird cries … Continue reading →

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Getting Data into Google Earth using Arc2Earth

Posted on 2006-03-26 by scaife

Brian Flood has a post on the apparently straightforward task of presenting GIS data through Google Earth.

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