Author Archives: scaife

The Scout Report today notes that Firefox is now out of beta, below, but they miss what I like the most about it: the ability to set up RSS feeds as live bookmarks right in your toolbar. Great feature for … Continue reading →

Sounds like a new blockbuster movie, but it’s a report from the BOAI-forum newsletter: On November 4th-5th 2004 a very successful Open Access event was held in Italy: thirty-two institutions (31 Italian Universities and 1 research centre) gathered in Messina, … Continue reading →

The ever-resourceful Tom Elliott of the AWMC has put together his own new aggregator of various blogs that focus on Classsics and Classical Archaeology, called Web Watch. Explains Tom: (1) It only sucks a feed when I tell it to, … Continue reading →

Professor Elise Garrison has added an essay on male suicides to her study of ancient suicides in Diotima. Now her set of materials includes: Suicide in Classical Mythology: An Essay Part I: Suicidal Females Part II: Suicidal Males Suicidal Females … Continue reading →

from dealmac.com: The December issue of Consumer Reports magazine features Apple’s new iMac G5 on the front cover along with the caption, “Unspectacular results for Intel’s new processor. Plus 59,940 reasons to reconsider Macs. “Inside the issue, Consumer Reports writes, … Continue reading →

From David Perry: A major update to Cardo, a Unicode font designed for scholars, is now available at scholarsfonts.net. Version .98 adds over 1400 new characters, including all the Greek characters proposed for Unicode by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, variants … Continue reading →

from Sebastian Rahtz: The customization of Knoppix made for the recent TEI members meeting can now be downloaded from https://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/downloads/ This is an ISO CD image, which most burning software will understand. You need a 700 mbyte blank CD. Usage: … Continue reading →

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1973-74, and now it’s freely available on-line at The Electronic Text Center at the … Continue reading →

Anne Mahoney has an interesting new review up of Reviel Netz, The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World: From Problems to Equations (CUP 2004). …within the tool-kit of available techniques, classical Greek mathematicians, in general, make a point … Continue reading →

As an element of a grant proposal in the works, I just totted up current Stoa Consortium resources available here at UK: Over in the Center for Computational Sciences in McVey Hall, we maintain two production servers and two development … Continue reading →

When Bernie Frischer gave his (terrific) talk on Rome Reborn at Cincy half a year ago I asked him about being able to walk through the Roman forum and get a VR view of their reconstruction keyed to one’s location … Continue reading →

From the CHE’s weblog, reporting on Educause 2004: Former U. of Michigan President Warns of ‘Great Change’ in Higher Education OCTOBER 20, NOON — Educause 2004 has attracted more than 7,000 people from 43 different countries, scores of colleges, and … Continue reading →

Here’s part of an interesting update on Corinth from the blog of Michael Shanks: What we are actually doing at Corinth is trying to turn a curve by implementing methodologies now standard in non-classical lands. We have been introducing an … Continue reading →

Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion hosts materials to accompany Penelope M. Allison, Pompeian Households: An Analysis of the Material Culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Monograph 42). It includes detailed documentary information on 30 Pompeian houses and their contents, consisting of … Continue reading →

Herbert Van de Sompel, Sandy Payette, John Erickson, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner, Rethinking Scholarly Communication: Building the System that Scholars Deserve, D-Lib Magazine, September 2004. Excerpt: There is growing dissatisfaction with the established scholarly communication system. This dissatisfaction is … Continue reading →