In-game trade systems should be risk-based.

Have you ever wondered what a Cambodian retread of Carmina Burana might sound like? No? (I should really start an "advertising" tag.)

City officials were never happy with the public danger the monster trade represented, but of course, mail order businesses presented a question a jurisdiction.

Arnaud Larher's ( Read more... )

In search of the original pizza.

( go click that top link first )

I posted this over at my architectural history place and I figured you guys might want to know, too.

I hate to just repost entries from The History Blog here, but this one's going in my archives too: Ancient citadel in Herat, Afghanistan, restored. The photos alone are worth the visit.

I'm ambivalent about these projects: part of me loves them and ( Read more... )

A pair of superimposed maps* of the US and UK over at swordnboard has me thinking questions about nationalism and imagination. To whit:

do you consider English/British history to be your history? As opposed to the history of a foreign land (let's imagine, say, Turkey or Hungary or Morocco, without going too far afield). Is Britain part of your ( Read more... )

Once upon a time I thought about doing a master's in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography. Now that I've orbited around anthropology courses for a while I'm glad beyond words that I didn't. But somewhere in the middle, when I was, well, between British Racing and Grey-asparagus in judgment, I read The Nuer and found myself rather unfairly dismissive of ( Read more... )

1. So there I was looking for more stuff on Thai nationalism and Tom-Yum-Goong, and I come across this zawesome multicolored crushed diamond of consciousness-raising alt-archaeology, replete with invaders to our Motherland and mind boggling struggles and devious and fast and fierce and ferocious and freidnly.

It was Lawrence who first made me think ( Read more... )

So I'm watching Ong-Bak and I'm trying to keep track of all the ways in which it's a critique of Thai modernity.

( Spoileriffic )

RT samuelpepys: Sir Thomas Clifford is much set by at Court for his activity in going to sea, and stoutness everywhere, and stirring up and down.

Good for Sir Thomas Clifford, who in this tortured sentence embodies the archetype of the heroic mariner, personified previously in the figures of Raleigh, Drake, Lancaster and Middleton, and later in ( Read more... )