Eldrimner Viking era food blog by an archeology PhD student specialising in the subject. So far appears to cover beer, food smoking and various grinding amongst other things. And one of the entires has links to other people doing the same sort of thing.

Apparently he is basically doing a summer of experimental archeology cooking at Lofotr Viking ( Read more... )

With the main hard drive death, about 4-5 months of bookmarks have been lost ( Read more... )

Yay to links off links off links:)

Bloggers doing very cool medieval stuff:

LJ user maxlu179 eg hend sewn tent and 13th C pouch

LJ user mikkelf84 doing some very cool leather working eg needle case, dice cups and a pouch. He has since moved to another blog shared with several of the others that I'll link to here with some cool stuff such as ( Read more... )

2009 being the International Year of Astronomy (here for the NZ based version), there are a bunch of things going on.

100 hours of astronomy

Cosmic Diary for blogs of 65 astronomers from all around the world including NZ astronomer John Hearnshaw. I like his post on Mt John Observatory - about a week a month for 2 1/2 years was plenty of time up ( Read more... )