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Ron Hutton takes on Don Frew
Just a quick link here. Partially for my own later reference (as I don't have time to read the entire article at work), and partially because I know a handful of folks on my friends list will appreciate it.
Paganism and Polemic: The Debate over the Origins of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, by Ronald Hutton, in which the author responds directly to a ( Read more... ) -
A confession, radio debate, and polytheism
I have a confession. I was a little late to work this morning. Only fifteen minutes or so, and my job doesn't really require me to interact with people, so it's not a big deal.
In fact, some days I really actually sort of like being late. Not so much for what makes me late -- this morning I was preparing the Dreaming Dionysia script for posting ( Read more... ) -
Blogging, holes therein, and a resolution
Yes, I'm alive. It's been a very busy month or two. And it's been good-busy. But no, I won't be telling you all about it ( Read more... ) -
bookporn
In digging up a reference a moment ago to a Loeb Classical Library tome (published, of course, by Harvard University Press), I stumbled across a link to the Center for Hellenic Studies, whose paper publications are apparently are distributed by Harvard UP.
If that weren't enough droolage, HUP also apparently provides RSS feeds of new books for the ( Read more... ) -
Today's Music Menu: Experimental
- Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
- David Bowie - Low
- Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
- Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
- Esquivel - Music from a Sparkling Planet
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Music Menu
More music today from radiantbaby. Yum!
- Nina Simone - The Blues
- Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
- The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
- David Sylvian - Gone to Earth
- Love & Rockets - Express
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Music Menu
Today I asked radiantbaby to pick me some music. Here's the Music Menu she picked for me today:- Doves - Lost Souls
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon
- Jason Falkner - Necessity: The 4-Track Years
- Mr. David Viner - (self-titled)
- Embrace - The Good Will Out
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Work annoyance, and classic punk
Work is being stressful this week. Fortunately, a little classic 70s British punk makes everything better. -
Yahoo! Groups and their broke-ass character sets
I am extremely frustrated with Yahoo! Groups today. Their support of character sets other than iso-8859-1 (aka latin-1 aka extended ASCII) is bad and wrong. Apparently if someone posts to a list using any other character set (say... utf-8?), it archives the message but completely ignores the character set. Then when someone requests the message in ( Read more... )