March 30, 2011
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Seriously kewl, and with obvious potential classroom use: Official Google Blog: When in Rome: New Street View imagery of historic sites in Italy and France.
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Whom the gods would destroy, they inflict with Katy Perry, I think. First of all (as I was complaining on Facebook the other day), I can no longer watch the local news because it has an ad for a radio station which implants an earworm of Katy Perry’s ‘California Girls’ (or whatever) every time I…
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One of my ongoing irritants is when an otherwise-respectable news source — such as the BBC — gives its journalistic imprimatur to ‘news’ which is clearly questionable without even thinking too hard or (worse) as a precursor to a documentary which will be appearing later on some television station, such as, well, the BBC. A…
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ante diem iii kalendas apriles 317 B.C. — death of Phocion (?) 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Quirinus at Rome