Mirabilis @mirabilis@octodon.social
@staticsafe So you've noticed these, too? For years I have wondered if I am the sole user of their RSS feeds, and the only one who has noticed.
But what is up with the Environment Canada RSS weather feed? It will be silent for ages, and then there will be a couple of posts that tell me that there are no warnings in effect. So, if no warnings, why post? Very peculiar.
@SlowRain Not really - I find web content all over the place, and am not much of a YouTube watcher.
You can see some of the medieval things that have caught my interest in the blog archives here:
http://mirabilis.ca/?s=medieval
although that is an archive of stuff, not content about recent finds or anything.
“Just by watching you open your email, [a curious person or] spammers can learn your schedule (‘based on the time you check your email’), your itinerary (based on how you check mail at home, on the bus, or so on), and personal preferences (based on where they harvested the email; say, a sports forum, or a music fansite).”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-email-open-tracking-quietly-took-over-the-web/
Lost Roman roads could be found as Environment Agency laser scans whole of England from air
@reedsandstrings Me too! I hope to stop in and see it all once it's complete.
Westminster Abbey's attics yield a treasure trove of stained glass
#England #WestminsterAbbey #stainedglass #archeology #history
"Spider kids grow out of their clothes, too."
https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.ca/2017/11/a-size-too-small.html
@rowan Thanks!
@rowan That link takes me to a 404. 😞
How 17th century unmarried women helped shape capitalism.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-17th-century-unmarried-women-helped-shape-capitalism/
@SlowRain Yeah, Iceland keeps turning up in the 'They Do Cool Stuff' category.
How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/01/teens-drugs-iceland/513668/
Archaeologists discover a crude ancient weapon that could kill a man with a single blow
http://bgr.com/2017/12/13/thames-beater-archaeologists-weapon-could-kill-with-one-blow/
#weapon #history #archaeology #ThamesBeater #Thames #England
@emily Thanks for mentioning this! Am trying out Libby as a result of your comment.
Secrets Hidden in Ancient Manuscripts
"A project to scan documents found in the walls of a remote monastery is reshaping our view of the connections between East and West"
#archaeology #monastery #history #StCatherinesMonastery #palimpsest #SinaiPalimpsestsProject
@clhendricksbc Your excitement about this makes me smile a great big smile. I'm happy for you.
Edible archaeology: gingerbread cuneiform tablets.
http://tavolamediterranea.com/2017/12/09/edible-archaeology-gingerbread-cuneiform-tablets/
@stoof Wordpress? You can enable comments or not, as you wish.
