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Comment on Wine helps women stay thin by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:44:12 +0000

Deliver my Merlot to the table, please. Has it had time to breathe?

Comment on Ostrich egg patterns oldest form of art and communication by Jean

Jean — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:56:34 +0000

Thank you, because I really like this one.
It is hard to imagine – 60,000 years ago – but still they found several examples.
There was an interesting article in American Scientist by Kurt D. Bollacker, entitled: “Avoiding a Digital Dark Age”.
The author writes about the fact that “Data longevity depends on both the storage medium and the ability to decipher the information”.
He did not know about this find. His oldest reference is 8000 BC.
If you want either of the original articles, let me know.
It will be my pleasure.
Jean

Comment on Ostrich egg patterns oldest form of art and communication by Michael Tinkler

Michael Tinkler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:40:54 +0000

Oooh – a new object to start Art 101 with, since the first day starts with “What is Art?”

Comment on Surface that refuses to get wet by Christine

Christine — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:56:09 +0000

Exactly, Michael. Exactly!

Comment on Surface that refuses to get wet by Michael Tinkler

Michael Tinkler — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:43:51 +0000

Urg. Should we accept science from such a tainted souce? I mean, spiders!!

Comment on Did Altzheimer’s kill Agatha Christie? by Christine

Christine — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:46:14 +0000

I just checked it, Sarah – works fine for me.

Comment on Did Altzheimer’s kill Agatha Christie? by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:30:11 +0000

Unable to access the article. Link broken?

Comment on What could you live without? by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:22:25 +0000

There’s a topic I’ve thought about a lot. If it weren’t for my husband, who has a problem with accumulating stuff (and it borders on the pathological), I’d give away most of what I have, sell the house, and live in a smaller place with my dog. Sometimes I fantasize about it, as I gaze upon stuffed closets, crammed cupboards, junk-filled garage and so forth. Stuff untouched since we moved in there 16 years ago, but necessary to my husband’s sense of security, so there it sits. Covered with dust and slowly disintegrating. I often wonder if I’ll live long enough to see my dream become reality. I could easily live on half of what I have now.

Comment on Found: site of Battle of Bosworth by Michael Tinkler

Michael Tinkler — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:26:54 +0000

And they did it with a livery badge – the high-class version of the pilgrimage badges that obsess me so.

Comment on Found: site of Battle of Bosworth by John A

John A — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:35:35 +0000

“… where no historian had looked before”

Hmm. A fen is a sort of marsh, Fen Lane – running by Fen Hole, an actual marsh – was part of the route used by both armies to approach each other, a nearby rise became renamed “Crown Hill” shortly after the event. But for centuries a pre-comceived notion of the battle location kept anyone from looking? All too likely, yet still surprising.

Comment on Social media consultants by Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:11:27 +0000

> After eight years of responding politely to these selfish morons (“please take me off this list; please don’t send me any more of this…”) I finally snapped at one of them last month.

Why did you wait so long? You should have been abusing them since early 2002! They are truly the vermin of the net.

Comment on Chocolate helps prevent strokes by Michael Tinkler

Michael Tinkler — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:36:28 +0000

don’t leave the menfolk out of this one!

Comment on Chocolate helps prevent strokes by Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:52:45 +0000

How to (not) die happy–manage a daily intake of chocolate. I can do that. Sisters in chocolate around the world. Let’s start a new underground.

Comment on Social media consultants by Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:55:53 +0000

Color me clueless–I just thought they were some more sophisticated type of spam. Oh, wait, they are.

I’ve never commented before–I just read and enjoy–but in case you give up on comments, I wanted to thank you for your wonderful blog.

Comment on Founders of British obstetrics were callous murderers by John A

John A — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:08:40 +0000

Ugly.

But I am somewhat willing to believe they did not actually contract murders, rather allowed class prejudices to blind them to an abundant suppy’s likely source.