An online skirmish over article attribution on Medievalists.net is examined here. It’s an argument over the protocol, courtesy and ethics of blogging, rather than a row about history, but it’s worth reading, if only to see an academic use the word ‘ridonkulousness’ (second par).
Source: (as seems only fair): Inside Higher Ed
Here’s fun. Why not pimp the Bayeux Tapestry? Proper nerd fun. You can reinvent history by dragging and dropping soldiers, kings, beast, buildings and boats into the most unlikely combinations, adding text to move your story along etc etc. I made a loose six-frame mashup riffing on William the Bastard’s invasion of England in 1066, Lemuel Gulliver’s visit to the Houyhnhnms, and this morning’s breakfast. It was quite fun. I can’t get the Gallery to work at the moment or I’d post a screengrab. But go, see this masterpiece of the Internet age for yourself…
Hat-tip: Geeks are Sexy
Dan Jones was born in 1981 and graduated from Cambridge with a First in History in 2002.
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