Archive for 8th of October, 2007
Olymp*c Shames, or how to make a bad thing worse
Oct 8th
My logo suggestion for the games I cannot legally name.
From the Guardian comes news that could seriously impact classical studies in the year after AD 2011. The committee which cannot legally be named, has copyrighted a word which rhymes with Molympic and the number you get if you subtract 6,519 from 8,531. If you plan to meet someone in the England’s capital city just before a quarter-past-eight in the evening then by law you will have to be vague.
I’m not quite sure how this is going to work. For instance what happens to anyone who wants to count legally. Will this mean that the count will now run 2010, 2011, umph, 2013 or will 2013 now be an even number? Equally uncertain what happens if the offending number occurs in a string of other numbers. It is possible that it will now only be legal to list pi to 7,202 decimal places. (more…)
Whose tomb would you like to find?
Oct 8th
The Tomb of Minos at Eraclea Minoa?
Archaeology Magazine are running an interesting poll at the moment:
The tombs of so many of history’s great leaders are lost. Which other ruler would you most like to see discovered?
That’s an easy one to answer I know which unseen tomb I’d like to find. It’s more difficult if you specify that the leader should already be dead, but I think I have an answer for that too. (more…)
