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In Living Color

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Although we’re used to seeing it in its history-stained, marbled whiteness, we’ve known for some time that ancient Greek architecture such as the Parthenon was painted in bright, some might say garish colors. Here’s more on color in classical art from the Harvard Gazette: “Scholars give us antiquity–the colorized version”. And if you happen [...]

Hide & Ciste

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Here’s an article I ran across some time ago about a “treasure” hunting game some travelers are beginning to enjoy: “Hide and Ciste”. It reminded me of geo-caching, which is mentioned near the end of the article. It’d be nice to have the time and material resources to participate in these types of challenges. And [...]

Groovy New Seven Wonders Interactive

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Here’s a groovy interactive from Newsweek on the recently announced “New” Seven Wonders of the world as chosen by the citizens of the world.

New Wonders

Monday, July 16th, 2007

For something that’s officially unofficial, the announcement of the New Seven Wonders of the world drew a lot of press over the last few weeks. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the appropriate body who might oversee a process such as this one, has denied its participation. The idea is more more [...]

Rome Reborn

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

An article in Newsweek yesterday detailed a very groovy project at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, a digital model of Rome as it might have existed in the fourth century AD, Rome Reborn 1.0.
Here’re Des, Melissa, Danielle, Kyle, Carmen, and Michael from 2005 inside the Colosseum in the middle [...]

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