Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

A drawing of a Muppet-y Cloud Strife riding on a Big-Bird-like chocobo.

From this day in 2021: My nephews were curious about Final Fantasy after seeing a Moogle I drew and I described Chocobos as looking "kind of like Big Bird" so then I had to draw it.

editor: you need to rewrite

me: why

editor: because we need plausible characters

me: whats the problem

editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

The question is not so much will he commit genocidal war crimes, but who or what will stop him if/when he does so.

With Judgment Day, the CCA told Gaines and Al Feldstein, the writer of the story, that they could not publish the comic book if the final panel had a black astronaut. For Murphy, the final panel was too controversial for 1950s America, a time when segregation and systemic racism were still accepted parts of society. This story was likely perceived as too critical of contemporary society. This outraged EC and Gaines threatened to sue the Authority. Murphy then chose to compromise and said that EC could publish the comic if it removed the astronauts beads of sweat. Gaines and Feldstein responded with “Fuck you!,” hanging up the phone (Von Bernewitz, Fred and Grant Geissman, 88).

In the 1950s this panel was controversial enough to drive it's publisher out of business

Photo of a cuneiform tablet shown from the front, back, and various side angles. At the bottom is a watermark for the Yale Babylonian Collection, and to the left of that watermark is a 1cm scale. Based on the scale, the tablet is about 4-5cm wide and 3-4cm tall. In the bottom left corner of the image is a tiny winged creature thumbnail, and along the left side are the letters and numbers "GCBC 766 (YPM BC 034383)"

Today, I've been reading a very old medical commentary from ancient Uruk, written in the Akkadian language.

It's a tiny cuneiform tablet that explains words and phrases excerpted from another text - a diagnostic manual, known in antiquity as Sa-gig.

Limit braking to weekends.

Tips For Saving On Gas https://theonion.com/tips-for-saving-on-gas/

Also I feel like “[[[CHARACTER INFORMS PC OF DIRECTION TO PALACE. SINISTER VIBES??]]” Slipping into a game by accident feels less embarrassing than “The palace is in the palace district! But I wouldn’t go there if I was you… Let me know if you want any further refinements!”

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Rachel Corrie - Wikipedia

As a reminder, 23 years ago Israel proved already that they will murder anyone opposing their ability to freely murder, rape, and maim Palestinians. They literally crushed Rachel Corrie (USA) with a bulldozer, and then IDF members made pancakes to mock her death.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_...

Q: What is Sinners about? A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things.

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Dicey Dungeons

You can play a bunch of video games in Irish
aftermath.site/games-from-ire...

Games from Ireland 2026 Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with games made in Ireland and by Irish teams around the world

Hey folks, there's a Games from Ireland event on Steam right now, which is the very first showcase of Irish games on Steam, and features a variety of neat titles made wholly or partly in Ireland! Just in time for St. Patrick's Day! Everyone go check this out:

store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesfr...

Typical losing Magic player crying "judge!"

"In order for nonviolence to work your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none"

Time to drop the Stokely:

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe

Black and white photo of a longhaired black tuxedo cat, sitting up and looking at the camera, wearing a collar and leash.

An elegant vintage tuxedo. Photo from my collection, 1970.

I don't care what anyone says, for my money, Highwayman is the best country song about reincarnation and spaceships.

I am giving a talk tonight for the OGDA on Publishing Agreements, and they have been kind enough to allow the link to watch to be open to the public! This will be starting at 9:45 PM ET and the link below allows you to join as a viewer on Riverside!
riverside.com/webinar/regi...

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

unbelievable. they weaved me into the tapestry of fate right next to fucking gary

Nothing revs up the sex drive more than the death drive.

New fire-type starter Pokémon Pombon from Wind and Waves with a blank, sociopathic stare into the void

...He’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’... they all come in and rip ya to pieces."

The morning calm before the readers arrive. 📚

Duke Humfrey's Library, 8.30am

Damn they really Disney-fied the hell out of Predator with Badlands, huh? Like straight down to the wise-cracking sidekick and animal companion. Felt like watching the plot of an RPG. I do appreciate the texture of the world and invented language.