A Commonplace Book

What quality metal was used on medieval arrowheads? Which types were used to pierce armor? This article from the Royal Armouries looks at t...

ORB has quietly revised the religion data in their survey of Iraq released earlier in September, but there are still strange things about th...

Philip K. Dick probably has had more of his works made into movies than any other SF author, but very few of the movies are much good, and m...

A paper by Andrew Enterline and J. Michael Greig looks at the history of imposed democracies and the implications for Iraq and Afghanistan. ...

ORB, a British polling group, has recently released a poll they took in Iraq in August that suggest that there have been more than a million...

ORB, a British polling group, has just released the results of a poll it took in Iraq in August that suggests that over a million Iraqis hav...

An amazing display of what a splendidly trained horse and skilled rider can do, regardless of what your opinion might be of the morality of...

Building a rattan sword that can be used safely in simulated combat, but that closely follows an actual medieval sword in weight, balance, h...

I recently bought the director’s cut of Blade Runner. I’m happy with the removal of the original stupid happy ending. The original voice-ove...

When I returned from vacation, my sitemeter tracker told me that this blog has had over 10,000 visits since I installed it. That doesn't...