Roger Stritmatter | February 19, 2012
An article in the November 2011 de Vere Society newsletter by Elizabeth Imlay hypothesizes that marginal annotations and drawings contained in copies of Tacitus’ History of Rome and Blondus History of Europe from Sir Thomas Smith’s library, now in the Queen’s College Library in Cambridge, are by the young Edward de Vere.
Roger Stritmatter | February 14, 2012
Ok, I admit it. I have a new online hobby. I like to follow websites featuring news about something called either CF (Cold Fusion), LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction), or LANR (Lattice Assisted Nuclear Reaction). At least those are the three most common names for this new and (to most of us anyway) highly surprising [...]
Roger Stritmatter | February 1, 2012
Well, its been a few weeks since I’ve done a post, and I can only plead in my own defense for such lack of productivity that I have in fact been very productive indeed, just not on Facebook or on this blog (Hey, we old fuddy-duddy scholars have to do real work sometimes…..with such [...]
Roger Stritmatter | November 16, 2011
I’ve noticed something striking about the critical response to Anonymous. According to data available on Moviephone, which not only collates reviews by professionals but also supplies a forum for ordinary moviegoers to post their own evaluations, there’s a huge perception gap about how good or how bad a movie it is (if I were Sony, I’d [...]
Roger Stritmatter | November 5, 2011
One of the truly great things about Wikipedia – a feature that redeems many of the perhaps unavoidable limitations of the project – is that it stores every revision of all its pages, including both entries and talk pages. There’s a paper trail – always (well, almost always….), a continuous sequence of the revision process, [...]
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