Archive for August, 2008

History on the Web

August 28, 2008

Now this is digital history I can get behind — “Scientists using American space technology have started a huge project to digitally photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known version of the Hebrew Bible, and post it on the Internet for all to see, Israeli authorities said Wednesday.”

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1467453 

Talk about making things available that most folks wouldn’t be able to see, let alone explore in detail . . .

Apologies to everyone who saw this in the Express this morning — I figured not EVERYONE reads the McPaper.

-Tracy

Tottering into cyberspace

August 26, 2008