links for 2010-11-24
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Genetic testing of villagers in a remote part of China has shown that nearly two thirds of their DNA is of Caucasian origin, lending support to the theory that they may be descended from a 'lost legion' of Roman soldiers.
Due to poor take up the competition to win the original cover art from Sounds of Soldiers has been cancelled. I shall be using the artwork to generate publicity in other ways, if I can, but this one just wasn’t working.
You can buy Sounds of Soldiers as a paperback or pdf download from Lulu.com or for Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader from Amazon UK or Amazon US.
I could forgive all those people who drape pointless lights over their houses at this time of year if they had the imagination to choreograph the display like this.
via BoingBoing
For some reason, this was stuck in my head all of yesterday.
It’s annoying that there isn’t a better video of the opening credits on YouTube.
One day, I’d like to have a load of M*A*S*H on DVD.