Comments on: One Man’s Rubbish, Another Man’s Canon http://grandtextauto.org/2005/04/17/one-mans-rubbish/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: josh g. http://grandtextauto.org/2005/04/17/one-mans-rubbish/comment-page-1/#comment-47074 josh g. Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:08:34 +0000 /?p=758#comment-47074 Looks like this might be a case of exaggerated un-news: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050420-4827.html (Yes, the source is a PC techie website, but apparently a newswriter there is studying papyrology.) Looks like this might be a case of exaggerated un-news:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050420-4827.html

(Yes, the source is a PC techie website, but apparently a newswriter there is studying papyrology.)

]]> By: mark http://grandtextauto.org/2005/04/17/one-mans-rubbish/comment-page-1/#comment-47073 mark Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:08:06 +0000 /?p=758#comment-47073 This'll be quite interesting! FWIW, Oxyrhynchus wasn't completely useless even before this---there were actually quite a few papyri legible to the naked eye, found during excavations dating back to the 1880s. There's a pretty good overview <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus">at Wikipedia</a>. This’ll be quite interesting! FWIW, Oxyrhynchus wasn’t completely useless even before this—there were actually quite a few papyri legible to the naked eye, found during excavations dating back to the 1880s. There’s a pretty good overview at Wikipedia.

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