{"id":7290,"date":"2015-06-19T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2015-06-19T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:28:09","slug":"odds-and-ends-runic-duct-tape-ebola-etsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"Odds and Ends: Runic Duct Tape, Ebola, Etsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Real Heathens fix stuff with runic duct tape. Or “sticky tape,” direct from Orkney to you.<\/a><\/p>\n

To save you checking your Futhark, it says “Orkney Orkney Orkney.” I have the matching mug.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Was the famous plague of 432 BCE in Athens an early outbreak of Ebola?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Athenian disease began south of Egypt in a region Thucydides called “Aethiopia,” a term that ancient Greeks used to refer to regions in sub-Saharan Africa, where modern Ebola outbreaks<\/a> have occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest at Live Science.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Etsy follows eBay in forbidding the sale of spell kits and the like<\/a>. (What about rosaries?) I heard a brief slow-pitch interview with founder Etsy Rob Kalin this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition. <\/em>(NPR loves Etsy<\/a> \u2014 just do a site search.) Kalin walzed around the issue of Etsy allowing factory-made items \u2014 apparently OK if it is small<\/em> factory \u2014 and the interviewer did not mention magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Real Heathens fix stuff with runic duct tape. Or “sticky tape,” direct from Orkney to you. To save you checking your Futhark, it says “Orkney Orkney Orkney.” I have the matching mug. \u2022 Was the famous plague of 432 BCE in Athens an early outbreak of Ebola? 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