a convenient truth

I know [Paul](http://thelifestill.blogspot.com/index.html) will like this one.

This is a real translation of the Iliad, by the classics professor at Kansas State University.

Fantastic details for [Star Charts](http://www.parenthacks.com/2007/03/how_to_use_a_st.html) as a reward for kids. The comments are really good too.

Once again the press show themselves to be as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Even though I didn’t get a paper today (I was down in London so missed my usual Guardian), everywhere I looked was the story that KEITH RICHARDS SNORTED HIS DAD. It was so obviously (a) bollocks and (b) insane that I was amazed they carried it.

And lo, [he didn't snort his dad](http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1556258/20070403/rolling_stones.jhtml). Wow, really? Who would have thought it.

[What a fantastic idea](http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2048116,00.html). Ikea making whole *houses*.

A nice take on the [remarkable number of CCTV cameras in London](http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell%2C+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do).

The terrifying thing about this is not what the current government might do with it (they are too incompetent to do anything much), but what a future more competent government might do.