Interesting Links for 3-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• The joy of making model aircraft
  (tags: toys funny)
• UN defends human right to WikiLeaked info.
  (tags: wikileaks un)
• What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011 if 1977 copyright laws were still in effect.
  (tags: copyright law culture publicdomain publishing)
• The New Year's resolutions of various tech companies. I love Apple's.
  (tags: technology funny)
• New clues uncover how 'starvation hormone' connects insulin, fat levels and cancer.
  (tags: hormones health fat insulin diabetes)
• Why Star Wars is not Entertainment (although it sure as hell entertained me).
  (tags: scifi sf starwars movies)
• Women working in technology discuss whether they would recommend the profession to other women.
  (tags: career feminism work computers technology)
• The Female Character Flowchart
  (tags: feminism)
• Bill Sienkiewicz speaks about Big Numbers #3
  (tags: BillSienkiewicz alanmoore comics)
• Good Lord, government ministers want stable house prices. Altogether too sensble.
  (tags: housing uk government)
• Microsoft not allowing NES emulator on WP7 phones - this kind of thing is why I won't be getting one.
  (tags: mobile_phones microsoft censorship)
• Calories, fat or carbohydrates? The problems with current diet studies
  (tags: science health food diet nutrition research)
• Jesus not actually related to Mithras (or Horus, or Dionysus).
  (tags: religion christianity jesus)

Comments

[makyo.livejournal.com]

Pontius Pilate, who we know from contemporary documents was recalled by the Senate to explain the harshness of his actions in Palestine
Anthony Blond's rather entertaining book A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors says: "Pontius Pilate, who we now know to have been a prefect, not just a procurator, was constantly being complained about. Philo quotes Agrippa as calling him 'inflexible, heartless and obstinate'. Pilate was never prosecuted, but was recalled to Rome in AD 36 for what amounted to lack of tact on a monstrous scale."

Given the generally brutal mores of the time, one does have to ask how bad Pilate must have been in order for the Roman authorities (Tiberius would have been emperor at this point, succeeded by Caligula a year later) to have considered him relatively beyond the pale.