Interesting links and random comments

Seminar XLV: Viking metal for women - review of a seminar on "New Insights on the Viking Settlement of England: the small finds evidence"

And nothing to do with medieval:
Does the Highway Patrol Keep Us Safe? (Freakonomics on a paper looking at how cutting your police doesn't help your road safety rate).

There is progress on blackworking the cuffs on the blackworked chemise and the kittens have not swung on the loom while in use. Trying to resist starting a german brickwork embroidered cushion as I only have DMC cotton and should really finish the cuffs (and if I concentrate, they should only take a month or less).

Otherwise all quiet here. Always hard to motivate in autumn, heading into winter if you don't have any major events coming up...