I’ll have to look for more of these interactive images. Here’s the Pauline Chapel, via the Vatican website. Use your mouse to manipulate viewing angle and zoom.Or follow a John Hopkins Uni archaeological dig at Luxor, Egypt.Happy Weekend!

How old is the oldest tree? Wikimedia gives a quick guide. Maybe 6,000 years if carbon dating of baobabs is correct. Imagine touching a living tree that someone else slept under 6,000 years ago.By Zigomar (Own work)[GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0(www…

Patricia Wrede has some seriously good advice (with clear examples) on putting words together.Over at Romance Bandits, Loucinda McGary discusses banished words. What words have I heard too often? Not sure, but if I could add my whinge as a side issue, …

[Dunescape, with thanks to Ivan Sohrakoff for sharing on Flickr]Hidden under a massive sand dune for millenia. Then the wind shifts. The storms erode the dune and the broken spaceship stands revealed. Inside are aliens, mummified by the desert. Do they…