Your pardon while I break out the pixel-boots for a little rubber-kicking here on the abandoned grounds of my abortive Posterous blog. It's been a while since I've dropped in, but Tumblr, while wonderful for ephemera and short-form stuff, isn't going to hack it (at least for me) for some of the longer form stuff I've got on the way.

I'm not entirely sure Posterous is the right tool for the job either, so I'm going to play with it for a few weeks, testing to see if it fits my needs. Toy, tool, technology...

I'll be over on Tumblr. You know, if you need me or anything. Maybe I'll be back someday, but until then...

Do me a quick favor if you happen to be a National Geographic subscriber and have an iPhone or iPod touch laying around. About a quarter of the way into the August 2010 issue, there's a one-page Archaeology spread on a Babylonian tablet describing a round ark in a flood myth that might be a predecessor for the Hebraic/Biblical version (sorry, can't find any links on NGM's website). 

Intriguing, but that's not what struck me. Instead, it was the picture of said tablet being held in a hand, a tablet that looked sort of like this...

The image had the tablet shown against a hand and was labeled "Actual size." And the dimensions of this "Actual size" seemed uncannily familiar. So I laid my wife's iPod touch on top of the image and...hey presto! Almost an exact match. 

Freakish. Is this some sort of golden mean for the dimensions of handheld communication devices?