links for 2009-06-05

“Right “now” (early June in 1666) the English and Dutch are half-way through the Four Days Battle at sea and so we get to read updates in “real time” as Pepys hears them. The first day he didn’t even mention what was going on. Yesterday he was busy helping the war effort” A diary of a famous Englishman is being tweeted more or less in sync with “our” time. What a wonderful idea.