Latest developments

So far in November there have been over 40 new posts on Los Thunderlads, with more appearing daily. Active categories include art, language, music, weird pictures, and dogs- lots of dogs.

Unfortunately, fellow Thunderlad Le Falcon has taken down his page about women's dress in Islam, so the link below no longer works. He did post a note on the same topic at Los Thunderlads last year, however.

Recent Activity on Los Thunderlads

The last two months have seen 121 posts on http://losthunderlads.wordpress.com/. That's up from 100 in the previous 14 months. I've been more active there and we've added some new authors.

Islam and Women's Clothing

Another losthunderlads blogger, known as Lefalcon, posted a short, rather scholarly piece about Islam on a stand-alone wordpress page. Titled "Women’s dress: What is prescribed?," the piece examines the relevant texts from the Quran and Hadith. In the comments, I ask Lefalcon about some interesting implications that seem to follow from his analysis.

http://qfm2wge8hpjv.wordpress.com/
http://losthunderlads.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/muslim-womens-dress/

Who is Acilius?

I post at losthunderlads.wordpress.com. Some posts from that blog will be copied here from time to time.

Gaius Acilius was one of Rome's first historians. We have only a very few brief fragments of his works and an equally sparse set of comments from those who had read it, not enough to be sure of anything about him. Some scholars have seen in these scraps the founder of the tradition of sourly pessimistic Latin historians, the tradition that would give us Tacitus and Ammianus Marcellinus. Whatever the truth about Gaius Acilius, this idea of him intrigues me and has led me to use his name as an online pseudonym for some time now.