links for 2006-10-09

A decent overview of a man’s Viking costume, reconstructed mostly from finds at the Birka site. Not definitive by any stretch, but a good starting place to see what their clothes were like.

This is pretty amazing stuff. The guy sketches on a computer screen-like thing, and then a computer understands what he’s wanting the model to do.

I’ve never really watched the Daily Show much, but after watching this, I may very well begin watching it.