Notable web pages for this week

FRONTLINE: Digital Nation

Frontline has created a fascinating website to accompany its television broadcast of the documentary Digital Nation. The website includes a producer's blog, as well as the ability to "Watch Online", the 90-minute video, and then read a roundtable discussion by some of the participants in the film. The topics include "Living Faster", "Waging War", and "Virtual Worlds". Notable is the brief video called "Your Brain on Google", which compares a brain scan of a person when reading a book to when they are using Google. The results are surprising.

The Secrets of Tomb10A: Egypt 2000 BC

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston offers a virtual tour of Tomb10A in Deir-el-Bersha, the final resting place of Djehutynakht, a provincial governor in Middle Kingdom Egypt, the period from 2010 - 1961 B.C. In 1915, archaeologists associated with the Museum spent a summer excavating the tomb and discovered possibly the largest assemblage of burial artifacts from the Middle Kingdom period. The find included jewelry, walking sticks, a huge collection of model boats, architectural miniatures, Djehutynakht's coffin, and a mummified head, that might be Djehutynakht's. This web exhibition includes contemporary and historic photographs of the tomb site and the results of CT scans of the head. There is also a section of zoom-able images of the coffin and the boats.

The summaries of the above two sites have been provided by the Internet Scout Project

Another site which may be valuable to readers in light of the present economy is GoBankingRates.com. Current rates can be easily compared and links are provided to many financial institution sites. Information is available on topics such as banking, investments, mortgages, investments, credit cards, loans, retirement, and debt. Especially useful at this time of year are the writings offered on filing taxes.