Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It has been an exciting, but exhausting two weeks since my last Friday Quick Hits and Varia. 

Next week, I wrap up the semester, recover from my Atari dig, and start to prepare for WARP.

• A strange article on repatriated antiquities and museums.

• Who knows?

• An ancient house in Sudan.

• Coeliac disease in antiquity.

• Mystery text deciphered.

• Why writing longhand may be better than typing (the scholarly article is here).

• A cool tiny house from GM.

• Adjuncts revolt.

• Some links on the Atari dig:

Some punk archaeology over at the AAA blog.

Almost Archaeology.

Readwrite.

Wired.

• Relics of technology.

• Restored movie theaters.

• Abandonment and squatting in Caracas, Venezuela. 

• What I’m reading: D.B. Weiss, Lucky Wander Boy. New York 2003; I. Bogost and N. Montfort, Racing the Beam: the Atari Video Computer System. Cambridge, MA 2009.

• What I’m listening to: The Moles, Flashbacks and Dream Sequences: The Story of the Moles.