Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It’s a traveling Friday for the Mediterranean World machine. You can check out the reason for my travel here or you can just hang out and read some quick hits and varia. It’s your call.

• A hat tip and a congratulations to my host tomorrow night for getting Chersonesos the UNESCO World Heritage designation. The Byzantine phase of this site is important.

• Really, really, old wine from Dikili Dash. I’ll never forget wandering through various Macedonian villages with the American School tour looking for Dikili Dash.

• An “ancient” Ottoman town in Hungary. Cities that were once large are now small

• Archaeological Institute of America 2013 Photography Contest.

• ASORTV presents “Ask an Archaeologist” staring Angela Berlin from Boston University.

• Hosios Loukas panorama. Pretty sweet.

• Documenting Hagia Sophia.

• Changing the name of the venerable American Philological Association.

• New seats for very posh bottoms at Oxford.

• Abandonment porn: The house of Karl Faberge.

• 50 Years of the Ph.D. at North Dakota State University (49 more years and they’ll catch the University of North Dakota).

• The 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellows. 

• I assume that some of you probably saw the exchange between me and Prof. Jack Weinstein about the future of the library. If not, here’s his response to my response to his response. You can follow the conversation. This blog post is relevant too and not so great for my argument.

• Rothaus on sustainable housing in the Bakken oil patch.

• Greece and the NBA.

• The Roots and Sesame Street.

• What I’m reading: Scott McClanahan, Crapalachia: A Biography of Place. (2013)

• What I’m listening to: Meat Puppets, Meat Puppets II. Minutemen, 3-Way Tie (for last).