Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It is muggy in North Dakotaland today. The kind of cool mugginess that makes you feel like you need to shower all day. The air is really thick. This must be the last gasp of summer and as good a time as any for some quick hits and varia.

• Thinking critically about archaeological field schools.

• Learn a dead language!

• The icons from Antifontis are (finally) returned not to the monastery, but to Cyprus.

• Richard Hodges does Mistras.

• Ron Stroud talks about Corinth XVIII.6. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: The Inscriptions published this week. 

• Loeb Library as design.

• More troubling news from Greece and another view.

• Martha Stewart visits Dumbarton Oaks and the tragic and curious history of the Dumbarton Oaks swimming pool.

• Some computer archaeology: saving a hard drive. 

• An abandoned stretch of the Pennsylvania turnpike.

• So you need a typeface.

• And the Pennsylvania suburbs.

• Making a mural.

• The UND Writers Conference falling on tough times. Goodbye, Writers Conference, Goodbye.

• Octopuses are so cool.

• An interview with Ralph Baer, the inventor of video games.

• Resistance and modern art.

• 7 Not So Fabulous Things about living in an oilfield trailer.

• Why did it take me so long to discover TSF Jazz?

• It’s always interesting to see how and why other people blog.

• What I’m listening to: Youth Lagoon, Wondrous Bughouse; Stan Getz and João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto.

• What I’m reading: ehhhh… long week of writing.