Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It is innings break in the second Ashes test this morning so a perfect time to prepare some quick hits and varia. England’s final wicket partnership was a bit of bother, but I think Australia has a very reasonable chase. Hopefully we’ll have a couple of exciting mornings of cricket this weekend.

We also hope for some good weather so we can enjoy some long summer days on our front porch. While we’re hoping for the cricket and the weather, you can enjoy a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Peter Brown essays on new books on Late Antiquity by Glenn Bowersock and Patricia Crone in The New York Review of Books.

• Restored wall painting from Ephesus. Brilliant.

• Looted Cypriot art goes home. 

• Airplaining to Byzantium or something like that. Some really cool vintage travel documents from Dumbarton Oaks.

• Resume Writing for Archaeologists. This should be required reading for every aspiring shovel bum.

• From the archivist at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This should be good. 

• WAIT: This is awesome.

• Visualizing the Blitz in London. This is a really amazing map.

• A pretty cool map of common American surnames.  

• Mapping and visualizing the battlefields of the Dakota War. Congratulations to Richard Rothaus and Tom Isern (at NDSU).

• Some endangered sounds. How do we document endangered sonic landscapes?

• The Potosi language used by miners in Bolivia. A man camp language!

• Some interesting views on oilfield culture and relationships and some essential objects for camper life.

• You didn’t read and retweet my first effort an blogging about audio gear? Why not? Just to hurt me? At least click through!

• It’s always fun when software I use recognizes how I use it. And check out the soon to appear issue of the Journal of Field Archaeology for some technical details on using Agisoft Photoscan in the field. 

• The Pixar Theory.

• The plan of a modern office. And a few interesting responses to how coffee shop owners and coffee shop patrons have different views of how coffee shops function in their daily lives. Patrons often use them as make-shift offices (I know that I did when I didn’t have a formal office), but owners often imagine that people gather there for coffee. 

• This is the real punk rock music.

• Reading may keep you young and writing my heal wounds. 

• What I’m reading: You expect me to edit, write, and READ this summer?

• What I’m listening to: Sleep Study, Nothing Can Destory; Various Artists, Anti Records Summer Sampler (2013) – for Tom Waits and Keith Richard’s version of Oh Shenandoah alone.