Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It was officially cold today in North Dakotaland, but never too cold for a little gaggle of quick hits and varia (huddled together to keep warm!).

• Haunted libraries are perfect as we approach Halloween (via Chuck Jones).

• The tale of the Jesus Wife papyrus is getting more and more curious (here’s a longish article arguing that the papyrus is fake (pdf)).

• The use of crowd sourcing to shame corruption in Greece (via Dimitri Nakassis).

• Some super cool punk archaeology ruminations.

• The vast quantity of geo-data over at the Wikipedias.

• Sometimes the keys to the city really mean the keys to the city!

• David Pettegrew’s Corinthian bibliography in Zotero is a monumental achievement! (Here’s a link to the library in Zotero.)

• The story of the lost rivers that run beneath our cities. 

• I added the images from powerpoint to the paper on man camps that I delivered at the Midwest Association of Canadian Studies Conference last week. 

• I don’t know why things like this have interested me so much lately. And a nice little description of WordPress’s new default font.

• A nice reference on McGill’s Classical Studies home page (under Fabulae).

• Congratulations to Peter Schultz for his Get Your Greek On! book which was funded through Kickstarter. I received the PDF of it this week and it is as advertised. Hopefully, he’ll have the PDF available somewhere for download soon!

• What I’m reading: Joseph H. Reynolds, Measured Out in Teaspoons: A Selection of Martingale Letters. (Ok, this is a shameless plug. The book is by my uncle and is a collection of letters that he sends about once a month to various people in his world. My feeling is that he took the idea of being a man of letters quite literally. His letters are full of charm and wit. If I was really nepotistic, I’d suggest that you buy your copy from here.)

• What I’m listening to: Tame Impala, Lonerism; A.C. Newman, Shut Down the Streets and The Slow Wonder.