Friday Quick Hits and Varia

A beautiful, crisp, sunny fall morning in North Dakotaland and leisurely walk onto campus put me in the perfect mood for some varia and quick hits.

• Endless chat about the fragment of papyrus that mentions Jesus’s wife. Here’s Karen King’s paper (pdf).

• A pretty remarkable comic over at XKCD (be sure to scroll around the world!).

• The ICC World Twenty20 is going on.

• Some thoughts on cheating.

• From Richard Rothaus: the sounds of the past.

• The new Islamic Galleries at the Louvre.

• New F. Scott Fitzgerald and some thoughts about life after 40 (this is a preoccupation of mine).

• Some more thoughts on the future of Greece.

• USA Today’s new design. Pretty nice.

• MNopedia.

• Beatnik Slang.

• Some opinions on Apple’s new maps in i06.

• What I’m reading: M. Veikou, Byzantine Epirus. Brill 2012.

• What I’m listening to: Grizzly Bear, Shields; Total Loss, How to Dress Well.