Friday Varia and Quick Hits

A balmy midwinter is making the middle weeks of the semester seem just a bit easier here in North Dakotaland. It’s almost enough to make me overlook all the troubles in the world.

If you haven’t had a chance to download our book, Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coast Town from the ASOR website, you should! Go here.

Also, be sure to check out next week’s Facebook Live cast with Eric Burin, editor of Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College from The Digital Press at UND. We’re going to broadcast from the book’s Facebook page starting at 1pm on Tuesday.

If that’s still not enough to keep you distracted over the weekend, here’s a little list of quick hits and varia:

• The newest Hesperia is out. It feels a bit olde skool.

• The Via Triumphalis is Medieval Rome.

• The street cats of Istanbul. 

• The library of Diodorus Sicilus.

• Hope you’ve enjoy Love Your Data Week 2017.

• Forensic architecture.

• Coders saving NASA data feat. Eric Kansa!

• The first computer music.

• Things at UND must be crazy if students have started to notice.

• How to play a gig by Thelonious Monk.

• 17.90 is the short course 50 free is very, very fast.

• The disappearing art of copy editing.

• Ian Bogost on the myth of Apple design.

• Congratulations to Peter Johnson on his retirement from UND. We only wish it were under happier circumstances.

• What I’m (still) reading: M. DeLanda, A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History. New York 1997

• What I’m listening to: Fantastic Negrito, The Last Days of Oakland. 

Milo, The Barge, and Sharkie