Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s been a pretty exciting week at Archaeology of the Mediterranean World headquarters. We saw the first sustained snow, I started pecking away at a long overdue project, wrapped up a conference paper (next week!), published a collection of reprints fromNorth Dakota Quarterly, and watched the start of David Warner’s mighty double century. 

Despite all the excitement, I have had some time to grab a gaggle of quick hits and varia. 

• New and Improved (and updated) Punk Archaeology.

• A 3D plan of the theater (thats theatre from you commonwealth types) at Paphos.

• Theodoros Rakopoulos and Heath Cabot discuss Solidarity in Greece.

• Efforts to use digital technology (beep, boop, boop, boop) on the Herculaneum scrolls.

• Disturbing news concerning the Studios Monastery in Istanbul.

• TED prize for archaeologist tracking looting from space.

• Philip Marlowe’s Los Angeles. 

• Mike Wittgraf takes you on a ride on his motorcycle.

• Humanities majors still earn more than people who don’t got to college at all.

• Flyway is a gorgeous online literary journal from Iowa State. 

• Future Forms is an online catalogue of industrial design. (It’s a form of micromuseology.) 

• Omega Speemaster Dark Side of the Moon.

• Lots of buzz on this: The Decay of Twitter.

• What Open Access publishing actually costs. More interesting stuff published during University Press Week here and my thoughts over here. 

• What I’m reading: Helen Sword, Stylish Academic Writing. Cambridge 2012.

• What I’m listening to: Ork Records: New York, New York; Allen Toussaint, Southern Nights; Life, Love and Faith; (and the surprisingly good) Bright Mississippi. 

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