Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s been a busy, cold, and curious week at Archaeology of the Mediterranean World headquarters, and I’d by lying if I said that I wasn’t happy to see it come to a close. 

In the meantime, I’ll focus on the weekend by providing you with a carefully curated gaggle of varia and quick hits.

• Excavation for the Larnaka sewage lines is revealing all sorts of ancient stuff. 

• The Archaeology of the Earliest Christians by Douglas Boin (Part 1). Someone needs to do an Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology…

• The Institute on Digital Archaeology: Method and Practice.

• Greek and Latin in an age of open data conference.

• A very large ancient cut block.

• Ramsay MacMullen, Why Do We Do What We Do? (Always an important question to ask at the end of a long week.)

• Britain in Athens in 1944.

• Slow film. You know, someone needs to do an edited volume on the Slow Movement.

• Fonts from Alien.

• Restoring an important 18th century home with glass (h/t to Cindy Prescott). I want to say something about glass houses here…

• Worley on approaching the academic job market.

• Two Point Ommen on liberty and the liberal arts. This is good.

• One of the great examples of squatting, abandonment, and adaptive reuse will soon be no more. They are relocating the urban squatters from Caracas’s Tower of David.

• How speakers work.

• “I don’t think our pro offense will work at the college level.”

• 50 years of the Kinks.

• You can watch the original version of Solaris for free (h/t to Richard Rathaus).

• Women and violence in the oil patch. 

• Some thoughts on Google+ (yeah, it still exists). 

• What I’m reading: A. Carusi, A. S. Hoel, T. Webmoor, and S. Woolgar eds. Visualization in the Age of Computerization. Routledge 2014.

• What I’m listening to: Yo La Tengo, Extra Painful; Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen.

It’s been a long week