Friday Varia and Quick Hits

I know its been a while, but after a little summer hiatus, I think I’ll start up my Friday Quick Hits and Varia again. There has been a  good bit of interesting stuff this summer on the interwebs and I’ll do what I can to sort through my backlog and pass on the greatest hits.

• It’s worth a few minutes to surf through this year’s posts on Rangar Cline’s Under the Mediterranean Sun.

• Congratulations to Jon Frey for receiving an NEH Digital Implementation Grant for their work to produce an online workspace for the study of archaeological notebooks. 

• Adam Rabinowitz writes about reading Herodotus spatially on Hestia: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

• Sebastian Heath is using structure-from-motion 3D images of Roman Emperors in his Roman archaeology course.

• Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a web-serial graphic novel.

• Along similar lines: Isocrates, Against the Sophists adapted to 21st century academia.

• Drunk Archaeology and my response.

• Digital Humanities, innovation, and sustainability.

• I guess Ivy League schools are overrated. 

• Shipping containers as apartments. This is depressing.

• Ten books on teaching.

• What I’m reading: S. Foote and E. Mazzolini, Histories on the Dustheap. 2012.

• What I’m listening to: Amen Dunes, Love.