Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a brisk winter morning here in North Dakotaland (and a little bit brisker than everywhere else in Grand Forksland). I’ve found that brisk winter mornings are great for coffee, a warm laptop, and a stack of 5-page student papers. 

But before I get down to grading the last batch of student work from 2013, I probably should offer you the penultimate varia and quick hits of 2013.

Enjoy!

• Peter Brown offers some perspectives on the study of Late Antiquity, Byzantine studies, and Dumbarton Oaks over the last 40 years. 

• Word from Hesperia’s Princeton Office is that Hesperia 82.4 went to the printers this week. We’re looking forward to H. Forbes’s article on manuring and off-site artifact scatters in the new year and Davis’s and Stocker’s article on a medieval deposit from Pylos.

• I’m not sure what this is, but it seems cool: GapVis for the Hellespont.

• An old graduate school friend Febe Armanios contributes to this 60 minutes segment on Coptic Christians in Egypt.

• Nice fountain!

• The good folks at the Duke’s Integrating Digital Papyrology project share the lessons they learned from this ambitious and successful digital Classics project.

• The British Library discusses the next steps after putting over a million images in Flickr this past week. Here is their Flickr feed.

• Snow in the Middle East (from the scenic to the tragic).

• The Ble Polykatoikia in Exarchia Athens celebrates its 80th birthday.

• Elsevier continues to battle against the circulation of knowledge. 

• Here’s how to make yourself look like a Byzantine princess.

• I’m enjoying this blog on Mt. Athos.

• This is so cool: global wind patterns.

• Using LiDAR to map ruins.

• Congratulations to the Aussies for retaining the Ashes.

• Music at the Kelly Natatorium in Philadelphia.

• The struggles of Greek fish farms with reporting from Sophiko in the Corinthia.

• The Way of the Shovel: Arts as Archaeology.

• Fighting the good fight on grade inflation.

• These twovideos offer genius advice.

• This is something right from a William Gibson novel (I mean, not literally).

• Let’s say your really into the Sorlie Bridge in Grand Forks…

• What I’m reading: 70 papers and exams and a friend’s book manuscript.

• What I’m listening to: Waxahatchee, Cerulean Salt; The Knife, Shaking the Habitual.