Friday Varia and Quick Hits

We’re getting ready to head out west for another short field season in the Bakken Oil Patch, but before we go, Kyle Cassidy will give a talk at noon today, and I’ll offer up a little gaggle of quick hits and varia.

Enjoy:

• If you’re a Windows Server and Network Administrator and want to work at Catalhoyuk, go here.

• More on the future of the book.

• Floating cars!

• News on Pompeii.

• The economic basis of the college as country club.

• Gregory Nagy teaching an edX course on the ancient Greek hero.

• Air pollution in Ancient Rome.

• How to engooden your powerpointers.

• Sweet timeline application using Googles.

• The larger the past gets the smaller our present feels.

• What it takes to put on a Coursera course.

• Oscar Broneer’s Slide Collection.

• Rebecca Solnit on new forms of settlement.

• New ideas in scholarly publishing from the library.

• What I’m listening to: Frightened Rabbit, Pedestrian Verse.  

• What I’m reading: M. Decker, Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. Oxford 2009.