Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a windy and damp fall day here in North Dakotaland. Perfect of hunkering down over a hot cup of coffee and ruminating over some quick hits and varia.

• Ottoman History Podcasts. How cool is that?

• I love that you can now download certain publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art for free. Like this.

• Revisiting Nowhere Magazine for the web via Kickstarter. Sounds like a good idea to me.

• Two things to put on your calendar next week if you like in the Grand Forks area: (1) The Arts and Culture Conference: Binary Inventions: Arts and Culture in the Digital Age and (2) the Cyprus Research Fund Lecture: Dimitri Nakassis, Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kinds: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece.

• Some interesting news about recent work around the agora in Paphos.

• It’s sad to hear what happened out in Bucyrus, ND on Wednesday. Lovely old wood-framed church.

• The situation in Greece produces some of the most unpleasant news.

• Geodata on our proximity to Starbucks.

• I can accept being no more than 150 miles from a Starbucks, but I am not sure that I’m ready for this.

• It’s really interesting to see how the University of Wisconsin is spinning renewed excavations at Troy.

• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are some of the coolest things ever and this is a particularly cool and well-curated collection.

• This is so cool.

• Stone tools for the 21st century.

• I love the Olivetti Lettera 25 in RED.

• This is a lovely little movie about how cool it is to drive a street legal Porsche 962C in Japan.

• I’ve probably linked to this before, but I really like Ohio State’s Origin’s ehistory journal/magazine. 

• My buddy Mark Jendysik dropping NoDak wisdom all over the NYTimes Five Thirty Eight blog.

• More on the revolutionary idea that students learn more when they write more.

• What I’m reading: (I can’t tell you, it’s a peer review).

• What I’m listening to: The Pooh Sticks, Great White Wonder; Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!; The Gun Club, Fire of Love.