Friday Varia and Quick Hits

A rainy but warm day here in North Dakotaland. So I have plenty of excuses to stay inside and prepare a nice gaggle of quick hits and varia.

• The 13th century frescoes from the chapel at Lysi which have been on display at the Menil Collection in Houston for 15 years, are going back to Cyprus.

• A graffiti project in the famous Arizona airplane boneyard is pretty cool.

• Some awesome thoughts on term papers and the terms of the discourse over on Teaching Thursday.

• If you can’t check out the Kostis Kourelis’s curated exhibit on George von Peschke, check out the online gallery – proudly powered by Omeka.

• A world without people (via Dallas Deforest).

• Next week is the 43rd annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference. Check out an interview on Prairie Public Radio with the director Heidi Czerwiec.

• Some nice applications to help us write.

• More great stuff from Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU.

• For all that has been written about the end of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s publication on paper, relatively little of it has been particularly interesting.

• I live in a corrupt state.

• This is an interesting essay both in what is says and how it says it.

• A life in numbers, and it makes my modest daily data collection routine seem lame.

• Living Byzantium.

• Where have I seen him before?

• Susie and I watched the last two overs of Bangladesh v. Pakistan in my office yesterday at lunch (what? huh? who said what?). We were on the edge of our seats. Tamim Iqbal, was  practically dropped from the side prior the the tournament. After scoring his fourth 50 in four games, he turned to the Bangladesh bench and counting his four half centuries. Priceless.

• Smell like Cyprus. Ew.

• Spiders fleeing Australian flood waters. Eww.

• This is cool, though. (via Kottke)

• What I’m reading: D. Scott, Conscripts of Modernity. (Duke 2004)

• What I’m listening to: The Shins, Port of Morrow