Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s a varia and quick hits from the road. It was close to 60 degrees in our nation’s capital yesterday, but today it supposed to be a far more North Dakota-like mid-30s. I’m actually glad because I worried I might melt.

So a small gaggle of varia and quick hits to wrap up the week:

• Brief notes on the digital session at the Archaeological Institute of America meetings this past weekend.

• Tony Grafton on digital history and the American Historical Association.

• Some thoughts on blogging with comments and without.

• Some more space archaeology (via Richard Rothaus).

• The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. (also via Richard Rothaus)

• What happens to a town when almost everyone leaves and the waters of Devil’s Lake rise.

• A reference to Actor Network Theory in tech journalism.

• Rough day for Indian Cricket. How about David Warner?

• If you haven’t, check out our first Teaching Thursday of the new semester.

• What I’m reading: R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History. (Oxford 1946).

• What I’m listening to: Dengue Fever, Cannibal Courtship and Venus on Earth.