Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s a work from home Friday from in lovely North Dakotaland. I’ve set up my home office at long last and despite it being 40 degrees (F) this morning, I have managed to get it warm enough to write this mornings quick hits and varia.
Some music to brighten your morning:
Some kind of “bizarre Chinese old person choir” singing Lady Gaga.
El Tren Fantasma – Sounds of a train trip across Mexico.
This was brutal, but it’s nice to see that people haven’t lost their sense of humor over it.
More music related. A stack of stereo banners. I want the New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World to broadcast in STEREO.
Is taking attendance worth it? Think about it on Teaching Thursday.
One of our history majors coordinated the National Roll Call on UND’s campus. Why to go Mr. Pegg.
This is a vaguely depressing summary of recent scholarship on the state of American universities.
The Grand Forks B’nai Isreal Synagogue an the Montefiore Cemetery earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places. For more on the history of the synagogue go here.
Along similar lines, people have nominated Wikipedia for a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Remember the 2011 Cyprus Research Fund lecture is Monday at 4 pm on the beautiful University of North Dakota’s campus in the elegant East Asia Room of the Chester Fritz library. A reception kindly provided by the Department of History will follow.
Some old speedometer designs from Chevrolets (which made appearances in other GM cars).
More abandonment porn. This time it is an abandoned building in Bangkok. (via Boing Boing)
Even more: the abandoned train platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria.
A murmuration on video. Pretty amazing. (via Richard Rothaus)
Pretty cool thoughts on the McRib Sandwich.
Some great stuff from Whitewashed Tomb especially when Mr. Whitewash himself teamed up with Corinthian Matters to think about tsunamis and the harbor at Lechaion in the Corinthia.
Some amazing photographs and analysis at Objects-Buildings-Situations.
What I’m reading: James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed. Yale 2009.
What I’m listening to: Talk Talk, Laughing Stock; Suuns, Zeroes QC
Snow:
My newest tour vehicle:
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