Friday Varia and Quick Hits

One of the simple pleasures in my life is reading Latin with a handful of undergraduates each week at Latin Friday Morning.  Good conversation, a great language, and Julius Caesar.

And another beautiful North Dakot-y sky:

Some quick hits and varia:

• Stand alone Zotero 3.0 Beta has made me fall in love with Zotero again.

• Some of William Gibson’s thoughts on cities in Scientific American.

• A gorgeous graphic history of the web.

• How Alan Lomax owns Jay-Z’s “Takeover” (h/t Brad Austin). There’s some sweet irony here when Jay-Z mocks Nas for not owning the rights to his own song:

Then I heard your album about your Tec on the dresser So yeah, I sampled your voice You was using it wrong You made it a hot line I made it a hot song And you ain’t get a coin, nigga You was getting fucked then I know who I paid, God – Serchlite publishing

• Some fun thoughts on blogging as public thinking.

• Did you remember to read your Teaching Thursday yesterday?

• Some abandonment porn.

• Indiana Jones teaches real archaeology via National Geographic.

• Are research papers a waste of time?

• A cool way to map knowledge at a university.

• What I’m reading: Betsey Robinson, Histories of Peirene: A Corinthian Fountain in Three Millennia (Princeton (Princeton 2011)

• What I’m listening to: Tinariwen, Aman Iman; Bunny Wailer, Blackheart Man.