Saturday Quick Hit and Varia

These are a day late because of a mid-afternoon hike into the Akamas Peninsula yesterday. I’ll post some photos of it on Monday most likely. In the meantime, get your Saturday started right with some quick hits and varia.

• Some efforts to prepare the Corinthian Diolkos more interesting for tourists and protected. Let’s hope they don’t read David Pettegrew’s recent article.

• Hesperia 82.2 is up and ready to go, and this version is graced by Tracey Cullen’s retirement letter. She has been a fantastic editor and she has made Hesperia into the elegant, dynamic journal that it is today.

• The archaeology of and in video games and its Twitter feed. Considering how much our students play video games, think about video games, and learn from video games, this is probably worth following.

• The architecture of Taksim Square in Istanbul and current protests.

• A very cool approach to making more scholarship open access from the University of Michigan’s Press.

• Steve Conn on Gordon Gee’s retirement.

• Harvard and the humanities.

• Baseball at the Sydney Cricket Ground?! I’m not sure how I feel about this…

• On a similar note, the Ashes in Australia 2013/2014. I know what I’ll be watching on Christmas night (in the U.S.).

• In the meantime, there is India-Pakistan today making the otherwise irrelevant Champions Trophy seem significant. This is a cool article that puts that rivalry in perspective.

• I’m not entirely sure what this is, but I’m going to keep an eye on it.

• More on Man Camps in Williams County and the roads in McKenzie County.

• I love the logos of old airlines, almost as much as I love how certain old airplanes looked.

• Crazy stop action video of a supercell thunderstorm cloud.

• A nice corrective to how we think we should cook steak.

• What I’m reading: R. Maguire’s dissertation: Late Antique Basilicas on Cyprus: Sources, Contexts, History (2012). (Hey it’s long!)

• What I’m listening to: The Oblivians, Desperation.