It’s a windy and damp fall day here in North Dakotaland. Perfect of hunkering down over a hot cup of coffee and ruminating over some quick hits and varia.
- Ottoman History Podcasts. How cool is that?
- I love that you can now download certain publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art for free. Like this.
- Revisiting Nowhere Magazine for the web via Kickstarter. Sounds like a good idea to me.
- Two things to put on your calendar next week if you like in the Grand Forks area: (1) The Arts and Culture Conference: Binary Inventions: Arts and Culture in the Digital Age and (2) the Cyprus Research Fund Lecture: Dimitri Nakassis, Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kinds: Reconstructing Society in Late Bronze Age Greece.
- Some interesting news about recent work around the agora in Paphos.
- It’s sad to hear what happened out in Bucyrus, ND on Wednesday. Lovely old wood-framed church.
- The situation in Greece produces some of the most unpleasant news.
- Geodata on our proximity to Starbucks.
- I can accept being no more than 150 miles from a Starbucks, but I am not sure that I’m ready for this.
- It’s really interesting to see how the University of Wisconsin is spinning renewed excavations at Troy.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are some of the coolest things ever and this is a particularly cool and well-curated collection.
- This is so cool.
- Stone tools for the 21st century.
- I love the Olivetti Lettera 25 in RED.
- This is a lovely little movie about how cool it is to drive a street legal Porsche 962C in Japan.
- I’ve probably linked to this before, but I really like Ohio State’s Origin’s ehistory journal/magazine.
- My buddy Mark Jendysik dropping NoDak wisdom all over the NYTimes Five Thirty Eight blog.
- More on the revolutionary idea that students learn more when they write more.
- What I’m reading: (I can’t tell you, it’s a peer review).
- What I’m listening to: The Pooh Sticks, Great White Wonder; Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!; The Gun Club, Fire of Love.
