The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World: Friday Varia and Quck Hits

It's the last Friday of finals' week and my stack of grading has reached imaginable proportions. So, there's plenty of time for a Friday varia and quick hits. Plus, it's sunny for the first time in weeks.

I succumbed to peer pressure and have an academia.edu page. I'm not sure what it will do for me, but I have it. Two people follow me.
I'm pretty amused by all these "lost" Apple 4th generation iPhones. I am not sure why it is taking so long for people to figure out that it's a viral marketing campaign. Do you think that they might have learned to appreciate these tactics from the sustained pre-iPad buzz which surely contributed to the significant sales bounce in the first few weeks of its release?
Home grown tech 'n' teaching blogger Mark Grabe writes a bit about and on Posterous this week.
I received my Second Edition of Matthew Johnson's Archaeological Theory today. Weekend reading.
I like messed around a bit with the new Zotero mapping plug-in (yep, even plug-ins have plug-ins) and I like what Shawn Graham observes regarding the potential to map things from, say, an OpenContext.org or Omeka database.
I spent a few hours a day over the last few days playing around with RapidMiner. It's pretty cool.
If you haven't checked out our series of reflection from first year faculty at the University of North Dakota, you need to hop over the Teaching Thursday.
I ordered a new Macbook Pro. I'm going down to 15 inches. With cheap and large monitors these days, I no longer see the need for the 17 inch laptop.
Australia v. Pakistan in the World T20 Final Four, and England looms on the horizon, and Monte Carlo. A good weekend for sport.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head this sunny Friday morning. The prospects of finishing grading, cleaning up my office, and taking a week to reflect and prepare for Cyprus are amazingly appealing right now.