Stuff to peruse before y'all hit the links ... golf or web (I'm doing both today!):

Lingua Latina has some final World Cup thoughts ...

Hobbyblog has a Gallienus/Fides Militum ...

Iconoclasm offers us a reviewish thing of David Mattingly's latest ... there's also (I just noticed) a piece on Late Antique Mosaics in Belgium ...

Bestiaria has some proverbia de nautis et naufragiis ... there's also a list of all the Apostle Thomas posts ...

PhDiva DK points us to a German article on Globalization in the Roman Empire ...

Also: US posted to the Classics list a very useful item: Animals in Graeco-Roman Egypt and Beyond - A Select Bibliography (a 22-page pdf!)

Nothing really classical about this one, except very tangentially (the Stoa points us to it and connects it to Augustus' horologium), but the latest bit of marketing of McDonald's in Chicago is seriously cool ...