Cool juxtapositions

A gentleman and a scholar

On my Twitter stream this morning was this from kjell_:

“The disappearance of age-old pleasures and privileges is the first unmistakable sign of progress.” -Bernard Rudofsky

followed by this from Vaguery:

scanning an 1850 Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, just ’cause. And for the Agassiz

Of course it’s convenient that Vaguery’s Twitter things have a very high proportion of “scanning some cool old document to save it for the world”. Still, I thought it was cool :-).

And I don’t know what the rest of you are doing this evening, but we’re going to the British Museum to see the Chinese terra cotta army (or the bit of it that’s on display there at the moment)! You never know, I might take a photo (or 200).

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A little distraction for a Friday

Launchpad screenshot

Looking for something fun for a Friday afternoon? Hard to beat the joys of Launchball! This is an amazingly fun and clever little game, and I wasted all too many minutes going through the levels. And it’s from the Science Museum just down the way in London.

Don’t blame me for this distraction – it’s all Kjell’s fault.

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