<\/a><\/p>\n

On my Twitter stream this morning was this from kjell_<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n“The disappearance of age-old pleasures and privileges is the first unmistakable sign of progress.” -Bernard Rudofsky\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

followed by this from Vaguery<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nscanning an 1850 Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, just ’cause. And for the Agassiz\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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 :-).<\/p>\n

And I don’t know what the rest of you are doing this evening, but we’re going to the British Museum<\/a> to see the Chinese terra cotta army<\/a> (or the bit of it that’s on display there at the moment)! You never know, I might take a photo (or 200).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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