It Wasn’t Until Reading The Second Issue Of The Search That I Remembered That The 2x3-foot Map Of The

Mending sail on the German four-masted steel barque Magdalene Vinnen.

In 1945, this ship was awarded to the Soviet Union as war compensation and renamed (dun dun dun...) SEDOV. It is now the largest operational tall ship in existence.

Photo by Samuel J. Hood, 1933 or maybe 1935.

re: chromophobia... of course these chromophobes idolized a Greek/Roman past full of cool white marble.... which we've since discovered was actually a gaudily painted riot of color!

OMG!!! I FORGET PEOPLE DON’T KNOW THIS!

Yes, all those aloof, “pure” white statues from Ancient Greece?

They actually looked like this:

Vinzenz Brinkmann, much to the apparent chagrin of Westerners everywhere, used ultraviolet light to reveal the original paint schemes of these statues that the millennia had washed away.

And to underscore the Chromophobia?

Check out this graphic that i09 made for their leading image for this story:

You can check out a video here to learn more about the methods used to discover the original paint schemes of these statues and reliefs.

A brief but lovely midwinter tune, written by a friend of mine.

Give thanks for this, the shortest day,

Keep out the winter's breath

Grant us health and peace and faith

And help us get some rest.

OH MY GOD one of our tigers did this (and it isn’t stuck on his head; one of the keepers went in to see if he needed help and he undid this and redid it on his own a few times) but oh my god hE’S PRETENDING TO BE A LION IM GONNA DIE

mako with mako in the mako on a mako

Brinton Turkle

#bookherd #the joan watson show #will she read this post? #or will she scroll past it REAL FAST because she doesn't want to be spoiled? #heheh #can we discuss her with impunity?? #PERHAPS WE CAN

no

yeah, sure, blah blah blah Clyde and bikinis and nude beaches, but handstand pushups? I fall over just trying to imagine doing one of those.

Elderly man knitting garments during drive to provide goods to servicemen during the war.

RSS: I need it.

This post is not about the day to day operations of The Old Reader or anything of that nature. It’s about how our team came to get involved with RSS and how we see the future of this application and technology that we value so highly.

As a long time user of RSS and Google Reader, I’ve...