random notes from all over...well, mostly Europe and Atlanta, as usual

Somebody bought the Czech canoeist's photo album for $799.99, so those of you inclined to rights-infringing plunder (but who owns the rights to those photographs, God and the intellectual property lawyers help us all?) had better go look lest eBay pull down the images and leave only the documentation.

I have written a few probably ill-advised and certainly Atlanta-centric notes on Counterforces lately, but the last of today's observations deals with a story in today's New York Times and is fair game for joculum, so I'll post it here under an LJ-cut.

By the way, I see from my diary that I was just as astounded to learn a year ago that Kate Mosse was writing the third of her timeslip adventure novels ("probably to be set in Egypt," I wrote) as I was when I expressed that opinion in the post of a few days back. I've observed before that I am capable of discovering the same book and the same piece of information at least twice and usually three or four times with the same exclamations of amazement.

Here are my ruminations on Michael Kimmelman's essay today on the renovations on Berlin's Museeninsel:

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