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Photos, mostly

 Touristy photos

• England
  Bliss Tweed Mill, Bushy Park, East Horsley Towers, Ham House, Hampton Court, Kew, Kilpeck church, Ludlow, Notting Hill carnival, Polesden Lacey, The Ridgeway, Rousham, Stratford upon Avon, Wimpole Hall
• Japan
  Tokyo skyscape, Awa-odori in Kagurazaka
• Czech Republic
  Hluboká, Jihlava, Jindrichuv Hradec, Kratochvíle, Pec, Slavonice, Tábor, Telc, Trebon
• Bavaria
  Augsburg, Bamberg, Dinkelsbühl, Forchheim, Freising, Friedberg, Landshut, Munich, Regensburg, Straubing, opticians
• Wales

 Pics of (others') works of art

• Jonathan Borofsky, The Walking Man, c.1996
• Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 2000
• John Buckley, untitled, 1986
• Bernard Matemera, metamorphoses, 1988-98

Adverts

An occasional series of remarkable ads [not all are for the young or the faint of heart]

• Big man scares away motorcyclist
• Passionate sausages
• Vodafone salesman goes groovy

Toys

• Tom Scott explains how to test the shutter and meter of a Canon F-1
• OED lite (one-kilogram Oxford English Dictionary)
• 40mm filter size (If you don't know what this means, don't look. Really.)

 Tirades and anti-tirades

Digital cameras -- their shoddy design, their makers' misleading descriptions, and the gaga "experts" who evaluate them.

 Browser postdogmatism.

Eye candy

 Just do it now.

 Tune out, turn off (almost).

From the scanner

The Invention of a New Religion (1912), by Basil Hall Chamberlain.

 Mail me (Peter Evans).