Well this is interesting

it’s worse than that.

The datasets are online, and individual pages can be downloaded, but they are large tiff files.

There’s a spreadsheet cataloging all the images-- some of the letters are listed as “opened”, so they aren’t extraordinary.

As for myself, I can’t read dutch, so I’ll leave the 17th century netherlandish gossiping to others.

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This is great!

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They’re gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess.

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Great hair.

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The headline is a bit of a bait and switch.

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What do you want to bet that the marketing materials say the UI is “intuitive”

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That’s hilarious!

I have to go into Reader View, but:

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I remember something similar to this from a Dave Berg book…it was a mousy-looking man and his wife going to a cocktail party and he was wearing a loud and large-checked blazer; his wife was nagging him about it, and he said that he was tired of being overlooked, he wanted to stand out! Well, this taking place in the late 1960s/early 1970s, there was OpArt at the host’s house…and Mr. Mousy stood right in front of a painting with the exact same pattern as his jacket!

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That is fabulous. And apparently not staged. Patience was used.

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However, this picture was staged by a friend:

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ÞRA version:

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Not sure if it’s real history… but always thought the first canal there was between the Nile and the Dead Sea or whatever, going a long way back.

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I think it ran from the Nile to the Bitter Lakes and then south.

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