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Inside the International Yacht Restoration School.

Deck prisms.

In trying to set my Facebook to Latin, because why not, I discovered there’s a 1337-speak option as well. Not sure how I feel about my photos section being titled “pr0n”… but I giggle every time I log in.
Also, birthdays are called “5p4wn d4t3z”. LOL.

What? A book creator app on Wikipedia?
With the book creator you can create a book containing wiki pages of your choice. You can export the book in different formats (for example PDF or ODF) or order a printed copy.
Apparently it’s been available on non-English Wikipedias for a while, but now it’s open to everyone. Part [...]

This could be the steps of Faunce. Or a spread in the most recent Urban Outfitters catalog. But it’s actually one in a series of photos called California Trip by Dennis Stock… taken in 1968.

Latin: “album, albī — neut., white; white tablet, record, list register.” So the “White Album” is… hm.
Old English: “bānloca — masc., joint, limb, skeleton.” A kenning: bone-lock.
Speaking of Old English, look at this, a Folio Society edition of Seamus Heaney’s famous Beowulf translation. I want it bad. Look at those linocuts. It sells for $126… [...]

This is, quite likely, the greatest picture ever taken.