I love 'Then and now' photo comparisons, and this post has some neat ones from the history of Saint Petersburg (one 'then' is even from 1908.)

http://retro-piter.livejournal.com/442914.html (more here).

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I was reading a blog of a fannish not-quite-acquaintance and, looking at the blogger herself and her commenters, realized suddenly that there's a lot of people who buy fannish stuff online on impulse and then when it comes, they're not so enthusiastic and don't know what to do with it - and still do it next time, just for the thrill of "want => ( Read more... )