Mx Tynehorne’s link roundup, volume LXXII

The Dance of Death — a very comprehensive old website on this theme in mediæval and early modern European art Pirating the Pirates, or, on the underground of film preservation To grieve, or not to grieve?: Kevin Buzzard on the new era of mathematics Try your own hand at redrawing Europe at the Congress of Berlin! I love the fuckass jaunty tune it plays at the start. A strangely relaxing watercolour playground Some winning entries in this year’s premier microscopic-photography competition Commission on Federal Paperwork: Drawings by Carol, 1976–1977 Down in That London, a special report from the night of Oxford Street’s pedestrianisation (also, wow, how come Newcastle managed to pedestrianise our main shopping street first?) The Odyssey: A Greek Reader The New Yorker alleges that Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made Also thence: a profile of James Daunt, CEO of Waterstones, interspersed with how rumours of literacy’s death have been greatly exaggerated…