Ranting to /dev/null

So that's what he looked like

Surfing today, I stumbled across Thanatos.net which sports a gallery of death masks. Sounds creepy, isn't really. It's kind of cool to see what, say, Julius Caesar or Frederic Chopin looked like. Gives a bit of concreteness to the history, you know? I mean, we all know on some level that these historical figures were actually people, but not generally on the level of actually having faces. These images are admittedly not created when their subjects were looking their best, but still.