Yesterday, blogger.com was overwhelmed by the demands of people like me from all over who rely on her every day, every hour, to show our findings and notions to the world. Some, not all, of the pictures we had posted were missing.


Our sites looked like the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston after the theft of several of its paintings in March 1990. They've never been found. The Gardner has simply left the frames where they were, empty. Image from the New York Times.


Bloggers were luckier--our images returned to our sites after a few hours with the help of gentle experts like those above installing an exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool. Image from their Flickr set.