The line of succession to the British
The line of succession to the British Throne, which has on it 1286 members. AKA, the thing you should show someone should they ask you the definition of “thorough”.
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Is lazy reporting hurting the visual arts?
Is lazy reporting hurting the visual arts? Jonathan Jones argues that almost all reporting about art takes one of six forms: expensive art, graffiti, plagiarism, earth-shattering discoveries, and restoration. Looking back through kottke.org’s art tag page, I am guilty of linking to stories of all those types. Eep.
Without the associated covers, this list of
Without the associated covers, this list of the AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers winners for “outstanding book and book cover design produced in 2006” is pretty useless. (Anyone want to track all of these covers down? I’ll host (or link to) the results on kottke.org.)
Update: Photos of the covers and books are all available on the AIGA Design Archives site. No permalink tho. :( (thx, tbit)
The Guardian has been collecting the best
The Guardian has been collecting the best interviews from the past century. Interviewees include John Lennon, Marlon Brando, Adolf Hitler, and Marilyn Monroe. An impressive trove.
A subjective list — is there any
A subjective list — is there any other kind? — of the top 10 issues of McSweeney’s magazine.
The Guardian has an extensive list of
The Guardian has an extensive list of writers and the rooms in which they write (with photos and descriptions by the authors). For whatever reason, I became very interested in writers’ rooms after reading Witold Rybczynski’s The Most Beautiful House in the World, in which he describes several rooms built by writers specifically for working in, including one author who built a completely separate room apart from his house which combined his need for solitude with a short commute. (thx, youngna)
Twelve essential photographic facts, formulas, and rules
Twelve essential photographic facts, formulas, and rules of thumb.
Anatomical gray card. Metering off an 18-percent neutral gray card is a good way to get a midtone reading that will give you a good overall exposure of a scene. Forgot your gray card? Hold your open hand up so it’s facing the light, take a reading off your palm, open up one stop, and shoot. (Various skin tones rarely account for even a full-stop difference.)
It seems as though the only people
It seems as though the only people who put out manifestos these days are designers and serial killers. 50 manifestos from such designers as Zaha Hadid, Stefan Sagmeister, Rem Koolhaas, and John Maeda.
The top 100 greatest beatdowns in history, most
The top 100 greatest beatdowns in history, most of them related to sports. #1 is Secretariat’s 31-length victory at Belmont, the footage of which is well worth a look if you haven’t seen it. That horse so totally pours it on down the stretch that it gives me goosebumps every time I watch it. (thx, david)
A brief history of programming languages from
A brief history of programming languages from the September 1995 issue of Byte magazine. Amazing how many of these languages are now extinct or otherwise not widely used…and that Perl, PHP, Java, JavaScript, etc. didn’t make the list.
Update: I corrected the above statement about Perl et. al. not existing and modified it to read that they didn’t make the list. Perl, Ruby, nd Java all existed in one form or another in 1995. (thx to everyone who sent this in)
A list of film techniques that Alfred
A list of film techniques that Alfred Hitchcock used in making his movies.
Never mind Transformers, here’s a look at
Never mind Transformers, here’s a look at the possible summer blockbusters of 2008. Here are a couple more lists of 2008 movies: FirstShowing.net and Box Office Mojo.
Top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills, including
Top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills, including Cobol, PowerBuilder, and cc:Mail. “A rough translation of OS/2 could be ‘wrong horse.’”
100 blogs they love so much that they’re
100 blogs they love so much that they’re not going to link to a single one.
Update: Several people pointed out that the original list is available with links at PC World. Of course, it’s a pageview-pumping multiple page situation, so you’ll want the print version instead. (Yes, this is me punching a gift horse in the mouth, or whatever that expression is.)
The American Film Institute has refreshed their
The American Film Institute has refreshed their list of the top 100 movies…here’s a listing comparing the new list with the one from 1998. Godfather Part II at #32 is still a travesty.
Update: Roger Ebert weighs in on the list.
Five Flickr sets that aren’t driving the
Five Flickr sets that aren’t driving the long-term traffic you’d hoped for. Merlin brings the funny, you make with the laughing.
A bunch of writers pick their favorite
A bunch of writers pick their favorite novel -> movie adaptations. (thx, david)
100 hot women chosen by lesbians
Hot 100 women chosen by lesbians. A nice counterpoint to similar lists from Maxim and People.
The 2007 MacTech 25 “honors the most influential people
The 2007 MacTech 25 “honors the most influential people in the Macintosh community”. Includes a single woman.
Top 20 plays of the 2007 NBA playoffs (so
Top 20 plays of the 2007 NBA playoffs (so far). It’s a good list but YouTube sucks for watching sports highlights…the quality is just too low. (via truehoop)
Tiger Woods tops this year’s list of
Tiger Woods tops this year’s list of top-earning American athletes. He makes $111M a year, more than twice as much as the fellow in second place. A list of the top-earning non-American athletes is available as well. (via cyn-c)
From a poll in the Guardian: George
From a poll in the Guardian: George Orwell’s 1984 is the definitive book of the 20th century. Gatsby, Grapes, and Brave New World also make the top 10 list.
Some prominent writers (Eggers, Foer, Nicole Krauss)
Some prominent writers (Eggers, Foer, Nicole Krauss) tell us about what they’ve been reading recently. In other summer reading news, Rebecca Blood is keeping track of various summer book lists that are popping up around the web.
Another one of those lists you love
Another one of those lists you love to hate: the 25 best movies you’ve never seen. Putting the horrible Boondock Saints on the list is a major boner, especially just ahead of Peter Jackson’s pre-Rings gem Heavenly Creatures.
100 words every high school graduate should know.
100 words every high school graduate should know. Alternate title: 100 mostly useless words.
Twelve tips for travelling across the United
Twelve tips for travelling across the United States by train. “12. Train Love. I wish you the best of luck in finding a soulmate via subsidized government transportation.”
List of cognitive biases. “Mere exposure effect
List of cognitive biases. “Mere exposure effect - the tendency for people to express undue liking for things merely because they are familiar with them.” See how many of these you exhibit while reading things on the web!
100 quotes from 100 movies featuring the numbers 1 through 100.
100 quotes from 100 movies featuring the numbers 1 through 100. A list of the movies is available here.
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