A list of 20 works of art you
A list of 20 works of art you need to see before you die. They want to make a list of 50…suggest your favorites in the comments.
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Alphabetical lists of jobs that Homer Simpson
Alphabetical lists of jobs that Homer Simpson has held. (via cyn-c)
Five great movie monologues. #1 is Merkin Muffley
Five great movie monologues. #1 is Merkin Muffley talking to Dmitri on the phone in Dr. Strangelove…one of my favorite scenes of any movie ever.
A collection of excuses for not blogging
A collection of excuses for not blogging more. “I haven’t had the internet and I have been drunk or busy alot.”
Paul Graham on the 18 mistakes that kill
Paul Graham on the 18 mistakes that kill startups. Some interesting stuff here, but heavily technology-biased (#6 Hiring Bad Progammers…what, everyone else on the team can be bad and you’ll still succeed?).
The 12 best movie pitches ever. “Idea #3: Two
The 12 best movie pitches ever. “Idea #3: Two childhood friends who are in love with each other but don’t know it (also, they’re a man and a woman) have a contest over twenty years to see who can have the biggest divorce, but end up falling in love with a husband and wife divorce lawyer team” …so far so good… “and the divorce laywer team’s daughter has invisible powers and can see fat guys naked and the guy (not the divorce lawyer) has a pet pug and the pug drives a little motorcycle.” (via waxy)
List of the 7 worst fonts. What, no
List of the 7 worst fonts. What, no Hobo or Brush Script? Comic Sans is, of course, #1 with a bullet. (via wider angle)
15 ways to improve your newspaper business. “1. Go
15 ways to improve your newspaper business. “1. Go out in street, see news, write it up.”
List of great insults. It may be
List of great insults. It may be apocryphal, but I’ve always loved the exchange between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill: “Lady Astor: ‘Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.’ Churchill: ‘Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.’” (via dooce)
Top 100 most popular classical music pieces, featuring
Top 100 most popular classical music pieces, featuring stuff like Beethoven’s 5th, Pomp and Circumstance, and Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
Surprisingly good list of the top 10 Web 2.0
Surprisingly good list of the top 10 Web 2.0 losers. It’s too early to pass judgement on Netscape (the site has shot to the top of Google search results for current events keywords because of the site’s high PageRank) and SixApart’s inclusion is wrong. The top four spots are right on; the Odeo situation is sad (I thought they were really onto something), but Flock, Edgeio, and Squidoo seemed not quite equal to the hype right from the beginning.
Fifty ways a manager can get his
Fifty ways a manager can get his good employees to quit. “Talk more than you listen” and “Mandate a new policy without consulting a single person that will have to live with it” are good tips. (via wider angle)
Stylus magazine has a list of their
Stylus magazine has a list of their top 100 favorite videos, complete with embedded YouTube clips of the videos themselves for your instant gratification. Ok, now let’s fight about what was excluded and how wrong that is… (via paul)
Megnut’s got the scoop: Gourmet magazine has
Megnut’s got the scoop: Gourmet magazine has named Alinea the best restaurant in the US, amazing considering its only been open a little more than a year. “[Grant Achatz] is redefining the American restaurant once again for an entirely new generation. And that — more than his gorgeous, inventive, and delicious food — is what makes Alinea the got-to-go-to restaurant in the country right now.” (I would argue that the food is the real reason to go, but whatever…)
A list of the 50 worst things ever
A list of the 50 worst things ever to happen to music, from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (#50) to Suge Knight (#2)…I won’t spoil #1.
Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other
Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places In The United States: 1790 to 1990. Even in 1800, New York was #1…and Nantucket was #14. (via fakeisthenewreal)
The seven warning signs of bogus science. #2: “
The seven warning signs of bogus science. #2: “The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.” (via cd)
50 common job interview questions and some suggestions
50 common job interview questions and some suggestions on how to answer them. (via wa)
Just started: a list of the 10,000 reasons
Just started: a list of the 10,000 reasons civilization is doomed.
Update: Shortly after I posted this link, someone added “kottke.org” as Reason #185. (thx, connor)
Five quotes
A quick meme I found on Rivers are Damp:
Go here and look through random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.
Here are my five:
- Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. (Peter Borden)
- The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. (May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965)
- Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. (Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden)
- It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. (W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), ‘Of Human Bondage’, 1915)
- Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. (William Raspberry)
What’s the greatest software ever written? Google,
What’s the greatest software ever written? Google, Mosaic, Sabre, and the Apollo guidence system make the top 12.
The Observer lists 15 web sites that changed
The Observer lists 15 web sites that changed the world, including Google, Wikipedia, Blogger, and Amazon. (thx, dylan)
Top 50 movies (by gross) that were never
Top 50 movies (by gross) that were never in wide release in the US. Top 3: Rocky Horror, Boyz n the Hood, and Royal Tenenbaums.
Steven Johnson lists Five Things All Sane
Steven Johnson lists Five Things All Sane People Agree On About Blogs And Mainstream Journalism (So Can We Stop Talking About It Now?) Like Steven, I get frustrated with the rehashing of the same old points around this issue.
The top 50 movie endings of all time. “
The top 50 movie endings of all time. “We’re not talking about the last half hour. We mean the last minute of movie. You know, the ending.” Needless to say, spoilers. (via cyn-c)
10,000 computer-generated fake band names that sound real.
10,000 computer-generated fake band names that sound real.
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