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Kevin Smith’s iTunes Celebrity Playlist got rejected by Apple because his comments were too long. “This is a great playlist. Too great, actually. We don’t have the space for comments that run that long.”
The best and worst restaurant trends in NYC for 2006. Among the worst, Mexican: “Zero progress on one of the most misunderstood and untapped cuisines in NYC.”
The NY Times Book Review’s 100 notable books of 2006. Making the list are several kottke.org notable books: The Ghost Map, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Consider the Lobster, and The Blind Side.
Historical rankings of US presidents. Honest Abe is number one with a…well, he’s just #1. George W. Bush comes in at a respectable 22nd, just behind Bill Clinton. (via fakeisthenewreal)
Discover magazine picks the 25 greatest science books of all time. Darwin, Newton, and Galileo top the list.
Donella Meadows came up with a list of 12 leverage points, places in complex systems (like cities, companies, environments, etc.) where making small changes can result in big shifts. The Wikipedia page contains a summary of her points. Aside from the obvious usage in city planning and environmental policymaking, I wonder if game designers (like Will Wright) have utilized Meadows’ list in constructing their virutal complex systems. (via migurski)
Are you ready? I said, ARE YOU READY? End-of-the-year list season has begun!! Woo! Let’s get it started with Information Leafblower’s list of the top 40 bands in America as chosen by a bunch of music bloggers. Lots of guitar music that the indie rock kids like so much.
List of fictional diseases. See also: an exensive list of fictional things.
The NY Times asks a bunch of comedians: Which five comedies would you want to take with you if you were stranded alone on a desert island? My list: Dr. Strangelove, Zoolander, Office Space, Election, and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
Five great fight scenes from movies. I’m not a connoisseur of movie fight scenes, so I don’t have much to add to this list, but I’m glad Jackie Chan made the cut.
A list of faux pas from different cultures around the world. “In German business dealings, scooting your chair closer to the host is considered an insult.”
How the fizzle did I miss this? Mountain Man Dance Moves is a compilation of some of the best McSweeney’s Lists.
How to be interesting. “The way to be interesting is to be interested” and “interesting people are good at sharing”. (via spurgeonblog)
Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a singularly talented photographer.
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.
Alphabetical lists of jobs that Homer Simpson has held. (via cyn-c)
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 more. “I haven’t had the internet and I have been drunk or busy alot.”
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 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 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 out in street, see news, write it up.”
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 stuff like Beethoven’s 5th, Pomp and Circumstance, and Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
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 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)
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