PopTech:

Staff picks: The PopTech team’s 2nd annual holiday reading list

This is some brilliant image sourcing if you ask me.

I’m also a fan of 15. Learn people better.

nomadfarm:

Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Rulins

My favorites include:

3. Wash teeth if any

17. Don’t get Lonesome

33. Wake up and fight

Home stretch.

A letter to Charles Green Shaw from H.L. Mencken, in list form. I especially like #3:

My favorite drinks, in order, are: beer in any form, Moselle, Bergundy, Chianti, gin and ginger-beer, and rye whiskey. I use Swedish punch only as a cocktail flavor. I dislike Scotch and seldom drink it. It makes me vaguely uneasy. I also dislike Rhine wine, save the very best. I never have a head-ache from drink. It fetches me by giving me pains of the legs. When I get stewed I go to sleep, even in the presence of womeen and clergymen.

From archivist Liza Kirwin’s Lists. More lists from Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Pablo Picasso, and Eero Saarinen at The Morning News.

Upcoming palindromic dates you should be aware of

Monday, January 11th, 2010 (01.11.10)
Not only is this one a palindrome, it’s also binary code for the number 30 (or 1e in hexadecimal). Perhaps an optimal date for another robot protest?

Friday, January 22nd (01.22.10)
International “count to two starting from zero, then count backwards” day.

I seem to be partial to dolphins lately

A list of dolphin-related things I have enjoyed in recent weeks:

1. Pirate-thwarting dolphins
2. Deb Olin Unferth’s Vacation (In which dolphins are rescued)
3. Dolphins in the air
4. Beached dolphins (well, I wouldn’t say I enjoyed this — but apparently I found it interesting enough to post here)
5. A confessed love for Tim Buckley’s “Dolphins”
6. Pink dolphins

What’s up with all the dolphins? Maybe I’m channeling Lisa Frank. I hope not.

Looking forward

1. Tennis shoes, white socks, fancy socks, flip-flops, bare feet, sandy feet, wet feet, green feet.
2. The impossibility of vegetarianism via cookouts, cookouts, glorious cookouts.
3. Patios. Everywhere. Even in your sleep.
4. Ice cream on your nose.
5. No hat, no gloves, no scarf, NO JACKET. (Freedom)
6. Two legs, two arms, two wheels.
7. Open windows, cross-breezes.
8. Grass.