Booky Meme-y

"What we have here is the top 100 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend; add another for each time you've re-read the book. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place." ( Cut for listy silliness. )

For the record, Dofstoyesky can be summarized by making a sock puppet of your hand and making it talk without words for three days. Most folks say the same thing about Melville, but they're wrong, wrong, wrong.

The History of Oil

Robert Newman explains the historical politics behind oil. It's long but very informative. And funny. I've mentioned some of the points he makes before, but lots of his information is new to me.

Enjoy.