1. Exactly what it says: 251 words you can spell with a calculator. (Bilge! Geologies! Illegible!)
2. Cool breakdown/data visualization of how Rolling Stone‘s “Top 100 Album” lists have changed over time/with different voters.
3. In defense of mindless entertainment after dinner, from Donald Hall:
“Try to forgive my comparisons, but before Yeats went to sleep every night he read an American Western. When Eliot was done with poetry and editing, he read a mystery book. Everyone who concentrates all day, in the evening needs to let the half-wit out for a walk. Sometimes it is Zane Grey, sometimes Agatha Christie, sometimes the Red Sox.”