A list of lists

2024-06-10 ✢ lists ✢ links

Short post for you all today.

1. Notes on Lancelot (T.H. White)
2. Fifteen Questions and Ten Principles (Dieter Rams)
3. 128 Things about the City (Edwin Heathcote)
4. What Every Kid Should Be Able to Do by Age Sixteen (Audrey Sutherland)
5. The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowlege (Borges)
6. The Catalogue of Ships (Homer)
7. 250 Things an Architect Should Know (Michael Sorkin)
8. Reading lists. Bibliographies and syllabi in general
9. Joan Didion’s packing list
10. Vignelli’s six typefaces (Massimo Vignelli)
11. 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing (Captain Beefheart)
12. Wardrobe lists — surprisingly good insight into peoples’ personality. There’s a relevant difference between people who will and won’t wear black jeans
13. The 86 Rules of Boozing
14. List of games with concealed rules
15. Great Movies (Roger Ebert)
16. Checklists
17. Six rules for eating wisely (Michael Pollan)
18. List of inventors killed by their own invention
19. New Years’ Resolutions (E.M. Forster)
20. Bid Dave’s Rules for the Internet
21. How to Live Like a King for Very Litte (Thor Harris)
22. Tips for Musicians (Thelonious Monk)
23. Reasons to be Cheerful, pt. 3 (Ian Dury)