Links for 2010-01-29

Just in case you were planning to get something done today.

“Somewhere Holden Caulfield is pretending he doesn’t care.”

“For the last little while I’ve been compiling lists from various media sources giving their choices for the best books of 2009. Some of the lists have been from general media sources, in which case I’ve just extracted the science-related books. From science publications, I’ve included most or all of the mentioned titles.

What I’m doing in this post is collating all the books I’ve mentioned in all those lists and compiling a sort of master list of all the books mentioned three or more times. There were twelve of them and they are listed below.”

“Ray Cashman, Associate Professor in the Department of English, is the recent recipient of the 2009 Chicago Folklore Prize. The prize, bestowed annually upon the author(s) of “the best scholarly monograph in folklore,” was awarded to Cashman for Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border (Indiana University Press, 2008). ” — Ray’s a college classmate of mine, someone with whom I had many beers on several occasions. Or several beers on many occasions. Whichever. Anyway, congratulations, Ray!