Wallowing in the seriously comprehensive art and design bookstores of Sydney J. G Ballard’s 1964 collection Terminal Beach, just for the story “The Drowned Giant” Buying DRM-free Amazon MP3s; part of the satisfaction is watching iTunes sweating John Crowley’s reading list of human cultures far weirder than fiction Clive James’s poetry, particularly “The Pilgrimage of Peregrine Prykke”, and “The Book of My Enemy has Been Remaindered” Re-reading Code of the Woosters and rediscovering its small and cheerful perfection The beautiful plating of the ratatouille in the movie of the same name, for which I gather we must thank Thomas Keller If you have so many fonts they’re effectively incomprehensible and unusable, and start using proper font management software like FontAgent Pro with auto-activation, the scales are lifted from your eyes and you feel ten feet tall Getting a Christmas kete from your bosses of yummy local and organic treats, including home-made hummus Buses that don’t just say SORRY, but alternate by flashing NOT ON SERVICE (Christchurch) or NOT IN SERVICE (Auckland)—Mike Bradstock drew my attention to this prepositional shift with latitude. John Scalzi’s photo-essay of his visit to the Creation Museum in Kentucky