- Roy Peter Clark teaches you about the serial comma. Read it and learn, friends and scribes.
- It annoys me that I have missed the Newport Folk Festival four years in a row. I’m going next year, damnit! Stereogum has pictures.
- Best iPhone app: I am rich. It costs $999.99, and doesn’t do anything but display a glowing red ruby. Genius.
- Today’s horrifyingly stupid product: Eyelid jewelery! Yes folks, now you too can dangle miscellaneous things from your contact lenses.
- Hey hipsters: How about this for vintage? A pair of Levi’s from the 1890s.
- Skip business school and earn the “personal MBA” by reading the books on Josh Kaufman’s 77 best list. Sweet. Seems I’m already on that track. Oh wait, Pitchfork’s News and Iris Murdoch aren’t on Kaufman’s list?
- Horrifying chart showing how much Americans have changed the daily diet since 1970. [NYT via kottke]
- Cool music video from Bat for Lashes [thanks, mikefro]
- Perfect performance of Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes, if you can stand Letterman’s terrible introduction:
