If you have HBO and you’ve never seen the excellent movie Taking Chance, do yourself a favor and spend 77 minutes today to watch one of several showings HBO has scheduled.

Visual Economics is a fascinating site, the core of which are the financial infographics that take complex issues and boil them down to their dollars-and-sense essentials. Here’s one on the cost and effects of the BP oil spill — which has only gotten far, far worse since the infographic was posted on May 5.

Back in 2004, Rolling Stone put out their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time (that’s the cover of the issue up there).  The issue out on the stands now updates that list, which you can see over here.

Springsteen deserves more than four songs on the list, and I’d rank “Thunder Road” above “Born To Run,” and thank God Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back In Town” dropped off the list, and “Highway 61 Revisited” ought to be higher than 373 (how on earth was that left off of the Dylan collection?!) , and it’s ridiculous when Warren Zevon, The Grateful Dead, Graham Parker and Southside Johnny (among so many others) aren’t represented at all while ABBA, Chic and Justin Timberlake are, and lists like these are really just gimmicks to sell magazines anyway, which is fine.

I’m gonna try and put all 500 into a unique playlist on my iPod. I’m guessing I have about 400 of them there already, and it’ll make a good collection for shuffle-listening at the gym. This ought to keep me busy over the holiday weekend; it beats cleaning out the garage.

“We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
—Will Rogers

Because you never know when you might need a McRib, there’s the McRib locator.