http://www.metafilter.com/tags/cheeseproblems Posts tagged with 'cheeseproblems' at MetaFilter. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:59 -0800 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69300/Books%2DOprah%2DWants%2Dto%2DClub It's time again for the greatest literary competition this side of Bulwer-Lytton: <a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/news/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-shortlist-announced.html">The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book Title</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/59301/Those-Incredibly-Strange-Book-Titles-Who-Started-Publishing-And-Became-MixedUp-Award-Winners">previously</a>), and YOU can vote <a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/">here</a> for your favorite from 'the shortlist':<br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1934625132/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen</a> (scroll down to see the author's blog)<br> <a href="http://www.brianpiddock.co.uk/home.htm">How to Write a How to Write Book</a> (<a href="http://www.brianpiddock.co.uk/books.htm">other books</a> by the author, mostly unavailable)<br> <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/MACARE.html">Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues</a> (written by a woman)<br> <a href="http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1220">Cheese Problems Solved</a> (ONLY &#0163;135.00)<br> <a href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=534221">If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs</a> (with extra points for the author's name: Big Boom)<br> and <a href="http://www.ian-henry.com/essex/53.htm">People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood</a> (this might be declared ineligible since the publisher's cover picture shows a shortened title) The books that, sadly, missed the cut: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764138138/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Drawing and Painting the Undead</a><br><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stafford-Pageant-Exciting-Innovative-Years/dp/0955784506/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203696513&sr=1-5">Stafford Pageant: The Exciting Innovative Years 1901–1952</a><br><a href="http://www.ribabookshops.com/site/viewtitle.asp?sid=&pid=8377&HID=1115">Tiles of the Unexpected: A Study of Six Miles of Geometric Tile Patterns on the London Underground</a>(my personal choice)<br><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Squid-Recruitment-Dynamics-Commercial-Variability/dp/9251041598">Squid Recruitment Dynamics</a> (also available as a <a href="ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/w9000e/w9000e00.pdf">FREE pdf</a>)<br>and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295971517/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Glory Remembered: Wooden Headgear of Alaska Sea Hunters</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69300 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:13:59 -0800 arewomenhuman books bookseller cheeseproblems diagramprize howtowritebook oddesttitles pygmylovequeen relationshiplegclosure titles whomatteredinsouthend wendell