Notes on the New Yorker’s Top One Hundred Lists of All Time

Interesting: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are #7 on The New Yorker’s Top One Hundred Lists of All Time. Perhaps missed, the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, also known as the Radiant Sutras, 112 Tantra Yoga Teachings for Opening to the Divine in Everyday Life.

Missing: List of 69,000 heat records set in the U.S. in 2012. Link also omitted from AP story and all subsequent wire coverage.

Included: the AFI’s top 100 movies. Omitted: IMDB’s & Rotten Tomatoes.

Noticed:

• Seattle’s Amanda Knox #92 on Maxim’s 2012 Hot 100
• Number of page views to read The New Yorker Top One Hundred Lists: 1, number to read the list had it appear on The Seattle Weekly: 100.
• “Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain’t restful.” – Satchel Paige’s “How to Keep Young”