sunday short stack

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way." - Henry David Thoreau

• Is melancholy being annihiliated?
• Maybe it's because you donated your "detritus of soured love" to the Museum of Broken Relationships. (Read more at 3qd via MetaFilter.)
• Someone has translated William Carlos Williams' poem "This Is Just to Say" (I'm the jerk who ate your plums) into lolspeak..."O Hai Just FYI" (via KR Blog)
• The riddle of tick marks vs. quotation marks solved! (via John Hodgman)
• Treat yourself to the sex faces of the men of the Australian Open.
• At the opposite end of the face spectrum, what kind of bad livin' do you have to do to end up with a nose like that? (You know, aside from the forgetting about the corpse kind of livin'...)
• The National Book Foundation has a new blog on the future of literary reading.
• Even more exciting, the Library of Congress has a Flickr page.
  
• The ABCs of New York made me extra eager for summer.