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DDC highlights (7) May 31

My goodness, has it been over two months? You must be chomping at the bit for more Dewey Decimal updates. A bumper selection is only fair recompense. These numbers come from various sets of subject mappings.

  • “Ample size” says the estate agent: Advertising–Dollhouses – 659.197455923
  • For Peter Jackson: King Kong films – 791.4375
  • For Dario Argento: Blood in motion pictures – 791.436561
  • For Peter Jackson: Hobbits (Fictitious characters)/Baggins, Bilbo (Fictitious character) – 791.4375
  • For sheer unrealism: Scientists in motion pictures – 791.4366
  • For John Boorman: Banjo music (Bluegrass) – 787.881642
  • For the sake of it: Accountants in motion pictures – 791.43656
  • The Line of Beautyest number: Gay bathhouses – 306.77086642
  • What you get reading this blog: Excited delirium syndrome – 616.8
  • Making offensive crop circles: Agroterrorism – 363.3259632
  • Good way to get singed: Fire twirling – 791.6
  • They teach on the catwalk: Stochastic models – 003.76
  • I think this is me: Generation Y – 305.2
  • In the news: Roadside memorials – 363.125
  • Most self-referential number: Dewey (Fictitious character: Disney) – 741.5973
  • Most confused number: Internalized homophobia in lesbians – 306.7663
  • Erm, sheds made of netting?: Net sheds – 639.2
  • You should’ve seen the one that got away: Nymph fishing – 799.124
  • Not Melvyn’s style but important physicsy stuff: Bragg gratings – 621.38275
  • No, not the probe!: Human-alien encounters in literature – 808.8037
  • For counting oysters: Oyster surveys – 333.9554111
  • X-Men 3est number: Phoenix (Mythical bird) in art – 704.947
  • Longish number: Rose Bowl Stadium (Pasadena, Calif.) – 796.33206879493
  • Another longish number: Gay youths’ writings – 808.89928308664
  • An even longer number: Liquid crystal display industry – 338.476213815422
  • A very long number: London Terrorist Bombings, London,
    England, 2005 – 363.3259388409421209051
  • A very, very long number: Fire Fighters’ Dispute, Great Britain, 2002-2004 – 331.89281363370941090511

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