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

Has it really been a month? More selected numbers, this time from the latest two sets of Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

• The eyes have it: Peacocks in art – 704.943286258
• Vicar of Dibleyest number: Clergy on television – 791.456827
• 100,00 BC: Prehistoric peoples on television – 791.45658
• “But she hates James Blunt already”: Musical perception in infants – 155.422215
• Don’t go there: Sin City (Imaginary place) – 741.5973
• We’re turning Chinese, I really think so: Sinicization – 303.48251
• The fraud that got away was this big: Phishing – 005.8
• Beam me up, Scotty: Quantum teleportation – 530.12
• Fairly long number: Sephardim in literature – 809.933529924046
• Very long number: Quetzalcoatl in literature – 808.80382997845202113

These large numbers are, however, dwarfed by this monstrosity from the Canadian subject mapping for works about a four-and-a-half month strike at the Versatile tractor plant in Winnipeg:

Buhler Versatile Inc. Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 2000-2001 – 331.892829225209712743090511

Wow. It’s certainly the longest I’ve ever seen. And they say size isn’t everything.

I see they’ve picked this one out at Dewey Towers too.

It’s that time again, so buckle in: selected numbers from the latest Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

• Longest number: King Bladud (Legendary character) – 398.20936239802
• As close to being about the leadership election as I could get: Neoliberalism – 320.51
• But MPs’ private lives are private: Condom use – 613.9435
• Number closest to ITV1’s Saturday night line-up: Figure skaters – 796.912092
• And “spree” is such a nice-sounding word: Spree murderers – 364.1523092
• But the rat came back the very next day, the rat came back, they thought he was a goner but the rat came back, he just wouldn’t stay away: Rodenticide resistance – 632.951
• Most unexpected number: Surprise birthday parties – 793.2
• Whatever Happened to Scabies Pain?: Diseases in motion pictures – 791.436561
• Most vocabulary-expanding number: Rhombencephalon – 573.86
• Most poetic number and most South American: Ecuadorian Haiku – 861.041089866
• Number I’ve been to most often: King’s Cross Station (London, England) – 385.3140942142
• Watch out – books!: Libraries–Risk management – 025.11
• Go out with a bang: Pyrotechnists – 662.1092

More bad “diseases in motion pictures” puns are, of course, welcomed.

As the theme tune to Enterprise (spit) says, it’s been a long time. But now, my friends, it returns: the best bits from the latest Dewey Decimal subject mappings.

• Longest number: Segedunum Roman Fort Site (Wallsend, England) – 623.19362879
• Geekiest number: Reverse mathematics – 511.3
• What the Tories do want/don’t want/who knows for the public services – Creative destruction 338.9
• Down with the kids: Electric guitar music (Rock) – 787.87166
• Most OCD number: Compulsive washing – 616.85227
• Huh? number: Grammar, Comparative and general–Clusivity – 415
• For men of a certain taste: Women scientists in motion pictures – 791.4366