Links: The Underbelly Edition

This weekend I'm finally off to do battle with my bicycle, armed with a wire brush and a can of WD-40. I'm drawing up battle plans, rolling out the maps. Or spreading out the newspapers, rather. While I scratch the rusty underbelly of my future sweet ride, you should enjoy the following web manna.

• David Mitchell makes Time Magazine's list of 100 men and women who "shape our world". A world shaped like David Mitchell? Let's go roll in the grass. (via Ed)


• An old link lurking in my to-be-written-about file: What's on your shelves? Mine is bared (born? barren?) for all to see in the right-hand column of this page, but it only lists the ones I've read and kept. What you won't see there - apart from the stacks upon endless stacks of books I'm waiting to read - is my oversized collection of 1970s teen fiction with titles like I Can Stop Anytime I Want and Angel Dust Blues, as well as the SAS Survival Guide I keep stowed away in my bedside table. Draw your own conclusions.


• 3hive is hosting a Charlotte Gainsbourg mp3 from her new album. It's lovely... and like a child dancing on the shoes of her father, oh so "Bonnie and Clyde." (A compliment, I swear.)


• Another reason I could never become a farmer: Why I Shot My Lamb.

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