Lists, lists, and more lists

McSweeney's Lists!

• Small Businesses Poorly Named After Classic Literature: "The Sun Also Rises Tanning Salon."
• Alternatives, Should You Not Like Piña Coladas and Getting Caught in the Rain: "Red wine and bitterly fighting with depression."
• Some of Dan Brown's Works in Progress: "The Security Code: Jesus breaks into some houses; takes nothing, leaves love and understanding."
• Strange Compliments I've Received Because I'm Not Very Attractive: "The whites of your eyes are really white."
• Lost Causes: "Sea monkeys."

Merlin Mann, of 43 Folders fame, also does a nice line in lists over at his site 5ives. Here's a selection of recent hilarious posts:

• Five things I’ll bet can be hard for pirates: "finding one-legged pants that won’t make your hips look too broad."
• Five markings I think I’d enjoy having on my grave: "Largely Tolerated by Friends."
• Five injustices you bravely suffer: "fucking Eggers never responded to your email."
• (For Sandro) Five things, besides lying, that Shakira’s hips don’t do: "long division."
• Five terrible fake Spears family parenting lapses: "Kevin repeatedly leaves baby in ashtray at check cashing store."