1.) Commenting on my post about bourbon, James has compiled an excellent list of his own. You should check it out.

2.) Well well well…that Federer post sure kicked up a firestorm, didn’t it? It’s an interesting thing about the blogosphere: nuance gets you nowhere, bold predictions/statements, meanwhile, produce beaucoup traffic. And if a bold statement is couched in a nuanced post, the only part anyone pays attention to is the bold statement.

For the record: I don’t think Federer will never win another major. I think he’ll probably average a major a year for the next four or five. I think he will break Sampras’s record. I think he will go down as the greatest player of all time, certainly one of the top two or three.

All I was saying in that post is that his era of dominance is at an end. It was a good run, but it’s probably over. The other thing I was saying is that in the open era there have been three periods of such dominance: Borg’s, Sampras’s, and Federer’s. And it’s interesting that they all ended at the age of 26.