Happy Birthday Samuel Johnson!

I'll just list a few of the many commemorations in honor of the 300th anniversary of the author of The Dictionary of the English Language:

"Samuel Johnson and the Virtue of Capitalism," in the Wall Street Journal

http://tinyurl.com/ngfeml

"A Birthday Card for Dr. Johnson" and the synonymy of "drudge," in the Visual Thesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?word=drudge

"The Powers of Dr. Johnson" in The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23111

"The Book that Influenced All Others," in BBC Magazine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8255720.stm

"Samuel Johnson on the Quest for Happiness," again in The Wall Street Journal

http://tinyurl.com/puy7h7
"A Man of Letters," in The Telegraph (Calcutta)

http://tinyurl.com/mjhcds