100 hot women chosen by lesbians

Hot 100 women chosen by lesbians. A nice counterpoint to similar lists from Maxim and People.

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The 2007 MacTech 25 “honors the most influential people in the Macintosh community”. Includes a single woman.

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Top 20 plays of the 2007 NBA playoffs (so far). It’s a good list but YouTube sucks for watching sports highlights…the quality is just too low. (via truehoop)

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Tiger Woods tops this year’s list of top-earning American athletes. He makes $111M a year, more than twice as much as the fellow in second place. A list of the top-earning non-American athletes is available as well. (via cyn-c)

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From a poll in the Guardian: George Orwell’s 1984 is the definitive book of the 20th century. Gatsby, Grapes, and Brave New World also make the top 10 list.

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Some prominent writers (Eggers, Foer, Nicole Krauss) tell us about what they’ve been reading recently. In other summer reading news, Rebecca Blood is keeping track of various summer book lists that are popping up around the web.

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Another one of those lists you love to hate: the 25 best movies you’ve never seen. Putting the horrible Boondock Saints on the list is a major boner, especially just ahead of Peter Jackson’s pre-Rings gem Heavenly Creatures.

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Popular names for twins born in 2006. Almost all of the top name pairs start with the same letter: Jacob/Joshua, Landon/Logan, Ella/Emma, and the stunningly confusing Taylor/Tyler.

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A list of film’s most impressive and famous long takes, including those from Boogie Nights, Touch of Evil, Children of Men, and The Player. Featuring the now-standard YouTube clips of each long take.

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Technology Review asked several designers to name their favorite technology products. Worth a look for the photos of pristine Sony Walkmans, Ataris, and Polaroid cameras.

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If you’re writing a song, you probably don’t want to use any of the following phrases: “serious as cancer”, “Serengeti”, “nuclear war”, or “Aztec priest”.

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The top-ten 8-bit games. Can’t argue with the top 5 too much, but the other selections might be a bit off. Whither Metroid? And Tetris?

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HotelChatter lists their picks for hotels with the best Wifi experiences. (via bb)

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List of the seven most overrated Hollywood actors, including Ben Kingsley, Kate Hudson, and Ben Stiller, a personal unfavorite of mine. (via house next door)

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In addition to a just-launched redesign, outside.

In addition to a just-launched redesign, outside.in took a look at their data for the past six months and came up with a list of the “bloggiest neightborhoods” in the US. “The results below are based on a number of variables: total number of posts, total number of local bloggers, number of comments and Technorati ranking for the bloggers.” Interestingly (but upon reflection, not surprisingly), most of the places listed are in the process of gentrifying. Disclosure: I am an advisor to outside.in.

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Finalists in Smithsonian magazine’s 2007 photo contest. Some good stuff in here, but some of it is a little cheesy.

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Results of the Type Directors Club type design competition for 2007. I really like Subtil. (via quipsologies)

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A photo of a Jewish settler seemingly fighting about 50 soldiers by herself won a prize in the 2007 World Press Photo contest.

Update: In an earlier iteration of this post, I incorrectly identified the woman in the photo as a Palestinian…she is a Jewish settler. (thx to everyone who wrote in)

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An unusually informative top 10 list: the most magnificent trees in the world. The Quaking Aspen organism and the baobab trees are awesome.

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The top 1000 books owned by libraries around the world. Surprisingly, no Stephen King book appears in the top 1000 but John Grisham appears 13 times. In an interesting use of del.icio.us, the entire list is tagged and categorized on the bookmarking site.

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A group of people who are interested in preserving video games as culturally and historically important artifacts has chosen their list of the top 10 most important video games of all time: Spacewar!, Star Raiders, Zork, Tetris, SimCity, Super Mario Bros. 3, Civilization I/II, Doom, Warcraft series and Sensible World of Soccer. Sensible World of Soccer?

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The top 11 underground transit systems in the world. The London Tube is #1, NYC is #7, Hong Kong is #10. (via rob)

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The 51 (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most influential, most necessary, most important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever.

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Kevin Smith’s top 10 films of 2006.

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Top 10 most litigious US companies from 2001-2006 (

Top 10 most litigious US companies from 2001-2006 (based on trademark cases): 1. Microsoft. 2. Cendent. 3. Altria/Philip Morris. 4. Best Western. 5. Dunkin’ Donuts. 6. Lorillard Tobacco. 7. Levi Strauss. 8. Baskin-Robbins. 9. Chanel. 10. Nike. Found in the sidebar of this article on Levi Strauss suing other jeans companies for their triangle pockets.

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A list of 16 genuinely good Oscar-winning songs. As noted in the comments, Lose Yourself by Eminem should have been included.

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Two structural engineers pick their ten favorite man-made structures.

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If Roger Federer keeps going the way he’s going, he could one day be considered the greatest sportsman in history.

Update: Via email, a nomination for Pakistani squash player Jahangir Khan, who engineered a 5+ year unbeaten streak during which he won the International Squash Players Association Championship without losing a single point. (thx, abbas)

Update: Also via email, a vote for darts champion Phil Taylor, who has won 13 world titles, including 11 out of the last 13. (thx, krush)

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The top 100 fonts as determined by a panel of designers and type experts. Top 10: Helvetica, Garamond, Frutiger, Bodoni, Futura, Times, Akzidenz Grotesk, Officina, Gill Sans, and Univers. A PDF of the results (with photos, in German) is also available. (via type for you)

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Ticklebooth has tracked down online clips of three (and 1/2) of the short films nominated for an Oscar this year.

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