A list of the 13 scariest people in America.

A list of the 13 scariest people in America.

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A list of 20 works of art you

A list of 20 works of art you need to see before you die. They want to make a list of 50…suggest your favorites in the comments.

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The Royal Institution of London has named

The Royal Institution of London has named Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table the best science book ever written. Other authors in the running: Oliver Sacks, Steven Pinker, and Richard Dawkins.

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Five great movie monologues. #1 is Merkin Muffley

Five great movie monologues. #1 is Merkin Muffley talking to Dmitri on the phone in Dr. Strangelove…one of my favorite scenes of any movie ever.

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List of the 7 worst fonts. What, no

List of the 7 worst fonts. What, no Hobo or Brush Script? Comic Sans is, of course, #1 with a bullet. (via wider angle)

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Top 100 most popular classical music pieces, featuring

Top 100 most popular classical music pieces, featuring stuff like Beethoven’s 5th, Pomp and Circumstance, and Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

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Surprisingly good list of the top 10 Web 2.0

Surprisingly good list of the top 10 Web 2.0 losers. It’s too early to pass judgement on Netscape (the site has shot to the top of Google search results for current events keywords because of the site’s high PageRank) and SixApart’s inclusion is wrong. The top four spots are right on; the Odeo situation is sad (I thought they were really onto something), but Flock, Edgeio, and Squidoo seemed not quite equal to the hype right from the beginning.

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The 100 best skateboarding photos on Flickr.

The 100 best skateboarding photos on Flickr.

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Popular Science picks their annual Brilliant 10, a

Popular Science picks their annual Brilliant 10, a group of young gun scientists who are just starting to do great work.

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Stylus magazine has a list of their

Stylus magazine has a list of their top 100 favorite videos, complete with embedded YouTube clips of the videos themselves for your instant gratification. Ok, now let’s fight about what was excluded and how wrong that is… (via paul)

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Megnut’s got the scoop: Gourmet magazine has

Megnut’s got the scoop: Gourmet magazine has named Alinea the best restaurant in the US, amazing considering its only been open a little more than a year. “[Grant Achatz] is redefining the American restaurant once again for an entirely new generation. And that — more than his gorgeous, inventive, and delicious food — is what makes Alinea the got-to-go-to restaurant in the country right now.” (I would argue that the food is the real reason to go, but whatever…)

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A list of the 50 worst things ever

A list of the 50 worst things ever to happen to music, from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (#50) to Suge Knight (#2)…I won’t spoil #1.

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Film critic Jim Emerson is collecting great

Film critic Jim Emerson is collecting great opening shots from movies, including Star Wars, Primer, and Annie Hall. Do you have any favorites that Emerson hasn’t covered yet?

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Just started: a list of the 10,000 reasons

Just started: a list of the 10,000 reasons civilization is doomed.

Update: Shortly after I posted this link, someone added “kottke.org” as Reason #185. (thx, connor)

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What’s the greatest software ever written? Google,

What’s the greatest software ever written? Google, Mosaic, Sabre, and the Apollo guidence system make the top 12.

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This Wikipedia article is keeping track of

This Wikipedia article is keeping track of the largest photographs in the world. Currently, that record is held by a group who turned a jet hanger into a giant camera, producing a single-shot image 32 feet high and 111 feet wide. See also Ian Albert’s collection of colossal images.

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The Observer lists 15 web sites that changed

The Observer lists 15 web sites that changed the world, including Google, Wikipedia, Blogger, and Amazon. (thx, dylan)

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Top 50 movies (by gross) that were never

Top 50 movies (by gross) that were never in wide release in the US. Top 3: Rocky Horror, Boyz n the Hood, and Royal Tenenbaums.

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The top 50 movie endings of all time. “

The top 50 movie endings of all time. “We’re not talking about the last half hour. We mean the last minute of movie. You know, the ending.” Needless to say, spoilers. (via cyn-c)

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Sexiest movie sex scenes

A list of the top 14 sexiest sex scenes from movies.

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List of easily mispronouncable domain names. I’ve

List of easily mispronouncable domain names. I’ve always beeen partial to WhoRepresents.com (or whorepresents.com).

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The IHT compiles a list of the

The IHT compiles a list of the best and worst moments and memories from the 2006 World Cup.

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Zidane won the Golden Ball award, awarded

Zidane won the Golden Ball award, awarded by journalists to the best player of the tournament. Most of the voting for the award came before halftime of the final. Miroslav Klose’s five goals gave him the Golden Boot as the tournament’s top scorer.

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List of the top 5 most popular blogs

List of the top 5 most popular blogs written by scientists. Here’s the top 50 and a list of popular science blogs written by non-scientists. What’s clear is that the blog reading public doesn’t care that much for science…more people probably read Engadget than all of the top 50 science blogs combined.

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List of the 10 most beautiful OS X

List of the 10 most beautiful OS X apps. Newsfire is a well-deserved second.

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The 10 greatest years in gaming. I’ll always be partial to 1986.

The 10 greatest years in gaming. I’ll always be partial to 1986.

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ESPN writer Bill Simmons lists his YouTube

ESPN writer Bill Simmons lists his YouTube Hall of Fame videos.

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New York City named the most courteous

New York City named the most courteous city in the world. Since I’ve lived here, I’ve noticed that New Yorkers aren’t rude, they’re just busy and dislike having their time wasted. (via mr)

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List of the 25 most popular nouns (by

List of the 25 most popular nouns (by usage) according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: “time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem, fact”

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The Chicago Tribune has published their list

The Chicago Tribune has published their list of the 50 best magazines of 2006. Top fiving it for you: The Economist, Dwell, Wired, The New Yorker, and ESPN the Magazine.

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• The New Yorker
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