Stylus Magazine’s top 50 (music) singles of 2005, including
Stylus Magazine’s top 50 (music) singles of 2005, including the top 20 lists of each of the contributors. If you can’t find something catchy to listen to here, you’ve given up. (thx, marco)
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How to make your best-of-the-year music list
How to make your best-of-the-year music list as hip as it can be. “Make sure to include an album that just came out. This will lead people to believe that you got an advanced copy months ago and had plenty of time to get into it.”
Author Jeremy Mercer picks his top 10 bookstores
Author Jeremy Mercer picks his top 10 bookstores in the world. Any personal favorites that you’d add to the list?
GameSpot has an ongoing series of articles
GameSpot has an ongoing series of articles about the greatest video games of all time. Lode Runner, Tetris, Quake, Oregon Trail, Defender, and Metroid all make the list.
The Scientific American 50, the 2005 “research, business and
The Scientific American 50, the 2005 “research, business and policy leaders of technology”. The flu, nanotech, stem cells, and climatology are among the hot topics this year.
Once again, Rex has bravely volunteered to
Once again, Rex has bravely volunteered to keep track of all the “best of” lists for 2005. Slim pickins so far, but as the lists start rolling in, this will swell to hundreds of items.
The top 40 bands in America (in 2005) according
The top 40 bands in America (in 2005) according to a small group of music bloggers. Indie rock-heavy, if you like that sort of thing. Off to check out The National.
Sports Illustrated’s photo gallery of the top 10
Sports Illustrated’s photo gallery of the top 10 point guards of all time.
List of the top 50 greatest indie films.
List of the top 50 greatest indie films. The top 10 includes Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, and The Usual Suspects.
50 (UK-centric) celebs share their top food experiences. (via rw)
50 (UK-centric) celebs share their top food experiences. (via rw)
100 notable books of 2005 from the NY Times Book Review.
100 notable books of 2005 from the NY Times Book Review.
A list of the best and worst
A list of the best and worst cookbooks to give people for Xmas (or Kwanzaa or Hanukkah or Festivus).
Fun compilation of the 100 greatest internet moments. (
Fun compilation of the 100 greatest internet moments. (via waxy!, i think)
The readers of DJ Magazine picks the
The readers of DJ Magazine picks the top 100 DJs for 2005. Top honors go to Paul van Dyk.
US News & World Report has a
US News & World Report has a list of 25 of America’s best leaders. Condoleezza Rice, Steve Jobs, Meg Whitman, Bill & Melinda Gates, etc.
Speak Up critiques the covers on the
Speak Up critiques the covers on the recently released list of the 40 best magazine covers of the last 40 years. Chock full of snarky designy goodness. (thx armin)
Select one-star reviews from Amazon of books
Select one-star reviews from Amazon of books on Time magazine’s list of the 100 best English language novels since 1923 (discussion).
Time magazine has a list of the “100
Time magazine has a list of the “100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present”. I’m not much for novels, but I’ve read 11 of the works on the list.
Best burgers in NYC
A list of excellent hamburgers to be found in NYC. For more on NYC burgers, check out A Hamburger Today. I still maintain that NYC isn’t a burger town, although with all the recent activity, it may be one soon.
Esquire jumps the gun on the whole
Esquire jumps the gun on the whole end of the year best-of lists thing and names their favorite new restaurants of 2005, with Danny Meyer’s The Modern taking the top spot. Worth reading if only for the sidebar item on “wired and tired” dining trends.
Forbes has a list of 10 chef “tastemakers”,
Forbes has a list of 10 chef “tastemakers”, including Thomas Keller, Alain Ducasse, and Grant Achatz.
Patrick Pittman makes a good case for
Patrick Pittman makes a good case for Homicide: Life on the Streets being the best TV show ever. I loved Homicide and am convinced it would have found a great audience in this age of TiVo and quick-to-DVD (it was a difficult show to catch on Friday nights). Re: best TV ever, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and M*A*S*H have to be near the top of the list…what are your favorites?
The list of the 100 greatest theorems in
The list of the 100 greatest theorems in mathematics is topped by The Irrationality of the Square Root of 2 from that nutball Pythagoras. Jesus, who does Godel have to sleep with to get higher on this list…I mean, all the man did was destroy math! (I know, I know, oversimplification, please don’t send me any email….) (via cyn-c)
You’ve got to love an article called
You’ve got to love an article called The Ten Stupidest Utopias. In regard to the Internet, he says “utopia is never more than what we are; the people in them will always be just like us”.
Top 10 cheap marketing ploys to increase sales
Top 10 cheap marketing ploys to increase sales of comic books, but as noted in the comments, a sufficiently generalized version of this list would work in many instances.
Plastic recently considered the question of perfect
Plastic recently considered the question of perfect albums, those where every song is great and you never want to skip over them. Philip compiled a list of the responses; Radiohead’s OK Computer and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue came out on top.
Art experts choose 10 of the worst paintings hanging in Britain.
Art experts choose 10 of the worst paintings hanging in Britain.
Only three inches of eyebrow hair gets
Only three inches of eyebrow hair gets you a world record? I think most of my dad’s eyebrow hair is at least that long and I could probably beat the record given a little growing time. And unibrow Josh Hartnett probably has a few long ones in that sucker as well.
Among Roger Ebert’s most hated films are
Among Roger Ebert’s most hated films are Catwoman, Baby Geniuses, Battlefield Earth, and The Usual Suspects(?!?). About North, he says: “I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie.”
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