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List of easily mispronouncable domain names. I’ve always beeen partial to WhoRepresents.com (or whorepresents.com).
The IHT compiles a list of the best and worst moments and memories from the 2006 World Cup.
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.
List of the 10 most beautiful OS X apps. Newsfire is a well-deserved second.
Summer reading list of photography books. It’s not on the list, but I picked up New Yorkers: As Seen by Magnum Photographers at a friend’s house this weekend and found it well worth my time. (via rb)
Boatloads of trailers for “historically significant films”. (via cyn-c)
The 10 greatest years in gaming. I’ll always be partial to 1986.
ESPN writer Bill Simmons lists his YouTube Hall of Fame videos.
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)
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”
Classic movies it’s ok to hate. I love the idea of this list but I’m not sure I agree with too many of the items on it…although I’m not sure which movies would be on my 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.
The AFI’s list of the 100 most inspiring films of all time. Top 5: It’s a Wonderful Life, To Kill a Mockingbird, Schindler’s List, Rocky, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Coudal has a look at what people have read where they’ve read it with Field-Tested Books. Participants include George Saunders, David Rees, and Rosecrans Baldwin.
A list of 20 things everyone needs to know how to do, written by experts in their prospective fields: how to iron a shirt, how to hit a tennis ball, how to listen (“I never learned anything when I was talking”), and how to sleep.
Update: This has disappeared behind the Independent’s paywall. Sorry. But the tips were all taken from this book, The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do. (thx, brian and joe)
Update: Here’s a mirror of the original full-text article. (via get rich slowly)
An extensive listing of all the promotional merchandise from Pixar/Disney’s Cars. Over 70 licensees will be offering themed merchandise like toy cars, cross stitch kits, books, staplers, shower curtains, sippy cups, and a boatload of Kellogg’s cereals. Holy overload.
List of lines from Shakespeare plays that have become cliches.
A list of the 100 best corporate citizens for 2006 from Business Ethics Magazine. Nike is at #13, Whole Foods at #47. (via rp)
A chronological list of the largest cities through history. The five most recent cities and when they became the largest: Constantinople (1650), Beijing (1710), London (1825), New York (1925), and Tokyo (1965). The first city over 1 million was Baghdad.
The worst band names (along with the best worst band names) of 2006 (so far). Mariospeedwagon!
Short list of hot dog places in NYC. What, no Crif Dogs? That’s unpossible.
Re: Jim Emerson’s list of films you should see to consider yourself movie literate, what are the essential gay/queer movies?
Playboy lists the 25 sexiest novels ever written. I’ve read only 2 of the 25: Lolita and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Probably a little NSFW.
A list of the 100 most influential persons in the world and what religion each practiced. The list should more properly be called the 100 most influential men in the world + Queens Elizabeth I and Isabella I. (via rb)
List of sounds that different animals make in different languages.
Update: Bzzzpeek and Sounds of the World’s Animals both let you listen to how these different animal sounds are pronounced. (thx finn, lizette, and justine)
What Is the best work of American fiction of the last 25 years? Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In a companion piece, A.O. Scott writes: “I was surprised at how few of the highly praised, boldly ambitious books by younger writers - by which I mean writers under 50 - were mentioned. One vote each for ‘The Corrections’ and ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,’ none for ‘Infinite Jest’ or ‘The Fortress of Solitude,’ a single vote for Richard Powers, none for William T. Vollmann, and so on.” (via, sps)
List of 10 character actors that should be in every movie.
New York magazine does its version of the power issue for NYC: The Influentials, “the people whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York”. No offense to anyone who made the list, but NYC is unsurprisingly light on technology.
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