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The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them)
Duck Hunt by Wes Anderson and Second Life by David Lynch may be my two favorites.
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"So to make things easier for you, here I present my top 50 graphic design blogs. I’ve categorised these blogs by their Google PageRank (PR), which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a website / blog."
NxE's Fifty Most Influential Bloggers at Weekly Articles About Blogging
"These are the movers and shakers. When they speak, the blogging world listens. These are our Fifty Most Influential Bloggers, and if you don't know them, you need to."
"There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process."
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16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
"From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful."
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Chris Anderson: "A while ago US News asked me for the five business books that had the greatest impact on me. Now they've published my list, along with the lists of other executives and notables."
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Typeface
"Why choose a particular typeface? Here are thirteen reasons."
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The Greatest Innovations of All Time
"Our focus should be on platforms: broad capabilities that have the potential to cut across industries, markets, and applications. Platforms often have some proprietary capability at the core, but not always."
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Mildly Disturbing Greeting-Card Messages.
"Happy Easter! May the blood of Jesus, spilled for you, splatter your holiday with warm crimson cheer."
As compiled by Communication Arts.
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Seven Lessons Learned for Startups
"The following is a list of those quotes which were often repeated to me . . . they are the ones most significant to me and those which I believe can be generalized and applied to startup situations."
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A look at the differences between the top searches of the year on Yahoo!, AOL and Google.
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33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names
Including such gems as "SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars."
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Fimiculous.com: "Despite the odds, this was a pretty good year in music. I've got 21 albums to prove it:"
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"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
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"I have found so many easy ways to get any type of media instantly that I decided I would share this with everyone else."
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Music Is The Best, October, 2006
Ian Rogers gives his favorite albums of the year thus far.
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"Business is about taking a bright idea and assembling a team that can turn that idea into a product and bring that product to customers who want to buy it. It's that simple. "
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Number 1 is YOU, the consumer as creator.
"I’m not one to believe that we’re in a Bubble 2.0 or anything like that (aren’t we always bubbular?), but here are a few ideas about why some of the web apps out there fail."
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"The World Cup is over, Italy is the champion, and it's time for a review of some of the highs and lows of the month-long jamboree."
After stormy discussion CSSBloom team has chosen the best 20 blog designs.
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50 ways to become a better designer
The way you work can have a huge impact on your creative success. We present the best advice from leading designers on every stage of the creative process, so that you can keep clients satisfied and make the most of your talents
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Chicago Tribune comes out with their big list again. Lots of old reliables (Economist is number 1, Wired is number 3) and a bunch you've never heard of (VegNews).
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Maxim rates the top 20 chains in America . . . Taco Bell comes in at number one.
Things You Didn't Know About Your Body
"The world's most amazing, practical, and powerful health tips for men"
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Mobile-Phone Models That Improve Upon the RAZR, SLVR, and PEBL.
McSweeney's: "ANGL HAR PSTA"
Russell Davies: "Inspired by the splendid Guy Kawasaki here are The Top Ten Lies Of Ad Agency Account Planners."
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The PingMag Standards Wish-list
Five things that need to be standardized across the world.
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102 Movies You Must See Before...
A list of "the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies."
"Great leaders are few and far between. This has nothing to do with genetics . . . The good news is that it’s relatively easy to learn to be a leader. You can start with these 8 beginner’s errors that can sabotage your efforts as a leader."
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"Being an executive is a tough job, no doubt. However there are a set of things any rational person has to believe about executives, that don’t match their behavior."
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My personal favorite: “Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences�
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Internet of things: working bibliography
Lots of great links about the "internet of things."
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"Smashing and overexceeding projects of tantamount quality, ingeniosity and creativity. Speed travel through the past year, and rediscover amazing sites. As you will see, 2005, was indeed a very good year for design!"
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Lifehacker's list of the best free software out there.
Aggregation and analysis of 75 "Best Albums of 2005" lists from around the world
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25 Sites You Shouldn't Have Missed in 2005
"The year 2005 was rich on fresh, inspiring and useful Web-Development-Resources. Here is the list of the 25 sites you probably shouldn’t have missed in 2005."
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If Poets Named Breakfast Cereals.
McSweeney's: "Bran and Plump Raisins, Pregnant With Earthy Promise"
10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small
Rajesh Setty: "There was a discussion a few months ago on whether being small had its advantages - agility, speed etc. My response then was that it all depends and I stick to the same opinion even today."
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How to make a hip end of the year best albums list
"If you don't plan on naming a couple of Import albums that don't come out in this country until the Spring of next year then stop reading right now and get the fuck out of my blog."
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An interview with Rex Sorgatz of fimoculous -- king of all lists
"First off, we live in a culture where events fly by so fast that history never has time to establish itself. (VH1's "Best Week Ever" is the personification of this -- a week is as far back as we can see)."
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2005's Largehearted Favorite Albums
Leargehearted Boy's top eleven albums of the year with lots of good MP3s to download. Yum yum.
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Socially Awkward Situations During Which It Would Be Acceptable to Mess With Texas.
McSweeney's: "Texas needs you to cover rent "just until I get back on my feet, man, I swear.""
McSweeney's: "Under Center"
PR blogger Steve Rubel lists his ten favorite Bloglines hacks.
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Why didn't I think of it? Why why why?
The five stages of dealing with The Million Dollar Homepage
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Everything you need to have in a Web 2.0 app
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The Top 40 Bands in America Today - 2005 Edition
"I emailed over 40 "music/MP3 bloggers" (since we are our own genre now) and asked them to send me a list, ranked 1-10, of the 10 best American bands that they've seen or heard in the last year."
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Actually, this is Largehearted Boy's top 10 with free MP3s.
Reasons Bloggers Hate the Mainstream Media.
McSweeney's: "Bloggers got stood up at prom. By the MSM."
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Simon Williams: The 10 New Rules of Branding
"The marketing community needs a new set of branding rules, says Simon Williams, chairman of New York-based branding consultancy Sterling Group. And he’s more than happy to supply them."
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The Art of Business: Marketing Smart
"Nine top ways to make your marketing fast and effective."
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Including the top 10 reasons to love Nike.
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Other Places Jimmy Buffett Wasted Away.
"Slipperynippleberg"
20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts
"Top 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts, which are likely to be used rather for official, serious presentations (such as business sites) than a colourful teenager’s homepage."
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Top Ten Mac OS X Freeware/Shareware Applications
Andy Budd: "Here are my current top ten OS X freeware and shareware applications. What are yours and why?"
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Jakob Nielsen: "Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues,"
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"I would like to talk about some blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive – maybe it inspires a thing or two on your own blog!"
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20 courses I didn't take in design school
Kottke: "As part of the conference within a conference for students, Michael Bierut listed 20 courses he did not take in design school (I think I got all of them)"
"Media allegiance spells limitation. Think first, then choose what tools to use."
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Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer
Garrett Dimon: "After the popularity of my previous going solo article, I thought I’d lay out some more specific ideas on how to become a freelance web developer."
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The top 10 most offensive religious jokes (as well as the 10 funniest). Both are very questionable lists.
The modern rules of advertising?
"He has drawn up a list of seemingly unwritten rules which, he concludes, might as well be the Advertising Bible."
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Top Ten Things You Can Do To Get Blogged
Some recommendations companies can follow to help them get blogged
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Ten more CSS tricks you may not know
"Our article, Ten CSS tricks you may not know has proven to be such a success that we decided it was time to offer you ten more CSS tricks that you may not know."
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Essential bookmarks for web-designers and webdevelopers
"Essential bookmarks for web-designers and web-developers', previously updated on my web-site, have a new design, a new hierarchical structure and, of course, new web-dev-resources."
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McSweeney's: "Camus is boring. I find Karl Jaspers's philosophy much more enlightening."
10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company
"1. Solve the smallest possible problem (that is still big enough to matter) for the user and know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. "
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Customer Service Phone Numbers & Email Addresses
Including Amazon.com (1-800-201-7575)
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Industries that Don't Seem to Understand the Web
"While there are plenty of businesses that don’t seem to understand that the web can do amazing things for them, there are some cases where an entire industry seems to not understand the full potential of the web."
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Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make
43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
Tags: design music internet usability tips lists posted
Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book.
McSweeney's: "Canceled Due to Fire"
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"advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals"
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Five California cities that sound kind of dirty
"Fawnskin"
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Developing web-sites, exploring own imagination (CSS, Color Tools, SEO, Usability etc.)
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Acts Prohibited by the U.S. House of Representatives' Proposed Flag-Burning Amendment.
McSweeney's: "Assuring the flag that you consider it a really good friend, and then pressuring it to sleep with you."
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"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
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McSweeney's: "There Are Plenty of Mohicans"
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"We voted, we sorted, we yelled, we cried, we took a little nap and eventually this is the list we came up with -- our Top 100 Games of All-Time, at least for this year."
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"If you could only buy 6 fonts, what would they be?"
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"These come from years of being frustrated by useless meetings and a true desire to help people get the most out of their work day."
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"I’m so Goth, I carry black food dye around in case I have to eat anything that's not black."
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10 Worthwhile Albums You Might Have Missed This Year
Pitchforkmedia.com: "a few albums we've all really enjoyed this year, but which-- whether a result of a technicality, bad timing, or just bad luck-- have managed to elude our Best New Music section."
Things My Boss Said to Me Without Elaborating.
McSweeney's: "Quick. Tell me everything of consequence that has happened."
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Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods
"The World’s Healthiest Foods has an excellent list of healthy foods which need less than 30 minutes of preparation and cooking times. "
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Steve Rubel's top 10 tech trends for the next 10 years.
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Rides From the Amusement Park of My Collective Memory.
McSweeney's: "Custody Battle"
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Readers proclaim their love for and loyalty to everything from iPods and TiVo to scum scrubbers and baby blankets.
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"The 37signals manifesto was our original site from 1999-2001. It's a collection of 37 nuggets of online philosophy and design wisdom."
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Directors Reveal Their Top 10 Lists
Everyone loves a list - even film directors. But what do their Top 10s say about their personalities?
McSweeney's: "A penny saved is a penny you don't have to earn by writing excitedly about wealth-management investment strategies for baby-boomer retirees."
Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
Everything you need to do to write like Kerouac
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Klosterman: "The Ten Best Proper Nouns of the Spin Era That Are Not Albums (or EPs), as Selected by People Who Are Currently in My Office."
This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
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"Known for the Air Jordan and Miller High Life ads, the agency's creative director Jelly Helm was recently featured in "Men's Health" magazine offering five rules of creativity."
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Ten things I learned about the future at the Wired NextFest
Arstechnica: "In the future, most robots will look pretty much like the robots of the future have looked since at least the 1970's."
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Top Ten Signs You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About Web 2.0
Read/Write Web: "6. Your favorite pickup line: "You show me your API, I'll show you mine.""
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Ad Slogans That Would Be Perfect for Levitra, But, Unfortunately, They Have Already Been Used.
McSweeney's: "Like a rock."
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Things Not Overheard at a Conceptual-Art Gallery Opening.
McSweeney's: ""Does naming the work 'Chaos' belie the artist's reliance upon a sparse, monochromatic field, or am I just a pretentious douchebag?""
"With help from experts and product manufacturers, Real Simple has compiled a guide to expiration dates. These dates are offered as a rough guideline."
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The Five Things I Learned In Business School
A VC: "I learned five things in business school. They are five important things, but there are only five that I can list."
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Five subtle editorial changes at PBS
5ives: "Sesame Street abruptly changes name to The Big Bird Factor"
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"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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Half-Assed Erotic Film Classics.
McSweeney's: "Debbie Does Amarillo"
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Things That, If Knowing Is Half the Battle, Might Be the Other Half.
McSweeney's: "25 percent drinking, 25 percent weeping"
10 Commandments for The Era of Participatory Public Relations
Micro Persuasion: "Here are the 10 commandments for public relations professionals as I see them in the Golden Era of Participation…"
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Pickup Lines: The First Drafts.
McSweeney's: "Your father must have been a thief. I don't know, you just have the look of someone who was raised by criminals."
How to appear in a hipster photoblog
myblogispoop: "Don't look directly at the camera, look off to the side as if to indicate that something really cool is happening. But please, don't be excited that something cool is happening."
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5 Movies I Wish People Would Stop Quoting
If this were about three years ago Fear and Loathing would easily make this list.
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No house on Fire Island or even a fire escape where you can do the 'cue? At these bars, weekends can still be about grilling and chilling.
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"Individually none of these signs should be deal breakers. However put a few of them together and it may be worth thinking twice about taking on that project."
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10 Worst Album Covers of All Time
They are bad.
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Five fake urban myths I’d like you to earnestly share with your friends and colleagues
5ives: "Studies show there’s more feces on your doorknob than there is in an actual pile of feces"
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "If you were a warp tube, I'd be in you all day."
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Things That Are Just Barely Thicker Than Peter Gallagher's Eyebrows.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Molasses"
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Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)
Ginormous and woot made the list.
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GarrettDimon.com: "Here's a list of programs I can't live without."
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An experiment to track del.icio.us' most popular posts, to ascertain who are the most frequent deliciously popular people.
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5ives: "1. Have Ryan start punching preppies at parties again"
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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A collection of MP3 blogs organized by genre and alphabetically
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Three Items at the Supermarket I See in a New Way, Now That I've Read Some Books on Literary Theory.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Post Raisin Bran"
A nice long list of menubar items for download
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What Every Good Marketer Knows
Seth Godin: "But, assuming that you’re like me and the rest of the people I know (which means you haven't figured out everything there is to know about marketing yet), here’s a list to get you started."
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184 Manually selected Style Sheet Resources
Sorted by category
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Good Casino Ads / Bad Things for Someone to Say About Your Mom.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Sundays are still TRIPLE ENTRY DAYS!"
Titles of Sermons to Which Congregants Might Actually Pay Attention.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "The Ten Commandmentsâ€â€Loopholes And Safe Harbors: The Technicalities You've Never Thought Of"
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Tips & Tweaks: Essential Web Sites
PCWorld: "There are the things you need; and then there are the things you didn't know you needed until you bumped into them on the Web. Here are a slew of sites I've come to love."
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"1. Don't let any material thing come into your home unless you absolutely love it and want to keep it until it is beyond repair."
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O'Reilly Radar: An "inventory the veritable cornucopia of web-based applications on which I run my day."
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Essential bookmarks for web designers and web developers
"The idea was simple: I wanted to list on a one single page the most useful web-sites, which make the life of web designers easier."
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"The difference between blogging and journalism lies in how mistakes are dealt with."
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Referring to me as "the Yellow Rose of Texas." [I am not blond, Texan, or jaundiced, and that coat was not yellow, it was camel. Maybe you could refer to me as "the Deathly White Opium Poppy of Northern California." That ha
Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers
You can't afford to miss this wave -- and even more important, you can't afford to do it wrong
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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Excessive politeness only makes sense as cover for something truly sinister. But what?"
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The Next Thing Said After Select Famous Phrases.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Mission Control to Neil Armstrong: "Wow, poetic. But between you and us, you're pissing yourself right now, aren't you?""
Lots of little tips to make your life a little easier
Mix snail porridge, sardine sorbet and you have a Fat Duck
Guardian article with a list of the top 50 restaurants in the world
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Andrew Bird's Current Favorites
Salon.com: "Audiofile reader favorite Andrew Bird's list of current listening favorites"
25 Things Women Wish Men Would Figure Out
All the stuff we expect you to know without our telling you.
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McSweeney's: "______-______-bo-______-bananna-fanna-fo-______-fee-fy-fo-______. ______!"
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What I Learned Listening to AM Radio.
McSweeney's: "All callers to sports talk radio shows are barely literate Italian kids named Joe."
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Things That Did Not Stay in Vegas.
McSweeney's: "Moral compass, slightly recalibrated"
Carlo's Bootleg RSS Feedpalooza
A nice list of bootleg RSS feeds
Andrew Bird: Pitchfork Artist List
Andrew Bird: "These are 10 songs or albums that transcend style and still get through to me"
What do we know about tipping?
10 interesting facts about tipping
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What is the one thing everyone should learn about science? Spiked asked 250 scientists - here we bring you some of the most provocative responses
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10 ways to tackle your goals and projects
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10 life lessons from a designer
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Life's top 10 greatest inventions
This list includes such popular inventions as the "brain" and "symbiosis"
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
McSweeney's: "Hey there, my little ... my little cowgirl. I'm Jack Bartlett. Want credit for a quotation? I don't think anyone's laid claim to your phone number yet. Nice. Just ... just one second, let me get a pen." - John Bartlett
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10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing
A good list of ways to get your brain working creatively and work through a problem
Tags: creativity productivity howto lists lifehacks posted
Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders
"Whoomp! There It Continues to Be"
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Great quotes of McLuhan
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Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles
A roundup of free stock photography
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A list of 42 fallacies
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On the Internet, 2nd (and 3rd and . . . ) Opinions
NYTimes: "Not all lists are so much fun. There are plenty of boring lists on the Web. Everyday, Web contests list their winners. Every blog has a running tab of favorite Web sites. Many of them take a good part of a minute to scroll through."
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Salon: "Sam Prekop, whose new record, "Who's Your New Professor?" was released last week, is the lead singer of the Sea and Cake. Here's a list of some of his current favorite music."
Best Restaurants in New York City
A list of great NYC restaurants
The social wish list repository
Tags: shopping socialsoftware lists posted
There are pubs everywhere in London. Usually at least one every two or three blocks on the larger streets.
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The Internet, ranked No. 1, changed the world
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13 things that do not make sense
13 of science's unanswered questions
Of Recent Note: For Spring 2005
The Morning News: "The Writers spring on you the stuff they’re into right nowâ€â€including what they’re reading, hearing, watching, finding, eating, using, installing, applying, and, yes, even scratching this season."
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So You'd Like to... See the Mountain Goats' list of Music You Should Hear
A guide by Amazon.com Music Store, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats
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Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV!
The top 10 best and worst looking celebrities on HDTV
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Ta-da Lists rewritten in java
In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums of all time.