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Existance is futile

Cat Pie Hurts — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:41:42 -0800

Let's start the year off right with The Most Useless Machine Ever!. AKA The BEST Machine Ever! via Do you love it? Build your own!

Best of the decade 2000-2009

stbalbach — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:12:15 -0800

The Noughtie List. A meta-list of "best of" lists for the 2000s decade. A similar meta-list for best of 2009.

Well, that's that then

shothotbot — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:09:49 -0800

Lev Grossman (wiki) has picked the six greatest fantasy novels of all time to This Weeks "Best Books...chosen by" series. Grossman blogs that each one"absolute indisputable classic" that "completely changed the game." The unordered list: -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis -- The Once and Future King by T.H. White -- Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories -- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien -- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke -- Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

Best/Site

vronsky — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:09:53 -0800

Wonderful documentary on the art inspired chain of Best retail stores designed by Site architectural firm in the '70s and early '80s. 1::2::3::4

Got Supercomputer?

Confess, Fletch — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:20:53 -0800

Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009 from Wired Magazine

I needed the red ascot to add some color!

miss lynnster — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:52:07 -0800

Meet Arlo Weiner, America's Most Stylish 8-Year-Old.

Top Three Thousand Songs and Albums

not_on_display — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:00:02 -0800

Acclaimed Music: The 3000 most recommended albums and songs of all time. From the Q&A section of the site: Which lists have been included for the compilation of the Acclaimed Music lists? Almost all critics lists I have got my hand on, including best-of-year lists, best-of-all-times lists etc., from critics, artists and music industry people all over the world . . . How have the lists been compiled? This is really not simple to explain. Please do not despair if you do not fully understand... I have written a program which computes the lists. The basic idea is that I match all records against each other in pairs. In a match, each critics list is weighted depending on * the number of lists I have from different parts of world (USA, UK or the rest of the world) ** when the list was presented (newer lists are weighted more heavily) *** how many matches the list is a part of (a list which only embraces a few years is not part of many matches and is therefore weighted heavily in the matches where it is included).

The best Best of Best of

Kirth Gerson — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:30:44 -0800

Rob O'Connor provides a list of the best 'Best Of' albums 19) The Motown Box--Various Artists: It's not just any label that can release a boxed set of their best acts and establish both group identity and label identity. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Four Tops all carved out their sound within the confines of a Detroit recording studio and the overhearing ears of Berry Gordy Jr. The label was a hit-making machine like Disney is today but loving and benevolent where now there is only the face of evil.

The best movies of all time?

dawson — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:46:12 -0800

The top 100 films According to The Times (UK) Another film list? The same old Citizen Kane? No - this one’s different, says The Times’s chief film critic James Christopher The point of The Times Top 100 Films of All Time is to stimulate argument, and sharpen your own thoughts about the ingredents that make great movies. We shall be horrified if anyone agrees with every one of our choices.

Emilio

fourcheesemac — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:33:05 -0800

Emilio Navaira is a Grammy-winning Tejano and country singer. Navaira's tour bus was traveling north along west 610 Loop near the Southwest Freeway when it crashed into a set of freeway barrels shortly before 4 a.m. He is clinging to life in a Houston hospital. His fans are praying for him. Doctors say he is now stable, but he faces a difficult recovery at best, and may never perform again. I hope with all my heart this does not become an obituary thread. This is a really big story for Tejano music fans. (It also appears Emilio was driving his own bus without a proper license, but maybe we don't need to argue about blame for the accident for now?) Eight other members of his tour were injured, some seriously.

Irritated and Indifferent

tkolar — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:27:08 -0800

Irritated and indifferent -- consumers in the Expectation Economy. [warning -- article is way too enthusiastic and engages in capslock abuse] The proliferation of online product review sites is making Consumer Reports look positively antiquated. This is particularly true for high-end products, where discovering "best of class" items is now just a few mouse-clicks (or one AskMe) away. How do you stay ahead of the curve when consumers regularly know more about your market than you do?

recycled web visuals and other web tools

nickyskye — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:25:58 -0800

Design Patterns, Reuse, recycle, but don’t reinvent the wheel unless necessary. This collection captures findings of consistent, unique or interesting interfaces and design flows from across the web. One of the many tools, tutorials etc. from Smashing Magazine's list, Best of September 2007. "Design Patterns by Brian Christiansen at UI Engineering. Via."

AFI Top 100

ztdavis — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:30:59 -0800

The American Film Institute decided the need for ~~more money~~ an update to their 1998 list of the 100 Greatest Movies was so pressing that they made a new list. Ebert (and friends) ask where's Fargo?. The IHT wonders why the past decade has only spawned four new, worthy movies. And, generally, no one seems super excited about it. (some links go to wikipedia to avoid registration on AFI's site).

Yet more Bullshit

hoverboards don't work on water — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:22:49 -0800

There's been plenty of Bullshit! on MetaFilter before, and now there's more: Boy Scouts [1, 2, 3] ("Duty to God ahead of country, others, and self, is the credo of suicide bombers."); Wal-Mart Hatred ("Wal-Mart is one of the great anti-poverty programmes in the country."); Circumcision ("By the end of this programme, one of these three will drop their pants and show us the restored foreskin on their penis."); and The Best ("Stupid? How many of you are searching for it on the web right now?").

The best 100 books written since 1982.

unSane — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:55:12 -0800

British bookseller Waterstones asked its 5,000 staff to name their favourite five books written since 1982, the date Waterstone’s opened its first store. These are the results.

Best openings of essays/academic works

LobsterMitten — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:21:02 -0800

Best opening (or closing) paragraphs of academic works, a discussion at Crooked Timber. (This is of course different from first lines of novels, as discussed here, there, and elsewhere.

Stephen J. Cannell: Dyslexia

CameraObscura — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:24:02 -0800

Stephen J. Cannell has created/co-created over 40 TV shows, written over 450 TV scripts for shows like The Rockford Files and The A Team , and 12 mystery novels. What's the catch? He is dyslexic..

Best Viral Videos 2006

hama7 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:58:40 -0800

Best Viral Videos 2006.

Chief Beer Officer

xmattxfx — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:19:08 -0800

The best job in the world... Jebus let it be true!

Best of the Web! Really!

wendell — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:16:53 -0800

The guy who does the xkcd webcomic is looking for the Best Thing (Evah!), The Fairest (of them all... may contain boobies but it's mostly scenery) and The Funniest (for MeFites suffering 'img tag' withdrawl).
His as-of-the-moment Top 20 Best, Prettiest and Funniest. YMMV (I'm counting on it).

And now for the Marvel haters :-D

Kickstart70 — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:20:30 -0800

IGN's top 50 DC Comics covers should satisfy those who didn't like the Marvel covers posted yesterday. Great art, traditional themes, and strange psychadelia.

I seem to be drunk! And also vomiting in your bonnet!

klangklangston — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:29:55 -0800

Make mine Maakies Tony Millionaire (who also does related comic Sock Monkey) has all of his sea-faring katzenjammers online. No direct links (curse you, frames!) but you can browse from here. The later ones are better (especially in the 540 range), but all are fun.

Why can't I be Mr. Black?

fenriq — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 16:49:27 -0800

Empire Online's 50 Greatest Independent Films
I had no idea The Terminator was an independent film but they explain (a little) how they choose the movies as being made with "an independent spirit".

And if you think they got some wrong or missed the boat entirely, let 'em know. I, for one, wholeheartedly agree with #1, though I'm sure some of you will not.

Al Queda pays with $2's?

NotMyselfRightNow — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:30:03 -0800

Best Buy's highly skilled staff of cashier-working counterfeit detectors, "a little nervous in the post-9/11 world", has the Baltimore police department put customer Mike Bolesta in handcuffs and leg irons after he uses uncommon but legal US currency to pay his bill.

"Meanwhile, everybody's looking at me. I've lived here 18 years. I'm hoping my kids don't walk in and see this. And I'm saying, 'I can't believe you're doing this. I'm paying with legal American money.'" Bolesta was then taken to the county police lockup in Cockeysville, where he sat handcuffed to a pole and in leg irons while the Secret Service was called in.

best retarded cat ever

timb — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:42:05 -0800

best retarded cat ever