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Learn, Money Back, Guaranteed

jabberjaw — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:23:47 -0800

You can rank U.S. colleges by subjective, random methodologies. Or, you can rank colleges by what really matters: how much money you'll make after you graduate. Spoiler: Ivy Leaguers make more money.

We're going to need a bigger Netflix plan

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:31:31 -0800

In a time of top 10 lists, there are those who aim higher: They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? maintains an annually updated list of the 1,000 greatest films ever made, as well as the 250 greatest of the 21st century. Kevin B. Lee wants to see them all. How many have you seen? (via)

Rank Not Lest Ye Be Ranked

prefpara — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:52:19 -0800

Vault.com has created its own ranking of the top US law schools. Vault's blog post about it is here. Above the Law, a popular legal blog, commented here. It leaked the 2009 US News rankings here. An article discussing the US News rankings, here. (For a general sense of what the issues are). A legal blog responds with some ideas as to how rankings can be improved, here. A law professor pleads with bloggers to refrain from publishing the US News rankings here.

Is alcohol worse than ecstasy?

Jakey — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:37:10 -0800

A BBC Horizon documentary, asks "Is alcohol worse than ecstasy?" (iPlayer link valid for UK users until 11 Feb). Here comes the science... The programme is based on a paper published last year in the Lancet titled "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" (pdf), which attempts an objective ranking of the 20 most common recreational drugs in the UK in terms of harm. A summary of the rankings and comparison with the existing UK classifications is here. The Transform Drugs Policy Foundation (Previously).has an interesting blog post summarising some of the policy discussions and media reaction resulting from the original paper.

Best Universities in the World

Gyan — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:20:48 -0800

The Times Higher Education Supplement's World University Rankings [link to PDF]

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s

LinusMines — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:50:51 -0800

Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1970s (dis|cuss|discuss).

The 100 greatest British albums

feelinglistless — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:22:21 -0800

The 100 greatest British albums ... and look what came first. Why? I personally don't believe the justification given. And surely the word Rock is missing from the title of the poll because I don't see many other genres mentioned. To be honest, I'm with Miranda Sawyer on this one -- why aren't more girls aloud?

College Rankings!

Jos Bleau — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:54:31 -0800

College Rankings! Seems like everyone's talking about 'em. There's the good ole controversial US News & World Report rankings, but thanks to the the librarians at UIUC, this wonderful site has links to many, many, many different rankings, including ones that let you make your own rankings. There's also rankings of some of the more important non-academic features of colleges, too. Does college rank really matter?

And in with a bang at number...

i_cola — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:07:12 -0800

The inaugural World Terrorism Index from the World Markets Research Centre ranks Australia at 38 (out of 186), the UK at number 10 and the US at number 4. So who is number 1? [More inside...]

Best song of the last quarter century?

a3matrix — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:30:55 -0800

Best song of the last quarter century? Ok, I liked the song when it came out,(Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit) and can still listen to it today. But, VH1 is saying it is the best song for the last quarter century. That, I have a problem with. It is going to take me some time to reflect on this and come up with some alternates. I thought you folks may have your own opinions as well. So, lets hear it, what do you think is the best song of the last quarter century?

Let's hope no one turned her down for a prom date

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 05 May 2003 12:12:08 -0800

Does being valedictorian still matter? A New Jersey high school student with top grades and a 1570 SAT score is suing her school (including a $2.5 million punitive damages demand) for deciding to make her one of three "co-valedictorians." Considering that valedictorian is an award given well after college acceptance letters are sent out, is the title actually relevant in the American education system? Has anyone here actually gained something (other than pride) via the highest GPA in their class?

The Hostest With The Mostest And The League Of Nations

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:29:03 -0800

Which Country Has The Most Beautiful Women? The best quality of life? The most divorces? The most mobile phones? The highest cost of living? Which one is the most visited? Rank the bastards! After browsing through this website, I'm sure the conclusion that we're all living in the wrong one is inescapable. The statistics and sources may be questionable, but there sure are a lot of interesting lists here! Meanwhile my own country, Portugal, has just been denounced as the the laziest in Europe and the booziest in the world. They lie! They lie! [Actually, it's a fair cop, guv. And it was nice to drag down the Brits with us.]

U.S. states ranked according to smartness.

shoos — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:53:26 -0800

U.S. states ranked according to smartness. The ranking was based on such factors as average high school dropout rate, how much teachers earn and how frequently they are attacked, etc. There are probably some other relevant factors they might have included, but didn't. What criteria do you think would be most appropriate for measuring a state's relative intelligence?

kokogiak — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:12:02 -0800

Alexa's Top 500 Websites - Accurate or not, here is Alexa.com's list of their top 500 ranked websites - globally. This has been touched on both earlier today and back in April. Today's top ten sites iclude two korean sites, one japanese, one chinese, and six us-based sites. Also a more-clear definition of Alexa's Ranking system is here, complete with biases listed (such as IE users only, Alexa Users only, etc).

kirkaracha — Sun, 07 Jul 2002 09:25:32 -0800

The cars that made America CNN/Money picks the 10 greatest American cars of all time

boneybaloney — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:14:57 -0800

The two best music videos ever are Spike Jonze productions, says VH1. Weapon Of Choice wins, followed by Sabotage. Personally I'd go for Island In The Sun out of the Jonze oeuvre, but all-time......off the top of my head I'd probably go for Lionel Ritchie's comedy classic 'Hello'. What do you reckon to be the top dog of music promos?

mathowie — Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:59:26 -0800

Today, MetaFilter is the CoolSTOP Best of Cool award winner. Joe Jenett says "At first, the large fonts seemed awkward to me - then it dawned on me that when you have a lot to read, the big type is kinda nice!" I just wanted to add that if you register, you can change the body text font size and family, turn off link underlining, and launch hyperlinks in new windows if you want, it's all in the preferences.

mathowie — Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:15:36 -0800

Gomez.com looks like they're doing the same thing that Bizrate is doing: rating the dotcommerce companies. It seems like a lot of companies have been copying the Amazon interface, now I see why. In the 'Ease of Use' category, Amazon is number one in books, toys, and music (they would have swept all their categories but Borders won for Video).

tdecius — Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:15:48 -0800

Jerry's Ranking of the U.S. Presidents - Think fast! Who was the better President, Franklin Pierce or John Tyler? Time's up! It's Tyler. Of course, this guy also says that Clinton is better than Lincoln, so I guess that's the problem. Tyler has nothing on Pierce anyways....