The editors of Good magazine have compiled a list of the top (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most Influential, most necessary, most Important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever. Check out all 51…
1. Esquire. Under Harold T.P. Hayes (1961-1973)
2. The New Yorker
3. Life. (1936-1972)
4. Playboy
5. The New York Times Magazine
6. Mad. Post comic book, before the death of founder William Gaines (1955-1992)
7. Spy. Until it was sold to fun-sponge Jean Pigozzi (1986-1991)
8. Wired. Early years until Conde Nast buyout (1993-1998)
9. Andy Warhol’s Interview. Until Warhol’s death (1969-1988)
10. Colors. The first 13 issues, under Tibor Kalman (1991-1996)
February 24th, 2007
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported the median salaries of America’s 50 highest-paying jobs. The following article from CareerBuilder discloses all 50 professions. As you may expect, surgeons and physicians dominate the top of list. Following is a list of the top 10 highest-paying non-medical jobs. View the full list of America’s top earning positions…
10. Chief Executives - $139,810 
12. Airline Pilots, Copilots and Flight Engineers - $135,0400
15. Lawyers - $110,520
16. Air Traffic Controllers - $105,820
17. Engineering Managers - $105,470
18. Computer and Information Systems Managers - $102,360
19. Marketing Managers - $101,990
20. Astronomers - $101,360
21. Natural Sciences Managers - $99,140
22. Sales Managers - $98,510
February 22nd, 2007
Time Out New York’s first-ever ranking of the 50 best residential blocks in the city. View the full results…
1. South Portland Ave. between DeKalb and Lafayette Ave., Fort Greene, Brooklyn
2. Gramercy Park South between Park Ave. South and Irving Place, Gramercy Park
3. West 20th St. between Ninth and Tenth Ave., Chelsea
4. 45th Ave. between 21st and 23rd St., Long Island City, Queens
5. Convent Ave. between 143rd and 144th St., Sugar Hill
6. Montgomery Place bet. Prospect Park West & Eighth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
7. Beck St. between Longwood Avenue and East 156th St., Longwood, Bronx
8. Coffey St. between Conover and Ferris St., Red Hook, Brooklyn
9. Charlton St. between Sixth Ave. and Varick St., Soho
10. West 78th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam Ave., Upper West Side
February 20th, 2007
Two sites are collecting links to Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs (active public blogs by company employees about the company and its products).
February 11th, 2007
When it comes down to it, it’s the big screen where fashions are immortalized. Not the runway, not the street. From Shaft to North by Northwest, here are the movies that will never go out of fashion. View the slideshow on Men.Style.com…
- Three Days of the Condor - 1975
- A Clockwork Orange - 1971
- Purple Noon - 1960
- North by Northwest - 1959
- Trainspotting - 1996
- Get Carter - 1970
- Diner - 1982
- Breathless - 1959
- Stranger Than Paradise - 1984
- Shaft - 1971
- Badlands - 1973
- Quadrophenia - 1979
- Rushmore - 1998
- A Hard Day’s Night - 1964
- Shampoo - 1975
- 8 1/2 - 1963
- Bullitt - 1968
- American Gigolo - 1980
- Reservoir Dogs - 1992
- How to Steal a Million - 1966
- Blowup - 1966
- In the Mood for Love - 2000
- The Godfather Part II - 1974
- The Harder They Come - 1973
- Ocean’s 11 - 1960
February 11th, 2007
From HipMojo.com, the ten “best” Internet acquisitions of all time. Read the full article…
1. News Corporation acquires MySpace-parent Intermix for $580M in May 2005
2. New York Times acquires About.com for $410M in February, 2005
3. Google acquires Sprinks in October 2003
4. Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63B in July, 2003
5. Yahoo! acquires Inktomi for $235M in December, 2002
6. AOL Time Warner acquires Advertising.com for $435M in June 2004
7. eBay acquires Paypal for $1.5B in 2002
8. Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings for $343M in March 2004
9. Microsoft acquires Hotmail for $400M in 1998
10. aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004
February 6th, 2007
