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Fortune 500 Business Blogs

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).

• Ross Mayfield of Socialtext.net in collaboration with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine / TheLongTail.com
  
• And BlogBusinessSummitt.com

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Timeline of History: 60,000 BCE to the Present

Frank Smitha began writing the unbiased history of the world that appears on Fsmitha.com in 1987. His website contains a description of events and ideas from prehistory to the 21st century - stories that you can connect into a big picture. The timeline section linked here begins with 60,000 BCE (the Common Era is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 on the Gregorian calendar) and continues to present day. Get ready to become the smartest person you know…

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The 25 Most Stylish Films of All Time

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

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Elvis Costello’s 500 Albums Essential to a Happy Life

“Here are 500 albums that can only improve your life. Many will be quite familiar, others less so. It was impossible to choose just one title by Miles Davis, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Mingus, etc. Sometimes an album contains just one indispensable song. Shot of Love may not be your favorite Bob Dylan record, but it might contain his best song: Every Grain of Sand. You will see that some very famous names are missing completely. There is nothing at all by Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Michael Jackson, or Sting. You may love them. They just don’t do it for me. There’s not too much disco or dance, except the mighty Chic. If you want something from Los Angeles in the early 70s, I suggest you purchase the first Jackson Browne record; it will save you buying all those Eagles albums. There is nothing to speak of from the 80s, the decade that music forgot, except for Robert Wyatt. Not many Divas, except for Callas and Aretha. There are probably songs being composed right now that will eclipse every entry on this list in somebody’s heart or mind. It is my experience that music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn’t charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.” Check out the list….

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