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The Happiest Place to Live 2009
Hawaii was the happiest place to live in the U.S. in 2009, according to a newly released national survey. Hawaii also topped the charts for life evaluation, emotional health and physical health. Nine of the top 10 well-being states reside in the Midwest and the West. The results come from interviews with more than 350,000 American adults who took [...]
Vimeo’s 25 Favorite Videos of 2009
Vimeo is a social networking site for filmmakers and video creators, with more than 2.8 million members. Here are five of Vimeo's favorite videos of the year. See the rest at Vimeo... (Give the aquarium video some time to load before watching...otherwise you won't have smooth playback) Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in [...]
75 Best Business Blogs of 2009
What defined business in 2009? Bankers and bailouts, for one. The proliferation of social media. A radical shift in the ways we find and accept jobs. A redefinition of the real estate, credit, and media markets. In a word, 2009 was full of fluctuations. And nobody covered, commented on, and analyzed them better than the 75 blogs on [...]
100 Best Global Brands 2009
Google, Amazon, and Zara are among the top gainers in BusinessWeek and Interbrand’s annual ranking of the “Best Global Brands.” UBS slipped dramatically down the list, falling 31 places to No. 72, losing 50% of its brand value. Coca-Cola remains the No. 1 brand for the ninth year in a row. For the ninth consecutive year, BusinessWeek [...]
NYTimes Top 10 Travel Stories of 2009
Chic hostels in London, the remote wilderness of southern Utah and luxurious getaways in Costa Rica — these are just a few of the year's most viewed stories from The New York Times Travel section. Read the full article... 1. Frugal Paris Even for those on a budget, the City of Light can offer unexpected pleasures. 2. Frugal [...]
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009
For Publishers Weekly annual best books list, they chose 100 from more than 50,000 volumes. This year they upped the ante with the top 10 list below. Check out Publishers Weekly top 100 books of 2009, divided by category: fiction, poetry, mystery, science fiction, mass market, comics, nonfiction, and religion. Visit PW... Cheever: A [...]
Kiplinger’s Best Cities 2009
For the 2009 list, Kiplinger's Personal Finance kept their focus on the best places to live, but also wanted to emphasize the best cities for work. They selected cities that have stable employment rates in key job areas as well as provide new career opportunities. A premium was put on places that will lead the country in employment growth when [...]
10 Best Movie Posters of 2009
Moviefone.com compiled a list of the ten best movie posters of 2009. View the full article... 1. 'An Education' 2. 'The Girlfriend Experience' 3. 'Jennifer's Body' 4. 'Up' 5. 'Broken Embraces' 6. 'Inglourious Basterds' 7. 'Up in the Air' 8. 'Food Inc.' 9. 'Precious: Based on a Novel by Sapphire' 10. 'Julie & Julia'
US News Best Colleges 2010
Harvard and Princeton share the top of US News & World Report's 2010 list of national universities, while Williams ranks the highest among liberal arts colleges. View the full best colleges report... America's Best Colleges * Baccalaureate Colleges * Business programs * Engineering programs * Master's Universities * National [...]
NPR’s Best Books of 2009
The complete list of NPR's Best Books of 2009 recommendations. Each critic's list is presented separately. Read excerpts from each book on NPR.org... Recommended by Glen Weldon ("The Five Best Books To Share With Your Friends") * Conquest of the Useless by Werner Herzog * Asterios Polyp,edited by David Mazzucchelli * The Collected Stories [...]
The Altantic’s Books of the Year
Atlantic literary editor Benjamin Schwarz picks the twenty five best books of 2009. The top five books are listed below. View the twenty runners up on Atlantic.com... ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A Life By Michael Burlingame Johns Hopkins Measured, psychologically astute, authoritative when it can be, Michael Burlingame’s exhaustive narrative [...]
States Ranked by Top Colleges
The Global Language Monitor ranked the top U.S. colleges and universities according their appearance in global print and electronic media for a 2009 report. States were ranked by the number of the top 225 colleges and universities located in each state. See the list of Top Colleges and Universities as ranked by state... The Top Ten States, with [...]
Metacritic’s Best-Reviewed Albums of 2009
Metacritic.com collates reviews from respected critics and publications. Their album score shows the critical consensus at a glance by taking a weighted average of critic grades. The following list displays the 30 highest-scoring albums for the year in Metacritic's database. Albums must have at least 7 reviews to qualify for high score lists. [...]
Amazon’s Best Books of 2009
Amazon.com's Best Books of 2009 includes choices for the very best out of a year's worth of reading. You'll find great books for readers of all ages and interests in their top 100 editors' and customers' lists, as well as year-end top 10s in dozens of categories. Topping their editors' list is Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann's gorgeous [...]
PC World 100 Best Products of 2009
PC World looked at many outstanding hardware, software, sites, and services, evaluating each one on its design, functionality, performance, and impact. Here is the cream of the crop, the 100 best of 2009. View the top 100... App Store (iPhone apps) Site | PC World App Guide Google Voice (telephony service) Full review Intel X25-M Solid [...]
World’s Best Companies 2009
From Japanese electronics to Spanish textiles, the companies that made this list are thriving in the recession and preparing for beyond. As the economic outlook brightens, those that have worked hard to survive the tough times of the past year are best prepared to seize new opportunities. It is these enterprises that have risen to the top of the [...]
Pitchfork.com’s Best of Music Lists
Pitchfork Media offers dozens of "best-of" music lists – such as the best albums of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and the best songs of the 1960s and 2000s – as well as annual features detailing the best singles and albums of each year since 1999. View the lists...
100 Best Books of the Decade
The Times of London compiled the 100 best books of the decade. View the full list... The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003) Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (2004) Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers trans Robert Bringhurst (2002) Suite Française by [...]
Forbes Richest People In America
Forbes publishes an annual list of the 400 richest Americans. The Forbes 400 is a snapshot of wealth on Sept. 10, 2009. The minimum net worth for inclusion in this year’s rankings was USD 1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. See the full list of 400. Or create your own list. 1. William Gates III 2. Warren Buffett 3. [...]
The World’s Most Powerful People
There are 67 slots on Forbes' first ranking of the World's Most Powerful People --one for every 100 million people on the planet. Barack Obama tops the list, thanks to his control of the world's largest economy, military, and nuclear arsenal. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have a combined net worth of $30 billion, and come in fifth. [...]
The Best Free Fonts of 2009
WebDesignLedger.com collected some of the best free fonts from 2009. View the designs in WDL's Freebies section... Chunk Calluna Vegur League Gothic Sansation Quicksand Mentone Serif Beta Goudy Bookletter 1911 Titilium Junction
TIME’s 25 Best Blogs 2009
TIME's second annual list of the best blogs in the world, spanning politics, housekeeping, astronomy and everything in between. See the full list... Talking Points Memo The Huffington Post Lifehacker Metafilter The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan Freakonomics BoingBoing Got2BeGreen Zen Habits The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul [...]
CNN Money’s Best Places to Live 2009
Which small towns in America have weathered the economic storm and continued to provide residents with affordable living, great educations, low crime and more? CNN Money outlined the top 100 in the 2009 Best Places to Live list powered by Onboard Informatics data. See the top 100... 1. Louisville, CO 2. Chanhassen, MN 3. Papillion, NE 4. [...]
US News Best Places to Live 2009
The “Best Places to Live,” selected by U.S. News editors, were chosen from 2,000 locations by examining factors including an area’s economy, cost of living, population, crime rate, and access to educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities. All cities offer strong economies, low living costs and ample, affordable recreational [...]
KAYAK’s Top 10 Travel Lists
KAYAK'S Traveler blog features dozens of travel-related top 10 lists. A recent sampling includes best airports, ten top haunted hotels, top bed & breakfast inns, best green hotels, best kids pools, best rooftop hotel pools, best new hotels of 2009, best big city bargains, and more. Visit Kayak.com Traveler for the lists...
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