http://gr8list.com/blog2 A collection of great "best of" lists. Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:24:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en US News & World Report has launched RankingsAndReviews.com, a new site that condenses reviews of major consumer products into rankings and meta-reviews. http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/10/08/best-product-rankings-reviews/ Internet blogs are taking on big corporations and winning. As the bloggerati continue to set the agenda London's Times Online provides a list of the 50 top blogs in the following categories: Economics, Banking & Finance, Construction & Property, Engineering, Health, Industrials, Leisure, Media & Marketing, Natural Resources, Retail, Law, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/07/08/the-50-best-business-blogs/ Folio examined the entire industry, as well as a few markets that intersect it, for individuals who best represent an increasingly multifaceted media landscape. People who have demonstrated tangible proof of actionable ideas. This year’s list highlights the best in the industry from consumer, b-to-b, association, and regional publications. The ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/04/12/the-40-most-influential-people-in-the-magazine-publishing-industry/ Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) is the industry association for consumer magazines. Magazine.org's blogroll features 400 blogs from member magazines. All blogs are classified under their magazine name on the left window. Once you select a magazine, a list of their current blogs will appear below next to an orange ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/03/17/400-magazine-blogs/ The redesigned Time.com features a long list of podcasts, from the Top 100 Albums of all-time, to Time's 100 Builders & Titans. Subscribe to Time podcasts using your favorite podcasting software or download individual audio files directly to your portable media player... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/03/17/timecoms-podcasts/ The National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have unveiled the official list of the 200 albums and soundtracks that comprise the Definitive 200. See the full list... 1. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon 3. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/03/11/the-top-200-albums-of-all-time-2/ Giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores, with 1.8 million employees, tops the first published list of the world's 500 largest corporate employers. Home to nearly half of the companies on the list, the United States boasts the largest employers in 13 out of 28 industries, according to the study by My Global ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/03/04/the-worlds-500-largest-corporate-employers/ Each week, the movie critics of The New York Times recommend a selection of films for the Movies section of NYTimes.com. The recommendations are based solely on that critic's personal opinion of the film. Find out the best movies currently playing at your local theater, or out on DVD... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/03/03/best-movie-picks-from-new-york-times-film-critics/ 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 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/24/the-51-best-magazines-ever/ 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 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/22/americas-top-50-salaries/ Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives - everything from new site features, to partnerships, and redesigns, documented ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/21/list-of-online-magazine-initiatives/ 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., ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/20/new-yorks-50-best-blocks/ 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 http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/11/lists-of-fortune-500-business-blogs/ 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 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/11/timeline-of-history-60000-bce-to-the-present/ 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 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/11/the-25-most-stylish-films-of-all-time/ "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 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/11/elvis-costellos-500-albums-essential-to-a-happy-life/ Online video, live webcasts, social networking, customer reviews--these are the kinds of things that make this year's Top 50 online etailers shine. Last year the best e-retailers were fine-tuning and adding some features. This year they're bounding forward in ways that show how some retailers are more imaginative and more ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/08/internet-retailers-top-50-retail-sites-2007/ TIME's critics present the greatest movies, TV, books, fashion, video games, theater, websites, music and more of 2006... Albums Business Deals Books Buzzwords Comics DVDs Fashion Trends Kids' Books Medicine Movies: Corliss & Schickel Podcasts Songs Sports Moments Theater TV Shows Video Games Web Sites Web Videos http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/08/times-top-ten-lists-2006/ 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 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/06/top-10-best-internet-acquisitions-of-all-time/ Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Their goal is to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses --single pages that ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/02/04/squidoos-top-100/ AdForum is a leading online resource for information on advertising agencies and advertising creative work from around the world. Their database contains a large collection of the world's best TV, print, internet, outdoor and radio ads. View video of the top TV commercials of 2006, including clips from Canada, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/18/the-worlds-best-tv-commericals-of-2006/ Fast Company spoke with trend experts to compile a list of the top 10 professions that will be in high demand in 2007... 1. Art Directors 2. Buyers and Purchasing Agents 3. Experience Retail Designers 4. Medical Researchers 5. News Analysts, Reporters, and Bloggers 6. Security Systems Engineers 7. Talent Agents 8. Urban Planners 9. Viral Marketers and ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/17/10-hot-jobs-for-2007/ A web widget is a small piece of interactive content (like a scorebox, music player, or game) that can be dynamically embedded into a web page. Widgets allow for a new level of expression and creativity as web publishers use them to create value and interest in their blogs, social ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/17/the-most-popular-web-content-widgets/ Fiction: Absurdistan. By Gary Shteyngart The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel. By Amy Hempel The Emperor's Children. By Claire Messud The Lay Of The Land. By Richard Ford Special Topics In Calamity Physics. By Marisha Pessl Nonfiction: Falling Through The Earth. By Danielle Trussoni The Looming Tower. By Lawrence Wright Mayflower. By Nathaniel Philbrick The Omnivore's Dilemma. By Michael Pollan The ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/the-new-york-times-10-best-books-of-2006/ VH1's Greatest series presents rankings of the best songs, artists, albums, and everything else in rock 'n' roll. Each countdown is revealed by a celebrity host, and through new interviews and classic footage, you'll also learn the reasons behind the experts' choices. View all "The Greatest" countdown lists... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/all-of-vh1s-the-greatest-lists/ Newsknife.com rates news sites based on relevance analysis within the main Google News site. These ratings are based on a sample of 438,330 individual listings at Google News by 4504 sites for 1768 news items during 2006... 1. ABC News 2. New York Times 3. Reuters 4. Washington Post 5. Times Online, UK 6. Forbes 7. Guardian ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/the-top-news-sites-of-2006/ The Top 49 Men of 2006 is the product of more than one million votes cast by AskMen.com readers. View the full rankings, and profiles of each man who made the list... 1. George Clooney 2. Jay-Z 3. Richard Branson 4. Lance Armstrong 5. Tom Ford 6. Jerry Bruckheimer 7. Johnny Depp 8. David Beckham 9. Jorge Perez 10. Bill ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/askmencoms-top-49-men/ Brightcove is an Internet TV service used by content owners, consumers, web publishers, and advertisers. Watch their most popular 100 videos... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/brightcoves-top-100-buzz-videos/ The Immortals began with the creation of a panel of fifty-five top musicians, historians, industry executives and critics, selected by the editors of Rolling Stone. Voters were asked to pick, in order of preference, the twenty artists they deemed to be the most significant and influential of rock's first fifty ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/rolling-stones-50-greatest-artists-of-all-time/ EContent presents the 100 companies that lead the digital content industry today. Judging categories include: 1. Content Commerce, 2. Content Security, 3. Blogging, 4. Classification & Taxonomy, 5. Collaboration, 6. Content Creation, Production, & Digital Publishing, 7. Content Delivery, 8. Content Management, 9. Fee-Based Info Services, 10. Intranets & Portals, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/top-100-digital-content-industry-companies-2006/ 1.The Road, By Cormac McCarthy 2. The Looming Tower, By Lawrence Wright 3. The View from Castle Rock, By Alice Munro 4. State of Denial, By Bob Woodward 5. Suite Francaise, By Irene Nemirovsky 6. At Canaan's Edge, By Taylor Branch 7. Fun Home, By Alison Bechdel 8. The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/new-york-magazines-best-books-of-2006/ Google is ranked No. 1 in Fortune’s 10th annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Genentech, a biotech company, is No. 2 on the list, followed by Wegmans Food Markets, which has been on the list all 10 years. Container Store and Whole Foods Market round out the top ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/100-best-companies-to-work-for-2007/ The Weblog Awards are the world's largest blog competition, with over 525,000 votes cast in the 2006 edition for finalists in 45 categories. Nominations ended November 24, and voting was conducted between December 7 and December 15. Final results were announced Dec. 18, 2006. View the full list here... The top ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/the-2006-weblog-award-winners/ Flickr's "Camera Finder" shows the number of members who have uploaded at least one photo with a particular camera on a given day over the last year. The graph lines moving up or down indicates a change in the camera's popularity relative to all other cameras used by Flickr members. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/the-most-popular-cameras-used-on-flickr/ The 50 Greatest Cartoons was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by 1,000 animation industry professionals. Details can be found on Wikipedia... CityRag found links to online videos for many of the cartoons. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/the-50-greatest-cartoons-of-all-time/ The 43 organizations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a better way to do good: They're using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems. The Social Capitalist Awards define strong performance as a combination of both social impact and ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/43-entrepreneurs-who-are-changing-the-world/ From a special RED edition of London's newspaper, The Independent. Read the full article... 1.) Bicycle Thieves - 1948 2.) Taxi Driver - 1976 3.) Lawrence of Arabia - 1962 4.) 8 1/2 - 1963 5.) The Third Man - 1949 6.) Yojimbo - 1961 7.) Manhattan - 1979 8.) Sunset Boulevard - 1950 9.) The Shining - ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/15/leonardo-dicaprios-10-favorite-movies/ Following is a list of Web 2.0 winners, according to Wired, Wired's Monkey Bites blog, and Wisdump.com. Basecamp Blinklist Bloglines Browzar del.icio.us Digg Dimewise Facebook Flickr Friends4Days Friendster GMail Google Calendar Google Spreadsheets Kayak Last.fm LibraryThing Local.Live.com MetaCafe MySpace NetVibes Newsvine Odeo Revver Skype Spurl Squidoo WordPress Yahoo Yelp YouTube http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/14/top-web-20-winners/ Beach Trips Cinematic Getaways Cruises for Couples Daredevil Adventures Getaways for the Girls Great Golfing Resorts Ghostly Getaways High-Tech Travel Treats Hip Hotels Hotels with Pillow Menus Luxury Hotels Pet-Pampering Hotels Romantic Escapes Specialty Cruises Sublime Hotel Spas Swim-up Bars Top Spots for Family Fun Transforming Nonstop Flights Where the Stars Stay http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/14/expediacoms-top-travel-destinations/ FanPop.com has collected 101 classic holiday specials, and Christmas videos. View the top 5 in the "hall of fame" below, then check out the full list... 1. It's a Wonderful Life (click to watch) 2. A Charlie Brown Christmas (click to watch) 3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (click to watch) 4. How the ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/01/101-classic-christmas-videos/ Students who pursue an MBA enjoy a major return on their investment. To determine the schools on this list, The Princeton Reivew looked at institutional data concerning job placement and average starting salary of students after graduation. According to The Princeton Review’s annual survey of 18,000 business school students at ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/01/business-schools-with-the-best-career-prospects/ The Atlantic has published a list of the top 100 influential figures in American history. It was compiled by asking a panel of ten historians to each produce a list, and the lists were then merged. Check out the full list... 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. George Washington 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 5. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/01/the-most-influential-figures-in-american-history/ 100 Notable Books of the Year from The New York Times Book Review. The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4, 2005. View the top fiction, poetry and nonfiction books of 2006... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2007/01/01/the-new-york-times-top-100-books-of-2006/ Countdown the Top 100 Cover Songs, according to retroCRUSH.com, with accompanying video clips on YouTube... 1) "My Way" by Sid Vicious Original Artist: Frank Sinatra 2) "Proud Mary" by Ike and Tina Turner Original Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival 3) "Hurt" by Johnny Cash Original Artist: Nine Inch Nails 4) "Satisfaction" by Devo Original Artist: The Rolling Stones 5) "Respect" ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/11/26/the-top-100-cover-songs/ The ultimate gift list. Categories include: Beauty and Body Care, Books and Music, Food Favorites, Children, Home, Pets, High Tech Discoveries, and What to Wear. Check out Oprah's Favorite Things... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/11/26/oprahs-favorite-things/ Each year, Wine Spectator magazine editors survey the wines reviewed during the calendar year and select the most exciting wines for the Top 100. The wines chosen are based on four criteria: quality, value, availability, and "excitement." In 2006, Wine Spectator reviewed more than 13,500 wines from around the world in ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/11/25/wine-spectators-top-100-wines-of-2006/ A list of the 100 greatest and most influential albums was recently compiled by Time magazine music critics. The Beatles have five albums on the list, more than any other group. Bob Dylan leads all male artists with three and Aretha Franklin leads the women with two. Elvis Presley is ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/11/15/times-top-100-albums-of-all-time/ View the top 100 music videos popular with MSN.com visitors. Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/31/msns-top-100-music-videos/ With all of the buzz surrounding web video, it’s surprisingly difficult to find a good movie online. YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo’s “The 9” - can show you what’s popular through their respective ranking systems. But how can you-the-viewer ferret out what is worth watching? The Daily Reel showcases the best ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/27/the-daily-reels-top-10-new-videos/ The Martha Stewart Show shared a list of 20 essential tools in her kitchen. From baking to cooking to preparing, each tool will make you more efficient in the kitchen. View all 20 tools... Watch a video clip of Martha using each tool... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/27/martha-stewarts-20-essential-kitchen-tools/ The best magazine covers of the year were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference, by Cynthia Leive, President of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Editor-in-Chief of Glamour, and Marlene Kahan, ASME's Executive Director. The conference, a premier industry event attended by executive-level magazine publishers and editors, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/25/the-best-magazine-covers-of-the-year/ Philadelphia-based radio station WXPN offers a countdown of the 885 greatest music artists of all time, as voted by their listening audience. View the full list... 1. The Beatles 2. Bob Dylan 3. Rolling Stones 4. Bruce Springsteen 5. U2 6. Led Zeppelin 7. Greaful Dead 8. Neil Young 9. Pink Floyd 10. Joni Mitchell WXPN also features a list ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/24/885-greatest-music-artists-and-albums-of-all-time/ In their new book, The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived, Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan and Jeremy Salter ranked characters of myth, legends, television, and movies based on how greatly they've affected society. These cultural icons exist only in the imagination. Folks like Batman (No. 60), Cinderella (No. 26), ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/20/the-101-most-influential-fictional-characters/ These laptops can do it all and are a great choice for most notebook users. Read the full reviews from PCWorld... 1. HP Pavilion dv5000t 2. HP Pavilion dv5000z 3. Lenovo 3000 C100 4. Lenovo ThinkPad R60 5. HP Pavilion dv2000t http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/17/top-5-all-purpose-laptops/ Bullz-Eye.com recently polled all of their movie and music writers to get their favorite uses of pop songs in movies. Criteria: The song couldn’t have been written specifically for the film or have made its debut on the film’s soundtrack. Countdown the top 40 pop songs used in movies, and ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/10/17/the-top-40-music-moments-in-film-history/ Love food, will travel. If experimenting with regional foods is your favorite part of international travel, check out the Food Network's list of ten gourmet getaways... 1. Barcelona, Spain 2. Biarritz, France 3. Cape Town, South Africa 4. Dublin, Ireland 5. Edinburgh, Scotland 6. Ko Samui, Thailand 7. Maui, Hawaii 8. Oaxaca, Mexico 9. San Juan, Puerto Rico 10. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/28/10-great-culinary-adventures/ For the 21st year, Working Mother has complied a report on the family-friendliest companies in America. In compiling the report, the magazine solicited applications consisting of 550 questions. Working Mother used five main criteria as the basis for its judgments: flexibility, leave time for new parents, child care, elder care ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/28/top-100-companies-for-working-moms-2006/ Do you know the best way to carve a turkey or remove a wine, wax, or grease stain from a tablecloth or shirt? What about the most efficient way to paint a room? Or the proper way to tie a tie? Martha Stewart assembled all 30 hints and techniques in ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/28/30-things-everyone-should-know-how-to-do/ Entertainment Weekly magazine recently assembled their picks for the 50 best high school movies. The top 10 films are listed below. Check out EW.com for details about all 50... 1. The Breakfast Club (1985) 2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 3. Dazed and Confused (1993) 4. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 5. Heathers (1989) 6. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/28/entertainment-weeklys-50-best-high-school-movies/ Each year, BtoBOnline.com provides a behind-the-scenes look at 10 b-to-b Web sites that excel at communicating with customers and prospects. These sites offer in-depth information about products, services and the company. They are easy to navigate, enabling users to find what they want quickly and efficiently. Their design is clean ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/27/10-great-b2b-web-sites-2/ Readers of Spa Finder publications and the Spafinder.com Web site have chosen Arizona's Miraval, Life in Balance as their "favorite spa" in North America for 2006. Other favorites around the world were Sante Winelands Hotel and Wellness Center in Paarl, South Africa; Chiva-Som in Hua Hin, Thailand; Brenner's Park ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/21/the-best-spas-in-the-world/ To determine this year’s Hot List list, Adweek evaluated sites that create content, as opposed to aggregating it. The top ten list includes four sites that rely, for the most part or in whole, on user-generated content, the biggest online trend advertisers currently face. Adweek reviewed data on approximately 400 ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/19/adweeks-website-hot-list-2006/ ViralVideoChart.com scans several million blogs a day to see which online videos people are talking about the most. They look for references to videos on the three most influential video sharing sites: YouTube, Google Video and MySpace. Viral Video Chart counts the number of times each video is linked to ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/18/the-worlds-most-talked-about-videos/ The Walt Disney Co. landed the No. 1 spot on BusinessWeek's "Best Places to Launch a Career" ranking. Disney's strong on-campus recruiting, solid benefits, and collaborative culture helped put the entertainment giant at the head of the BusinessWeek ranking, which identifies top employers for new college graduates. BusinessWeek analyzed feedback ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/14/top-55-places-to-start-a-new-career/ The American Bus Association's Top 100 Events in North America is an annual compendium of the best events for group travel in the United States and Canada. Each spring, a committee of ABA-member motorcoach and tour operators selects the top 100 events for the subsequent year; the list is unveiled ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/14/100-best-events-in-north-america-2007/ The Motley Fool has compiled a list of the top ten performing stocks of the past decade. Read the full article... 1. Hansen Natural 2. Christopher & Banks 3. Daktronics 4. Chico's 5. NVR 6. Celgene 7. Frontier Oil 8. Meritage Homes 9. Expeditors International 10. Yahoo! http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/14/the-markets-10-best-stocks-of-the-past-decade/ The Princeton review's annual college rankings based on survey of 115,000 students is now out in "Best 361 Colleges - 2007 Edition". The book's full ranking lists are also posted on PrincetonReview.com... * #1 School for Undergraduate Academics -- Univ. of Chicago (Chicago, IL) * Best Professors -- Middlebury College (Middlebury VT) * ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/06/best-361-college-rankings/ Interested in dressing better and shopping smarter? Lucky magazine has created a directory of their 200 favorite sites for online shopping, from A to Z... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/03/directory-of-luckys-favorite-shopping-websites/ Education rankings were released this month by the U.S. Census Bureau. CNNMoney.com took a look at American cities with the highest concentration of college degrees. If you equate education with intelligence, then the smartest city in the United States is Seattle - 52.7% of its residents age 25 or older ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/02/americas-top-25-smartest-cities/ Domino magazine has collected their favorite websites for stylish living and created an online "black book" of the best places to shop for home decorating, entertaining, gardening, renovating ideas, and gifts worth giving. Check out the list... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/09/01/great-list-of-home-decorating-sites/ Thanks to terminal makeovers executed with business travelers in mind, layovers are becoming a less hellish experience. To find out which airports are the most business-friendly, Business 2.0 quizzed travelers, analyzed stats, and cross-checked passenger polls. Read the full story... * Minneapolis-St. Paul International (MSP) * Charlotte Douglas International (CLT) * Denver International ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/29/the-5-best-airports-for-business-travelers/ GQ magazine has compiled a list of the "20 Hamburgers You Must Eat Before You Die." Food critic Alan Richman traveled 23,750 miles and consumed more than 150,000 calories while evaluating 162 burgers across the country. The top 10 burger locations are listed below. Read the full article for details ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/29/20-hamburgers-you-must-eat-before-you-die/ Popular men's lifestyle portal AskMen.com features their pick for the coolest site on the web each day... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/29/askmencoms-cool-site-of-the-day/ Each year, Inc. magazine produces the Inc. 500, a list of the nation's fastest growing private companies. Learn about this year's top 25 companies, discover success stories of some of this year's honorees, or take the Inc. 500 quiz to test your knowledge of lists past and present... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/29/incs-fastest-growing-private-companies-2006/ NewYorkMag.com recently researched and compiled their first-ever Star Map. The addresses were culled from publicly available real-estate records, selected published reports, and widely used Internet directories as well as the occasional in-the-know friend or well-placed source. NY mag opted not to print specific addresses. But you can still see, generally ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/22/the-ultimate-nyc-celebrity-homes-map/ The Fine Living Cable Network has selected the Ten Perfect Places to Live in America. Check them out... 1. Downtown, New York City 2. Grand Marais, Minnesota 3. Austin, Texas 4. Portland, Maine 5. Santa Barbara, California 6. Sedona, Arizona 7. Seattle, Washington 8. Saratoga Springs, New York 9. Jupiter, Florida 10. Salida, Colorado http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/20/10-perfect-places-to-live-in-america/ U.S.News & World Report today announced the publication of its 2007 America's Best Colleges guide. America's Best Colleges is a comprehensive guide to colleges and college admissions -- detailing and ranking more than 1,400 accredited four-year schools across the country. View the survey results... Best National Universities 1. Princeton University 2. Harvard University 3. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/19/america%e2%80%99s-best-colleges-2007/ College grads often flock to New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago to start their careers. But they'd be far better off in Washington D.C., Phoenix and Las Vegas. Forbes.com ranked the largest 100 metropolitan areas according to their unemployment rates, cost of living, median household income, job ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/16/the-best-us-cities-to-find-a-job/ Birdwatcher Don Roberson of Monterey, California has compiled a list of the 50 Best Birds of the World. Criteria: how impressive, unique, rare, and hard to find each bird is. He included a diverse selection across continents and oceans, and throughout the spectrum of bird families. #1 is the Philippine Eagle. ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/16/the-50-best-birds-in-the-world/ From arts to shopping, from time wasters to time savers, TIME picks its annual list of the 50 coolest sites... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/14/times-50-coolest-websites-2006/ IBM's first PC was announced on August 12, 1981. To commemorate the anniversary, PCWorld.com's editors compiled a list of the top 25 PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of. PC World made their selection based on four factors: innovation, impact, industrial design, and ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/12/the-25-greatest-pcs-of-all-time/ In Premiere magazine's list, you'll see 50 embodiments of that most indefinable term, star quality. You'll see male sex symbols who are undeniably Adonis-like, and others who are not nearly as refined in the physical-feature department but could still make their targets melt. You'll see a squeaky-clean singer with a ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/10/the-50-greatest-movie-stars-all-time/ AskMen.com has compiled their list of the Top 200 Albums of All Time. The guide contains 10 different genres of music, and within them, the 20 best artists that have carved out their spot in music history. The lists are based on sales, originality, impact on genre, influence on fans, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/10/the-top-200-albums-of-all-time/ The Esquire Cover Gallery contains every magazine cover from Autumn, 1933 until the present. You can navigate the cover gallery archive by year and month... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/10/857-esquire-magazine-covers-since-1933/ Following, in alphabetical order, are the Mayo Clinic's top picks. These 10 foods are some of the healthiest because they meet at least three of the following criteria... 1. Apples 2. Almonds 3. Broccoli 4. Blueberries 5. Red beans 6. Salmon 7. Spinach 8. Sweet potatoes 9. Vegetable juice 10. Wheat germ http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/09/10-great-health-foods/ PodcastBunker.com finds and lists the best podcasts, taking audio quality and the value of the content into consideration. The site offers podcast reviews and 30 second previews to help you decide what you want to hear... Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Podcasting works the ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/07/list-of-the-best-podcasts/ FilmCritic.com has posted a roundup of the top 50 movie endings of all time. Check out the full list... 1. Dr. Strangelove (1964) 2. Fight Club (1999) 3. Chinatown (1974) 4. Casablanca (1942) 5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 6. Boogie Nights (1997) 7. Night of the Living Dead (1968) 8. Big Night (1996) 9. Don't Look Now (1973) 10. Some ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/03/the-top-50-movie-endings-of-all-time/ The International Best-Dressed list was created in the 1940s by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. Before Ms. Lambert died in 2003 at age 100, she passed it on to Vanity Fair, with the idea that the magazine would continue publishing an annual list. Eleanor started the best-dressed list in New York ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/08/01/the-international-best-dressed-list-hall-of-fame/ As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Check out the list of new media moguls from WSJ.com. Categories include podcasts, amateur video, social networking, music, blogging, photography, TV and film... Or click ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/30/new-media-power-list/ The blue skies over Rio de Janeiro have been voted the best in the world, according to a new survey from travel site Expedia.com. The company made a list of the world's top 20 blue skies, taking into account factors such as colour and density. The analysis was compiled by ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/30/the-best-blue-sky-in-the-world/ BusinessWeek Online asked over 30 prominent professors and business professionals about their favorite books, business or otherwise. The resulting list is a diverse tip sheet with something for everyone -- from Kotler to Kerouac, fantasy to finance. Browse around and discover what made these books inspirational, instructive, or influential in their ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/30/favorite-books-of-successful-people/ Most everyone has a cell phone, but many people don't know that they may be employing the wrong cell phone provider. If you're into text and picture messaging, T-Mobile may be the best choice for you. Absolute coverage a must? You may want to stick with Verizon. Your personal needs ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/29/cellular-services-comparison/ Denver-Boulder defends its No. 1 spot on Forbes.com's sixth annual ranking of America's "Best Cities For Singles." This marks the third consecutive year in first place for the Denver-Boulder metro area. Boston is still hot at No. 2, garnering top scores for "coolness" and online dating, a new measure this ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/29/40-best-cities-for-singles/ Google, Starbucks, Motorola, and eBay are among this year's top gainers in BusinessWeek's annual ranking of The Best Global Brands. For the sixth consecutive year, BusinessWeek has teamed up with Interbrand, a leading brand consultancy, to publish a ranking of the top 100 global brands by brand value. The Best ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/28/the-100-best-global-brands/ Food & Wine magazine's annual Best New Chef awards honor exceptionally talented men and women who are pushing culinary boundaries in America. Meet this year's winners and try their recipes... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/23/americas-best-new-chefs-2006/ Fort Collins, Colorado is the best place to live in America, according to the editors of Money magazine. Why? Great schools, low crime, good jobs in a high-tech economy and a fantastic outdoor life. See Money's full list of winners, including detailed city stats and maps... 1. Fort Collins, CO 2. Naperville, ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/17/americas-best-places-to-live-2006/ Fifty years old this month, the album chart has tracked the history of pop. But only a select few records have actually altered the course of music. To mark the anniversary, The Observer's panel of critics picked 50 albums that caused a revolution. The Velvet Underground & Nico topped out ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/17/50-albums-that-changed-music/ The hottest content on MSN.com: Most popular headlines, top videos, sports, greeting cards, tech, people searches, money makers, most downloaded songs, and top movies... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/16/msncoms-hot-list/ Holden Caulfield and the Cat in the Hat? Scarlett O'Hara and "Boo" Radley? They might not seem to have much in common, but they're all on Book magazine's list of the 100 best fictional characters of the 20th century. View the full list... 1. Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott ... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/16/100-best-characters-in-fiction-since-1900/ Browse The New York Times best seller lists, book reviews and news for authors, fiction and non-fiction, literature, biographies, memoirs, children's books, science fiction, and self-help. On NYtimes.com, the best selling book lists are available one week ahead of the print edition of the Book Review... http://gr8list.com/blog2/2006/07/15/the-new-york-times-best-selling-book-lists/