rogerebert.com The year's ten best films
Esteemed film critic, Roger Ebert, checks in with his list of the best movies of 2007. The list contains his top 20 favorite movies, along with his favourite documentaries, animated movies and foreign films.
Culturite : The Best ‘Best of’ Lists of 2007
Here are 25 different lists with the "Best Of 2007":
101 Simple Appetizers in 20 Minutes or Less :New York Times
From the NY Times, "Minimalist" Mark Bittman has a list of simple, but gourmet appetizers to prepare, just in time for the Christmas season.
Instructions/ recipes are short, but to the point.
A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
The 53 Places to Go in 2008 : New York Times
Because I know that many Linkjockey readers are looking for a new global tourist destination for each week of 2007, why not check out what the New York Times is predicting.
Which travel destinations and resorts are "hot" for 2008? Combining countries, regions, cities and neighbourhoods in their Top 53, the results are definitely diverse, but there is an emphasis on destinations with brand new high end resorts.
The Top 10 are:
1 LAOS
2 LISBON
3 TUNISIA
4. MAURITIUS
5. MID-BEACH, MIAMI
6. SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI
7. MALDIVES
8. DEATH VALLEY
9. COURCHEVEL
10. LIBYA
30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do
Educate yourself about the proposed Canadian Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), which looks to be even more restrictive than the current American counterpart. While the current legislation is widely seen as being fair and appropriate, Michael Geist has a list of 30 ways that you can make your opinions known about the draconian changes to the Canadian DMCA that tilt control toward the biggest corporate media companies.
Michael Geist is the best Canadian journalist covering digital media issues, such as copyright, DRM and the Internet. He is also not afraid of calling things as they are.
The 15 tools every homeowner should own
Christmas time is around the corner, and people are going to start asking me for my Christmas list soon. There's not too much "stuff" out there that jumps to mind, but I remember seeing this list of 15 essential tools that would help me fill-in the holes in my toolkit.
Now I'm not a homeowner yet, but I do get a secret thrill when I'm able to use my tools to build or fix things.
I'm also using this list of essential kitchen tools to build that Christmas list.
Conde Nast Readers' Choice Awards 2007
While Conde Nast is more of a luxury travel magazine (I normally prefer the budget travel), their readers have spoken and made their choices for the best travel destinations of 2007.
The categories are Top Cities, Top Islands, Top Transportation, Top Hotels and Top Resorts, and are divided up by region.
Yes, Vancouver, Victoria and many of the BC Resorts rated highly in the Americas surveys.
So where are the best hostels and best cheap flights?
25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Your Ultimate DIY Guide
Some pretty hard-core tips from Popular Mechanics magazine.
October 15 is Blog Action Day; one day when blogs focus on ways to address climate change and the environment. Here are some of the best ones that I've come across.
Lifehacker: 10 Easy Ways to Live Greener
Instigator Blog: How Entrepreneurs Can Help Save the Environment
Freelance Switch - 29 Simple Ways to Become a More Environmentally Friendly Freelancer (+ Help Us Donate $500 to Charity!)
Liveability: Where the grass is greener - Economist.com
The statistics are in for the annual Economist ranking of the World's Most Livable Cities. Vancouver scores the top spot this year, and Australian cities do very well too. The article has the list of the Top 10 Best Cities, as well as the Worst 10 Cities. Now if we could only get our hockey team to perform like the best in the world.
Today's Link source: Digg
75 Simple Pleasures to Brighten Your Day zen habits
It's summer time. Take some time to relax and unwind with some of these great ideas from zen habits. Enjoy moments in life instead of racing through them.
Today's Link source: popurls
The Top 25 Home-Based Business Ideas
This list comes from Yahoo! Business, which includes lots of great, but more traditional, home-based businesses. Some of the jobs include Caterer, Personal Trainer, Consultant Remodeler, and Interior Decorator. This list is a good reminder that just because a job is "home-based" doesn't necessarily mean that it is a stay-at-home job or an internet-based job. All of the businesses here are proven, and most of them are scalable.
Today's Link source: popurls.com
The Linkjockey updates have been spotty over the past few days, but this should keep you busy in the mean time.
After some initial troubles with their post, PC World published a list of 100 Blogs We Love. Yes, there are some of the usual suspects, such as: Boing Boing , Lifehacker and 43 Folders. However, there's also the hidden gems, such as: the hilarious I Can Has Cheezburger, the culinary Slashfood, and for cool parents Daddytypes. It seems like they missed one great blog, the Linkjockey. ;)
Today's Link source: Kottke
15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever
Even though I wasn't a big fan of Mister Rogers as a child, this article from Mental Floss really changed my mind about him.
Mister Rogers saved American public television?
He was an ordained minister? Who knew?
He's an easy target for derision from the cooler-than-you kids, but maybe those "boring" children's shows about respecting other people are better than the "exciting", violent 30-minute commercials that sell expensive toys.
The world will miss him.
Today's Link source: popurls
It's Music Tuesday at Linkjockey HQ, and today we have a collection of mash-up links.
Mashups are a musical genre where unrelated songs are remixed together in new ways, often without the permission of the original artists. While music fans are growing increasingly frustrated with major labels, and the bland offerings on commercial radio, edgy mashups are pushing boundaries and generating excitement by breathing new life into old songs.
Here are 12 music mashup sites with free downloads.
General
The Hood Internet
Great Mashup artist that posts awesome new tracks every few days. Highlights include R.Kelly and Broken Social Scene, Justice and Destiny’s Child, and Ghostface Killah (from Wu Tang Clan) and Spoon.
Splice Music
A DIY community formed around mashups for artists, with sample exchanges, forums and finished remixes. Go, go remix culture!
Get Your Bootleg On
A forum with recommendations and links to mashups, compilations and DJ mixes. Registration required.
good blimey
Streaming audio site, with over 2,700 mashups available for listening and free download.
Danger Mouse – The Grey Album
Before he was Crazy in Gnarls Barkley, DJ Danger Mouse was creating a firestorm by “illegally” remixing the Beatles and Jay-Z in the Grey Album.
Q-Unit
Mashup of 50 Cent with operatic hair-rockers, Queen, repeating the successful theme of mixing current hiphop lyrics with classic rock instrumentation.
Mashup Town
A blog that tracks the latest mash-ups, big and small, with links to free downloads.
Mash-up artists
Party Ben
Mash-up artist, featuring The Police vs Snow Patrol in “Every Car You Chase”.
CCC mashups
DJ Earworm
Featuring Stairway to Bootleg Heaven.
The Godfathers of Mashups
Negativland
Negativland got banned and sued for their classic mashup of U2 with Casey Kasem.
John Oswald
Before Negativland, there was Canadian, John Oswald, who made Plunderphonics, which are really intricate mashup albums with bits of tape.
Today’s Link source: Metafilter
20 Productive Ways to Use Your Free Time
Ahhhh, free time. I wish I had more of it, but then I'm always a little stunned when I have a few minutes for myself with "nothing to do". Maybe keeping this list handy will help me take care of those loose ends when there's a few minutes to spare.
Thanks LifeHack! You're always reliable.
Today's Link source: Amanda Congdon
RIAA Radar Charts: RIAA Radar Indie 100
RIAA Radar Indie 100 is the music chart of the top 100 most popular, non-RIAA cds on amazon.com, and it's updated daily.
Regular readers of Linkjockey (Hi Jake!) might know that I love music, but I'm not a fan of the Record Labels' mega consortium. I've made a personal choice not to purchase any music this year from the major labels because of their dirty tactics. Instead, I'm downloading music legally for free on the net, and supporting independent musicians and labels wherever I can. Today's link will help me in this quest.
Today's Link source: Reddit
