What to read, watch, listen to, do. Who's the best/worst. What's known, what's the law what's good/bad/great/verboten. How's the economy doing. Where to go to school, to live. How to organize things, get what we want, and other stuff.
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Literature |
Movies |
Music |
Sports |
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Modern Library's "100 Best Novels" 100 famous novels with catchy first lines Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43, |
Sight and sound poll of greatest films of all time ranker.com Best-movies-of-all-time (my list) |
Rolling Stone's 500-greatest-songs-of-all-time National Public Radio Lists |
Major League Baseball National Football League National Basketball Association |
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Advice |
Science (sort of) |
Organizational / Taxonomies |
Misc |
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The Dewey Decimal System / Library of Congress Classification Outline To do lists / Checklist (link to New Yorker article) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (link to New Yorker article) Robert's Rules of Order / Craigslist Jorge Luis Borges' Chinese Encyclopedia Animal Taxonomy |
* really more than a list; it's a table!
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Lists that literally laid down the law |
Effective Branding/ Marketing |
Political |
Lists of lists |
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The New York Times' best-sellers list / The F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted list |
Wikipedia's List of lists of lists The Hundred Best Lists of All Time ranker.com: crowdranked best and worst of everything Listverse: Top 10 Lists / list25 (1 million YouTube subscribers!) / |
Questions:
The bottom two tables divide up column widths proportionally, but the top doesn't. Why is "Literature" so wide and "Sports" so narrow?
Steven F. Freeman