The Top 50 Things, as selected by Mike Sugarbaker
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  1. That's right: it's the Street Hawk fan site.
  2. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen, by Alton Brown
  3. Lay's Salt and Vinegar flavor potato chips
  4. Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
  5. Yo La Tengo, The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (I was at the show!)
  6. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
  7. Optiganally Yours, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours
  8. The Work of Director Michel Gondry (DVD)
  9. Death Cab For Cutie, Something About Airplanes
  10. Elephone, The Shivering
  11. The Name Of The World, by Denis Johnson
  12. It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Further Adventures Of The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten
  13. The New Pornographers, Electric Version
  14. The Raymond Brake, Piles of Dirty Winters
  15. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
  16. Maker's Mark brand Kentucky bourbon
  17. REJECTED (DVD)
  18. Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  19. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts (Orbital meets Mogwai)
  20. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  21. tyranny/biology
  22. Does that thought ever get you anything? Why keep thinking it?
  23. Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
  24. 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale, New Belgium Brewing Company
  25. STUNT HAMSTERS
  26. Home Movies Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
  27. Schizopolis
  28. 20 Minute Loop, Yawn + House = Explosion
  29. MoonBase Commander is the most fun a grownup can find in the kids' software section (without being gross, anyway)
  30. Tillamook Swiss cheese slices
  31. www.wunderland.com I cannot overstate how incredible this site is. Check out the game designs. Read the cool elliptical comic. Look at the pictures of Rubik's Cube art and roller coasters. Buy a stuffed broccoli. Seize the time. Just do it. Et cetera.
  32. Stop Making Sense (DVD)
  33. Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  34. I'm Just Here For The Food, by Alton Brown
  35. The Believer
  36. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher

  37. What is a Geek?


  38. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd edition, by Danny Goodman
  40. Koyaanisqatsi
  41. Brunetto T-Shirts gives you the power. Unless they don't want to.
  42. This could mean starting a movement. Do you have that kind of time?
  43. You can see yourself the way others see you, if you allow yourself to be transformed by how they see you.Human behavior is mostly pretending.
  44. Shaolin Soccer
  45. Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
  46. Millennium: The Complete First Season DVD box set
  47. The turkey Dripper at Steve's
  48. Garlic fries should be had at Gordon Biersch or, perhaps, not at all
  49. brainstorms, a third place.
  50. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson

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