The Top 50 Things, as selected by Mike Sugarbaker
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  1. The Name Of The World, by Denis Johnson
  2. Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  3. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
  4. STUNT HAMSTERS
  5. Yo La Tengo, The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (I was at the show!)
  6. Shaolin Soccer
  7. Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
  8. The turkey Dripper at Steve's
  9. That's right: it's the Street Hawk fan site.
  10. Home Movies Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD
  11. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  12. Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
  13. Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
  14. Stop Making Sense (DVD)
  15. It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Further Adventures Of The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten
  16. The Believer
  17. The New Pornographers, Electric Version
  18. The Work of Director Michel Gondry (DVD)
  19. Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  20. 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale, New Belgium Brewing Company
  21. Koyaanisqatsi
  22. The Work of Director Spike Jonze (DVD)
  23. tyranny/biology
  24. 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.
  25. Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
  27. I'm Just Here For The Food, by Alton Brown
  28. Tillamook Swiss cheese slices
  29. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd edition, by Danny Goodman
  30. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts (Orbital meets Mogwai)
  31. 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.
  32. 20 Minute Loop, Yawn + House = Explosion
  33. Does that thought ever get you anything? Why keep thinking it?
  34. MoonBase Commander is the most fun a grownup can find in the kids' software section (without being gross, anyway)
  35. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
  36. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher
  37. Schizopolis
  38. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen, by Alton Brown
  39. The first DVD I got myself wasn't Lord of the Rings, or even the once-obligatory Matrix. It was Waking Life.
  40. Is it that nothing like this existed before, or that I didn't know how to stumble into it accidentally?

  41. What is a Geek?


  42. Optiganally Yours, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours
  43. brainstorms, a third place.
  44. This could mean starting a movement. Do you have that kind of time?
  45. Lay's Salt and Vinegar flavor potato chips
  46. Millennium: The Complete First Season DVD box set
  47. Prefuse 73, Extinguished: Outtakes, Alternate Takes and Beats from One Word Extinguisher
  48. Death Cab For Cutie, Something About Airplanes
  49. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
  50. Garlic fries should be had at Gordon Biersch or, perhaps, not at all

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