The Top 50 Things, as selected by Mike Sugarbaker
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  1. Millennium: The Complete First Season DVD box set
  2. MoonBase Commander is the most fun a grownup can find in the kids' software section (without being gross, anyway)
  3. Brunetto T-Shirts gives you the power. Unless they don't want to.
  4. Tillamook Swiss cheese slices
  5. Yo La Tengo, The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (I was at the show!)
  6. It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Further Adventures Of The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten
  7. 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.
  8. Lay's Salt and Vinegar flavor potato chips
  9. Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
  10. Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges
  11. Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
  12. STUNT HAMSTERS
  13. I'm Just Here For The Food, by Alton Brown
  14. Optiganally Yours, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours
  15. Stop Making Sense (DVD)
  16. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
  17. The New Pornographers, Electric Version
  18. 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale, New Belgium Brewing Company
  19. Death Cab For Cutie, Something About Airplanes
  20. brainstorms, a third place.
  21. This could mean starting a movement. Do you have that kind of time?
  22. Maker's Mark brand Kentucky bourbon
  23. Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Shake the Sheets
  24. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts (Orbital meets Mogwai)
  25. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
  26. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen, by Alton Brown
  27. The Work of Director Michel Gondry (DVD)
  28. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
  29. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  30. 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.
  31. That's right: it's the Street Hawk fan site.
  32. Elephone, The Shivering
  33. Does that thought ever get you anything? Why keep thinking it?
  34. Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  35. The Raymond Brake, Piles of Dirty Winters
  37. Is it that nothing like this existed before, or that I didn't know how to stumble into it accidentally?
  38. REJECTED (DVD)
  39. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd edition, by Danny Goodman
  40. Koyaanisqatsi
  41. The Name Of The World, by Denis Johnson
  42. Schizopolis
  43. The turkey Dripper at Steve's
  44. A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder
  45. The Work of Director Spike Jonze (DVD)
  46. The Believer

  47. What is a Geek?


  48. Neutral Milk Hotel, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
  49. Shaolin Soccer
  50. Prefuse 73, Extinguished: Outtakes, Alternate Takes and Beats from One Word Extinguisher

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