Best of Almost But Not Quite Everything
Best Films, Documentaries, Books, Social Networking, and Websites and A whole Bunch of Other Best Stuff on The Web
The films were chosen due to there ability to prophesize what has already happened or may yet happen, films that are profound or true or real, films that are unique or ironic. These are essentially important films in one way or another, with an important statement on the current state of humankind, human psychology or the potential future for humankind or the psychology of the human animal. Some of these films are about the psychology of people and others are about the combined psychologies of people living together in a family or a city or a nation, hence they are about sociology and politics.
The Books are books I have in my library and have read or partially read, and have placed on my Shelfari website and Library Thing website.
The websites were culled from my favorites, my Stumbleupon page, and various best of website lists. I have viewed and used, even if only momentarily, all of these sites.
Best Film Books
TimeOut Film Guide (Year)
This book has reviews of 18,000 films and includes a list of the top 100 film websites at the front of the book. Website is: http://www.timeout.com/film/
Videohounds Golden Movie Retriever (Year)
What Videohound is categorize films by a large number of categories that you won’t find elsewhere, such as zombies, teen love, etc. They also list by cast, director, and several different type of awards. But they don’t have a website. The amazon book address is: http://www.amazon.com/Videohounds-Golden-Movie-Retriever-2010/dp/1414422180
For a list of the top 100 filmsites on line go to: http://www.100topkid.com/?cat=Movies
This site has top 100 sites in several categories.
Another good list of the top 100 coolest film sites is: http://www.fadeinonline.com/cage/topfilmsites.html
Roger Eberts Movie Yearbook (Year)
Roger Eberts Four Star Movie Reviews of the 2000’s website: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/13860 There are 266 films on this list.
This site has lists of the best in several categories other than film.
Roger Eberts Four Star Reviews 1967 – 2007. It appears on Google Books at:
http://books.google.com/books
and type in Roger Eberts four star reviews in the search box..
Of course, Roger has his own site: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/
Best Movie Review Websites
http://Aintitcool.com
Harry Knowles site is about a lot more than movie reviews. Contains chat lines, forums, discussions, Harry’s reviews, upcoming movies not out yet, where to get novelties, graphic novels, merchandise, etc. Harry is not your traditional reviewer. Written in a cool style for a younger audience. Harry does not condescend. He speaks cool.
http://Rottentomatoes.com
This site does not give out very many good reviews. Looks for the worst it can find in a movie. And reviews many bad movies that you won’t find reviewed elsewhere.
http://MRQE.com
This is not really a movie review site. It is a portal to find movie reviews. Type in a movie title and you will get a list of movie reviews. Click on one to get that particular review. Also has several articles on movies.
http://Metacritic.com
This site only reviews new movies and dvds, and does not give complete reviews, but is good for seeing the average review (in terms of a number) from all of the critics who reviewed the movie and it gives brief synopsis reviews from each critic. Metareviews are good if you are looking only for the very best movies or very worst, i.e. where there was a concensus, but do not help for movies in between. Movie critics do not universally agree, and in fact, very often disagree.
http://IMDB.com
The premier movie site. Not only leads you to movie reviews, but tells you everything you want to know about the movie such as cast, director, sound, editing, awards, etc. Almost every movie will have pictures and most will have some trailers. You can put your favorites in your own personal database so you can go back to them later.
http://Rogerebert.com
Perhaps the slickest design. Dedicated to Roger Eberts reviews of movies. Contains his annual contest to win a trip for two to some famous place.
http://Indiewire.com
http://Defamer.com
http://Independentfilmreviews.com
http://Cinematical.com
http://Indiefilmspot.com
Video Streaming
http://Atomfilms.com
http://Netflix.com
http://Wonderland.com
http://Buttermouth.com
http://Graboidvideo.com
http://Hulu.com
http://Veoh.com
Movie critics
http://Metacritic.com
Online film magazines
http://Cinemascope.com
http://Villagevoice.com
Online Sales and Trading of DVDs
Ebay
Buy.com
Half.com
Amazon.com
DVD Empire
DVD Planet
eCampus
Title Trader
Zunafish
Deep Discount
Criterion.com
Dvdbeaver.com
Mastersofcinema.org
Film Festivals
http://www.filmfestivals.com/index.shtml
Websites With Lists of The Best Films – From 100 to 1,000
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/1000best.html
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/movies.aspx
http://www.filmsite.org/
http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Best Science Fiction Films
Sphere
Existenz
Dark City
The 13th Floor
The Matrix
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove
The Ghost in the Shell
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Avatar (to be released in December 2009)
The Abyss
Terminator 2
Dune (The TV Series not the movie)
Contact
Blade Runner
Gattaca
The Truman Show
Alien
A Clockwork Orange
WALL-E
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Andromeda Strain (both the original and the remake)
The Man From Earth
Documentaries
Websites on Documentaries:
Nfb.com
Documentaryfilms.net
Freedocumentaries.net
Netflix.com
Freeonlinedocumentary.com
Actual Documentaries
Corn
The Fog of War
Super Size Me
Sicko
Capitalism: A Love Story
Lake of Fire
Uncounted
Recount
The 11th Hour
Ecopolis (a series)
Planet Earth (a series)
Future Visions (a series)
Crude Impact
Food, Inc.
Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room
Born Into Brothels
Hearts and Minds
The Thin Blue Line
An Inconvenient Truth
Fahrenheit 9/11
Woodstock
The Times of Harvey Milk
March of the Penguins (Think about their commitment to community)
Crumb
American Movie
Streetwise
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdochs War on Journalism
The War At Home
Harlan County, USA
The Alzheimers Project
Outrage
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Something the Lord Made
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Celibacy
Death on a Factory Farm
Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card
Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Murder On a Sunday Morning
Pandemic: Facing Aids
Shock Video
Too Hot Not Too Handle
Wide Awake
The Yes Men Fix The World
Youth Knows No Pain
Films Based On A True Story/Biography
Platoon
JFK
Nixon
The Wolf of Wall Street (due out in 2010)
The Informant
Amelia
Boys Don’t Cry
Far Away Home
Shattered Glass
Milk
Into the Wild
Ali
Ray
Raging Bull
The Hurricane
Goodfellas
Catch Me If You Can
Casino
Schindlers List
All The Presidents Men
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Brasco
American Gangster
Monster
Fargo
A Rivers Edge
Frida
Ghosts of Mississippi
Murder In The First
The Doors
Gandhi
Erin Brochovich
Seabisquit
E-Books and Readers
There are basically three E book readers that are the most popular
The Sony E-Book Reader
The Amazon Kindle (a couple of versions)
The Barnes and Nobles Nook
Amazon and B&N sell E-books for up to $10 each online through their websites. Bargains can be found for $1 to $5. Barnes and Nobles has a format that allows you to read their E books on any computer or on their reader, the Nook. To read on a computer, you download their free software.
E-Books in standard adobe pdf format are also available from many public libraries as well as some websites. Some of the websites are:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-6-sites-to-get-free-ebooks/
http://free-ebook-download.org//
http://www.free-ebooks.net/
Best Websites
There are 100 million unique websites out there. I have attempted to find the best ones in a huge range of categories. While I give tags for each site, I can not evaluate or critique all of these in a short amount of time. But stay tuned. I will try to provide more info. on each site in a future update.
Overall Best Places To Look
http://www.worldbestwebsites.com/
This above site is organized into several categories with lists of the best websites in each category. One category worth mentioning is Best Search Engines. Google is not the only one, and there are unique search engines to help you accomplish what you want in academic situations as well as search engines that poll multiple search engines to get what you are looking for.
For now, we can start with the best lists of websites or the best search engines.
Stumbleupon – This site allows you to pick and choose your own list of categories and subcategories of websites. It is a well organized hierarchy, which allows you to really refine your interests. Then you click on the search button. But instead of evaluating the entire web, this site looks at the network of other stumbleupon users and what they have rated to decide what you see. When viewing sites, you can pick a single category or all categories in your list. Once you have enough favorite sites, which you assemble by giving a thumbs up or down to each site, Stumbleupon will recommend other members and if you like a stumblers list of sites you can subscribe to them, meaning you now have access to their entire list and their reviews of each site. After awhile, Stumbleupon will show you what percent of each stumblers list that you both have in common so you can further refine who you think best matches up with your interests. Each member has a profile. So if you subscribe to a persons favorites and they also subscribe to yours, you become friends. You will find the most unique and amazing sites by using Stumbleupon.
Springo.com - This site categorizes websites in a hierarchical manner and provides a visually appealing interface to help you pick sites to look at. You are just going to have to try this to understand it. There goal is to find the top 100 sites in each category.
Tbwe.com This stands for the best website ever. You vote online for your best website in any number of categories and the results are used to create a database of user submitted/voted on websites organized in a hierarchical manner by category and subcategory.
Mashable.com has an article entitled 5,000 resources to do just about anything online. Embedded in it are lists of websites for each of several categories, such as blogs, bloggers, website hosting, etc.
http://mashable.com/2007/09/08/5000-resources-to-do-just-about-anything-online/
Some search engines actually scan multiple search engines for you and then put together a list for you from all of these search engines. For example, you look for cats. It scans google, yahoo, digg, whatever and puts all of the results together into one reponse. A couple of these meta search sites are search.com and alexa.com.
There are several others.
Each year, Time Magazine published its list of the top 50 websites of the year. They have been doing this for about 5 years now. When you go to their site for this, you can see details on each site and a link to bring you to the site.
There are hundreds of social networking sites out there. The top two are Facebook and MySpace. But there are hundreds more in several specialized categories. Recently, Mashable published on their site a list of the top 350 social networking sites by category, such as general, pet lovers, you name it. Here is the link to that article.
http://mashable.com/2007/10/23/social-networking-god/
100 Best Online Tools To Feed Your Creativity
Sometimes getting good ideas is just a matter of finding them lurking just beyond your current thoughts. Use these tools to seek out ideas and get them organized so they are working for you. Brainstorming, mindmapping, organizing on-line tools.
http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/04/28/100-excellent-online-tools-to-feed-your-creativity//
Without further interruption, here is my list of the best websites on the web.
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Coolonlinetools.com
Truthorfiction.com
Politifact.com
Snopes.com
Lies.com
Reuters.com
Vote7.com
Beelinetv.com
Cartype.com
Soundike.com
Scirus.com
Sciencedaily.com
Springwise.com
Nationmaster.com
Makeuseof.com
Livingroutes.com
Worldprocessor.com
Englishscholar.com
Medicalstudent.com
Humanmetrics.com
Awea.com
Flickr.com
Friedbeef.com
Worklessparty.com
Soundsleeping.com
Vegan.org
Addictinggames.com
Onlinecollegedegree.com
Musicovery.com
Veoh.com
Techradar.com
Thememoryhole.org
Theonion.com
Fossilfreedom.com
Asifproductions.com
Pelfusion.com
Systems-thinking.org
Nejm.org
Factcheck.org
Placesforwriters.com
Polldaddy.com
Contexts.org
Scienceblogs.com
Huffingtonpost.com
Tantricplanet.com
Disinfo.com
Livejournal.com
Socialistworker.org
Revisemri.com
Dailygalaxy.com
Current.com
Commondreams.org
Tumblr.com
Thecolorawards.com
Deviantart.com
Filmsite.org
Livescience.com
Wired.com
Lavendarliberal.com
Mashable.com
Digg.com
Alternet.org
Photoshoparchive.com
Imgfavae.com
Urbandictionary.com
IMDB.com
IMSDB.com
Shelfari.com
Librarything.com
Stumbleupon.com
Myspace.com
Dailycensored.com
Projectcensored.com
Infowars.com
Mediafreedominternational.com
Psychcentral
TripKick
WikiTravel
Zeer
Afrigadget
AskMen
WebMD
Health
RateMyProfessors
SeriousEats
MapJack
SearchMe
TinyURL
Mobaganda
UrbanDictionary
Hulu
Imeem
GaiaOnline
Kiva
WikiSky
CaliforniaCoastline
ProjectVulcan
Delicious
Metafilter
Skype
AcademicEarth
Wolfram/Alpha
Vimeo
ForaTV
Amazon
Netflix
Wikipedia
Metacritic
Pollster
Pandora
Yelp
Snopes
Couchsurfing
Photosynth
OMGPOP
WorldWideTelescope
Fonolo
Search.com
Alexa.com
Earthcam.com
About.com
Reference.com
Beliefnet.com
Mayoclinic.com
Altmedicine.com
Citysearch.com
Sciam.com
Nature.com
Allposters.com
Mapquest.com
Rottentomatoes.com
Guttenberg.net
Bestofbloggers.com
Intuit.com
Problogger.net
Democraticunderground.com
Prospect.org
Docudhama.com
Krugman.blogs.nytimes.com
Progressiveblue.com
Listography.com
43things.com
Ask500people.com
Liberaloasis.com blogs
Liberaloasis.com is an extensive list of political socioeconomic blogs and satirical humor blogs embedded in the site. Plus a full list of liberal internet radio stations.
Jooce.com
Mox.com
Criminalsearches.com
Damninteresting.com
Viewzi.com
Searchme.com
Imeem.com
Kongregate.com
Fffound.com
Songaza.com
Thesmokinggun.com
Taggalaxy.de
Wolfgangsvault.com
Dating Sites
OKCupid.com free
Plentyoffish.com free
Datingabout.com
Freedatingsites.com
Allsinglesnet.com free
Singlesnet.com free
Directoryofdating.com
Truebeginnings.com
EHarmony.com
Match.com
Chemistry.com
Clubplanet.com
Myspace.com
Loveplanet.com
Friendsover50.com
Babyboomerspeoplemeet.com
Meetin.org
Meetup.com
Freedatingusa.com free
Seniorfriend.com
Datehookup.com free
Jumpdates.com free
Mingle2.com free
Datingsitewiz.com free
BEWARE: When using dating sites, beware of spam. It varies from site to site but there is no site totally free of spam. Spam means people who don’t really exist or are trying to get money from you.
Alternative Truths or Realitys, Myth Exposing
Truthorfiction.com
Politifact.com
Snopes.com
Lies.com
National Health Care Sites
Rrcentral.com/careplans/100_best_health_care_policy_blogs
Thehealthcareblog.com
Pnhp.com
Nchc.com
Best Transportation, Public Transit, and Railroad Sites
And Climate Change and Renewable Energy Sites
The Five Best Mass Transit Cities in the World
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/green-living/free-ride-the-five-best-mass-transit-systems-worldwide/1095
The Top 100 Transportation Websites
http://www.world.org/weo/transportation
The Top 100 Climate Change Websites
http://www.world.org/weo/climate
The Top 100 Renewable Energy Websites
http://www.world.org/weo/energy
Links to over 5,000 Railroad Websites
http://www.railroaddata.com/
Rail Links – The Definitive Directory of Rail Websites
http://www.raillinks.com/
About Project Vulcan
The Vulcan Project is a NASA/DOE funded effort under the North American Carbon Program (NACP) to quantify North American fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at space and time scales much finer than has been achieved in the past. The purpose is to aid in quantification of the North American carbon budget, to support inverse estimation of carbon sources and sinks, and to support the demands posed by higher resolution CO2 observations (in situ and remotely sensed). The detail and scope of the Vulcan CO2 inventory has also made it a valuable tool for policymakers, demographers, social scientists and the public at large (now on Google Earth!). Here is a narrated flyover.
The Vulcan project has achieved the quantification of the 2002 U.S. fossil fuel CO2 emissions at the scale of individual factories, powerplants, roadways and neighborhoods on an hourly basis. We have built the entire inventory on a common 10 km x 10 km grid to facilitate atmospheric modeling. In addition to improvement in space and time resolution, Vulcan is quantified at the level of fuel type, economic sub-sector, and county/state identification.
Here is the Link to the Project Vulcan website:
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/index.php
Wikipedia article on Public Transport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_transport
The CTAs Website for Passengers
http://www.transitchicago.com/
Free mass transit software games and train simulators
http://www.fileguru.com/downloads/transit
http://www.mstrain.org/
http://www.railserve.com/Computers/
Online Directory of Public Transportations in the U.S. State by State
http://www.publictransportation.org/systems/
The Google Transit Trip Planner
http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/transit/#mdy
Blogs on Public Transport
http://frepubtra.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogtoplist.com/rss/public-transportation.html
http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/
http://www.loadedweb.com/search/?q=public+transportation
http://www.loadedweb.com/search/?q=mass+transit
Public Transport Publications and Magazines
http://masstransitmag.com/
Books On Public Transportation
http://www.librarything.com/tag/public+transportation
Journals on Public Transportation
http://www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/journalfulltext.htm
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/library/services/cat/journals.htm
http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/
Statistics on Public Transportation
http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/
Transit Facts, Systems, Reports, and Resources
http://www.publictransportation.org/
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