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Most Popular Social Networking Websites
Published March 10, 2010 @ 19:47 in Lists
According to Wikipedia, these are the biggest social networking websites you'd know about in North America, sorted alphabetically.
- Classmates.com
- Facebook
- Flixster
- Flickr
- Last.fm
- LinkedIn
- MySpace
- Twitter
- Windows Live Spaces
I currently have accounts with Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Twitter. Which ones do you use?
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Dead Teen Songs: My Favourites
Published January 22, 2010 @ 09:59 in Lists, Music
In my travels the other night, I stumbled upon Dead Teen Songs or Teenage Death Music or the teen death song or teen tragedy. In addition to being quite the title, it's quite the list.
You've got to love songs about teenage death. Here are my ten favourite dead teen songs.
- Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
- Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-las
- I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
- Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash
- The Legend Of Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio
- Freddie's Dead - Curtis Mayfield
- 19 - Paul Hardcastle
- Adam's Song - Blink 182
- Jeremy - Pearl Jam
- People Who Died - Jim Carroll
But my favourite teen tragedy song didn't even get a mention on this web page. That would be Big League by Tom Cochrane and Red Rider. Hit a truck doing seventy in the wrong lane to the big league.
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Top 10 Books of 2009 According to My Wife
Published January 12, 2010 @ 10:56 in Lists
I'm not much of a reader. I read a lot of the web, but not actual books.
My wife reads a lot, so I asked her to give me a list of her ten favourite books of 2009.
1. The Sealed Letter by Emman Donoghue
2. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
3. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
4. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
5. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof
6. Julie & Julia by Julie Powell
7. When will there be good news? by Kate Atkinson
8. The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George
9. Outlander by Diana Galbaldon
10. Beach Music by Pat Conroy
I'm still partial to Goodnight Moon.
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Movies I Hated in 2009
Published January 11, 2010 @ 13:18 in Lists, Movies
On the weekend, I wrote about movies I loved in 2009. As promised, here are movies I gave 5 or less out of 10 a.k.a. movies I hated in 2009.
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2,155 Sources of Traffic, Here are the Top 10
Published January 2, 2010 @ 17:01 in Lists
There were 2,155 sources of traffic to this site in 2009. #1 was Google and #2 was Yahoo. That's search engine traffic, and important, but this entry isn't about search engine traffic. It's about other sites that sent visitors over here throughout the year.
Excluding Google, Yahoo and Bing, here are the top ten sources of traffic to TorontoMike.com.
- StumbleUpon.com
- Twitter.com
- CanadianThinker.com
- EyeWeekly.com
- Facebook.com
- Torontoist.com
- CityNews.ca
- BlogTO.com
- PensionPlanPuppets.com
- HumbleHoward.com
Inbound links are always appreciated, and whenever possible reciprocated.
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20 Celebrity Deaths of Significance in 2009
Published December 29, 2009 @ 16:23 in Lists
As 2009 draws to a close, you'll likely be seeing a lot of celebrity death lists, remembering those who died throughout the year. For as long as I've had a personal home page on the interweb, I've marked celebrity passings. You can read them all at http://www.torontomike.com/rest_in_peace/.
Here are twenty celebrities of note who passed away in 2009.
The Death of Childhood Memories
Here are ten deaths that in one way or another represented my fleeting youth. The older we get, the more icons from our childhood loves we lose. Still, we lost most of the following far too early.
- Captain Lou Albano, Dead at 76
- Patrick Swayze, Dead at 57
- John Hughes, Dead at 59
- Martin Streek, Dead at 45
- Steve "Air" McNair, Dead at 36
- Michael Jackson, Dead at 50
- Farrah Fawcett, Dead at 62
- Billy Red Lyons, Dead at 77
- Peter Zezel, Dead at 44
- Walt Poddubny, Dead at 49
Other Significant Celebrity Passings
There were a number of significant celebrity deaths in 2009. Here are ten more who left us in 2009.
- Brittany Murphy, Dead at 32
- Haydain Neale of Jacksoul, Dead at 39
- Jim Carroll, Dead at 60
- Ted Kennedy, Dead at 77
- Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, Dead at 83
- Walter Cronkite, Dead at 92
- Ed McMahon, Dead at 86
- David Carradine, Dead at 72
- Dom DeLuise, Dead at 75
- Bea Arthur, Dead at 86
Abe Vigoda, however, is alive.
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The 100 Best Band Names of All Time
Published December 14, 2009 @ 16:05 in Lists, Music
There's a link going around that lists the 100 best band names of all time.
Here's their top 10:
1. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem (Leave it to The Muppets to come up with the BEST BAND NAME OF ALL TIME.)
2. Guided By Voices (This always seemed like the secret to Robert Pollard’s prolific and bizarre output.)
3. Joy Division (The name came from the 1955 novel House of Dolls in which a Nazi concentration camp had a prostitution arm.)
4. Led Zeppelin
5. A Tribe Called Quest
6. 13th Floor Elevators
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Like Lemmy and the umlaut, we’d have retired random punctuation after these post-rock legends used it best.)
8. Public Enemy
9. Man… or Astro-Man? (After seeing them live, you still wonder.)
10. We Were Promised Jetpacks! (Yes, Scottish frontman Adam Thompson, we sure were.)
I like #3, #4, #5 and #8, but I'm not sure of the others. I don't even think #1 should count.
Without giving it a great deal of thought, here are my ten favourite band names.
- Joy Division
- Velvet Underground
- Soundgarden
- A Tribe Called Quest
- The Flaming Lips
- Revolting Cocks
- Rage Against the Machine
- Sex Pistols
- Sonic Youth
- The Psychedelic Furs
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40 Christmas Songs
Published December 11, 2009 @ 09:55 in Lists, Music
Tis the season we're inundated by Christmas music. Like any music, some Christmas songs are great, while others are pretty dreadful. This year, I decided to wade through my collection and produce the top 40 Christmas songs.
Yes, music playlists are totally subjective, so I'm sure I've missed a few of your personal favourites, or perhaps I included a Christmas song or two you despise. That's what the comments are for! Let me know where I messed up as we collaborate to mould the ideal Christmas playlist for 2009.
- Christmas Don't Be Late - Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Christmas Must Be Tonight - The Band
- Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid
- Green Christmas - Barenaked Ladies
- White Christmas - Bing Crosby
- Mary Had A Baby - Bruce Cockburn
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen
- Merry Christmas Baby - Chuck Berry
- Joy To The World - Clem Snide
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Coldplay
- First Noel - Crash Test Dummies
- Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie and Bing Crosby
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Death Cab For Cutie
- Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
- I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
- Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto - James Brown
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko And Plastic Ono Band And The Harlem Community Choir
- Honky The Christmas Goose - Johnny Bower
- I Wish It Was Christmas Today - Julian Casablancas
- Christmas Night in Harlem - Louis Armstrong & His All Stars
- Carol Of The Bells - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - Nat King Cole
- Merry Christmas, Baby - Otis Redding
- Let Me Sleep - Pearl Jam
- Fairytale of New York - The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl
- 2000 Miles - The Pretenders
- Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) - The Ramones
- The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
- Baby, It's Cold Outside - Ray Charles
- Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC
- Song For A Winter's Night - Sarah McLachlan
- What Christmas Means To Me - Stevie Wonder
- You're A Mean One, Mr Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft
- O Holy Night - Tipitina's Foundation
- Baby Please Come Home - U2
- Christmas Time Is Here ( Instrumental) - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Greensleeves - Vince Guaraldi Trio
- Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
- Welcome Christmas - The Who's of Whoville
Merry Christmas!
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The 10 Best Christmas Movies / Specials
Published December 6, 2009 @ 13:08 in Lists, Movies
Here are my ten favourite Christmas movies and specials. Feel free to add your favourites in the comments.
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

9. It's A Wonderful Life

8. Love Actually

7. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

6. A Charlie Brown Christmas

5. The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

4. Bad Santa

3. The Polar Express

2. Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

1. A Christmas Story

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