The List of Lists '09: Media

Updated 8/17/2012

Great bookstores

Magers and Quinn bookstore

  1. Magers & Quinn (30)
  2. Amazon.com (25)
  3. Barnes & Noble (24)
  4. Half Price Books (24)
  5. Borders (17)
  6. Booksmart (16)
  7. Open Book (12)
  8. Wild Rumpus (12)
  9. Shinder's (7)
  10. Dreamhaven (5)
"I don't like Barnes & Noble because there is not enough mystery about what I might find. I love stores with floor-to-ceiling stacks of randoms that they can't fit on the shelf yet. Discovery is delicious." –jlpwrs

Best gaming systems

  1. Nintendo Wii (15)
  2. Old-school Nintendo (14)
  3. Xbox 360 (10)
  4. PC (9)
  5. Playstation 2 (8)
  6. Super Nintendo (8)
  7. Playstation 3 (6)
  8. Atari (6)
  9. Sega Genesis (5)
  10. Nintendo DS (5)
  

Technology you can't live without

  1. Internet (36)
  2. Electricity (31)
  3. Cell phone (24)
  4. Plumbing (23)
  5. iPod (22)
  6. Computer (21)
  7. Refrigeration (18)
  8. Air conditioning (16)
  9. Microwave (16)
  10. Car (11)
"Seriously. My friend is still friends with an ex-friend who hooked up with my girlfriend at the time for a month before telling me. Facebook wants me to friend him! I hate it!" –AlphaBean

"Maybe it's just me, but I'm not digging my friends' mothers adding me on Facebook." –TimmyBoy

Best local blogs

  1. Culture Bully (84)
  2. More Cowbell (63)
  3. Minneapolis Fucking Rocks (38)
  4. Whiskey for the Holy Ghost (35)
  5. Overheard in Minneapolis (30)
  6. Words to Sell (27)
  7. MNspeak (21)
  8. Sopheava de Lumiere (18)
  9. Girl Friday (15)
  10. MNStories (12)
  

Best local radio DJs

  1. Mary Lucia, the Current (53)
  2. Mark Wheat, the Current (47)
  3. Barb Abney, the Current (29)
  4. Bill DeVille, the Current (26)
  5. Steve Seel, the Current (21)
  6. Brian Oake, Cities 97 (26)
  7. Danny Sigelman, the Current (17)
  8. Cathy Wurzer, MPR (18)
  9. Dave Ryan, KDWB (14)
  10. Tone E Fly, B96 (11)

Amy Hockert and Sven Sundgaard

Hottest local female news personality

  1. Robyne Robinson (20)
  2. Amy Hockert (19)
  3. Marni Hughes (18)
  4. Amelia Santaniello (17)
  5. Belinda Jensen (16)
  6. Alix Kendall (14)
  7. Julie Nelson (14)
  8. Leah McLean (11)
  9. Marney Gellner (10)
  10. Karen Leigh (8)
  

Hottest local male news personality

  1. Sven Sundgaard (23)
  2. Jason DeRusha (18)
  3. Sven Sundgaard on stilts (16)
  4. Mike Pomeranz (16)
  5. Keith Marler (15)
  6. Rick Kupchella (14)
  7. Joe Fryer (13)
  8. Don Shelby (13)
  9. Frank Vascellaro (13)
  10. Eric Perkins (10)

Best audio podcast

  1. The Current's Song of the Day (26)
  2. "This American Life" (21)
  3. The Onion Radio News (19)
  4. "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" (15)
  5. NPR All Songs Considered (18)
  6. Savage Love (16)
  7. "Musicheads" on the Current (8)
  8. KEXP Song of the Day (10)
  9. "Democracy Now!" (9)
  10. "Lost" Podcast (7)
  

Best internet radio stations

  1. The Current (21)
  2. MPR (19)
  3. Pandora (16)
  4. Radio K (14)
  5. KEXP (5)
  6. Last.fm (5)
  7. "Indie Pop Rocks" on SomaFM (4)
  8. KFAI (4)
  9. KFAN (3)
  10. KCRW (2)
iPhone

Coolest must-have gadgets

  1. iPhone (18)
  2. iPod (18)
  3. Nintendo Wii (15)
  4. TiVo (11)
  5. Turntable (11)
  6. MacBook Pro (10)
  7. Playstation 3 (8)
  8. Xbox 360 (6)
  9. Blackberry (3)
  10. Sony PSP (3)
"The Internets render TiVo unnecessary. TiVo is for wannabe geeks, and will be dead soon enough." –AlphaBean

Favorite twitter'ers

  1. vita_mn (12)
  2. michaelianblack (8)
  3. Shaq (7)
  4. DarthVader (7)
  5. Firstavenue (7)
  6. efetusmpls (5)
  7. FakeSarahPalin (5)
  8. dooce (4)
  9. BOTeleprompter (3)
  10. johncmayer (3)
  

Where we get our news

  1. Online (18)
  2. "The Daily Show" (17)
  3. Word of mouth (15)
  4. MPR (15)
  5. Newspapers online (13)
  6. Newspapers (11)
  7. Twitter (10)
  8. CNN (10)
  9. BBC online (9)
  10. TV (6)
"I'm so pathetic. I use Twitter mostly for updating my Facebook page remotely or when I am too busy/lazy to fire up my computer. Or when my house is under attack by a pterodactyl-sized woodpecker." –girlwonder

Most annoying things about Facebook

  1. Obnoxious applications (31)
  2. Friends who send you stupid invitations and requests (27)
  3. Tagging me in a photo I would rather not see posted (24)
  4. People who post things on your wall that should be sent in a message (23)
  5. People who update their status every two minutes (20)
  6. Facebook stalkers (18)
  7. Friend requests from all my relatives (18)
  8. I don't care that you're a fan of cheese. Stop asking me to be a fan. (18)
  9. The "25 random things about me" craze (15)
  10. Poking (15)

 

The List of Lists '09

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