American Mensa's “Top 50”
Web Sites 2010
American Mensa members across the country cast and recast their votes, winnowing down a list of more than 280 member-suggested sites to 100 and finally to the final 50. We are proud to display them here.
Which game site made the Top 50? Where do Mensans get their news and their online laughs? Did BubbleWrap beat out Google? Find out below...
Art and Culture
Entertainment and Humor
News and Politics
Reference
Science and Technology
Search Engines
Shopping
Social Networking/Media
Art and Culture return to top
Astronomy Picture of the Day
"Stunning space photos."
Goodreads
"It’s a book lover’s dream: the best site I have found for inventorying one’s library, keeping track of books one wants to read, discussing literature with others, getting great reading recommendations, and making literary-minded friends."
National Geographic, Photo of the Day
"This site is part of my Google home page and I see a fascinating picture every day. Some of the pictures have a story behind them, some are just beautiful in themselves."
Entertainment and Humor return to top
BoingBoing
"BoingBoing features all sorts of links on a wide range of topics. Some of them are serious, some are downright silly, but all are interesting."
Cake Wrecks
"It makes me laugh every day. It's geeky, it's clever, it's funny, and it's CAKE! What else could you want in a Web site?"
Classical KUSC
Girl Genius®
"For the webcomic/humor category - excellent plotting and art. Hugo 2009 for Best Graphic Story, WCCA awards in 2008 for Outstanding Comic, Outstanding Writer, and Outstanding Environment Design. Updates M-W-F."
Hulu™
"Lots of science fiction shows!"
I Can Has Cheezburger®
Kevin & Kell Kell
"In the Webcomic/Humor category - excellent social satire, in a "furry" world. Syndicated, you may have even seen it in your local paper. Updates daily."
Museum of Bad Art™
"Its subhead is "art too bad to be ignored." See for yourself."
National Public Radio (NPR)
Pandora®
"Amazing possibilities for music: works with your preferences and analyzes those to deliver addl music of same flavor."
PBS®
The Onion®
"It is funny."
News and Politics return to top
AlterNet
"Best news site for stories not covered by corporate media."
Arts & Letters Daily
"Articles of Note, New Books, Essays and Opinion… stuff you didn't realize you were interested in...until you discovered it here"
Drudge Report
"This is my favorite site for reading the news headlines of the hour that are the most interesting and the most important to Americans like me. It's updated hourly. The headlines are linked to news Web sites around the world. I visit the Drudge Report several times a day."
FactCheck.org
"The ultimate source for truth in politics."
National Geographic Society
Reference return to top
About.com®
"This omnibus site gets better and better as it attracts more expert writers covering everything from health to travel. It's more difficult now to become an About.com Guide than it is to get accepted into Harvard."
Bartleby.com
craigslist
Dictionary.com
Google™ Maps
"Wonderful and ACCURATE site for finding directions to anywhere."
Google™ Scholar
"Search for research published in hundreds of journals around the world; find individual papers as well as papers that have listed them as references. Link back to sites where you can download copies from the publishers."
HowStuffWorks
"HowStuffWorks is just what it says. But it has a *lot* of information about how a *lot* of stuff works, from how an engine works to why a lot of people think the world is going to end in 2012."
IMDb
MapQuest®
Snopes.com
Wikipedia®
Science and Technology return to top
Gizmodo
Popular Science (POPSCI)
Search Engines return to top
Ask.com®
Bing™
Clusty
Dog Pile®
GoodSearch
Google™
Yahoo!®
Shopping return to top
AbeBooks®
"The inventory of thousands of used bookstores around the world, searchable and available for purchase from one location."
Amazon.com®
BookCloseouts.com
"Where do books go when the big retailers turn over their inventory? Get them here for a fraction of list price. Cheap shipping, too!"
eBay®
Edmund Scientifics®
Social Networking/Media return to top
Facebook
Lifehacker
"Lots of good tips both computer and non-computer."
LinkedIn®
Neatorama
The Smart Life
"Very Mensa-oriented and Mensa-friendly, consistently fresh content, substantive discussions, occasionally fun and whimsical and silly. Very good needle into the vein of “smart content” constantly running just under the surface of popular culture."
Web Sites 2010
American Mensa members across the country cast and recast their votes, winnowing down a list of more than 280 member-suggested sites to 100 and finally to the final 50. We are proud to display them here.
Which game site made the Top 50? Where do Mensans get their news and their online laughs? Did BubbleWrap beat out Google? Find out below...
Art and Culture
Entertainment and Humor
News and Politics
Reference
Science and Technology
Search Engines
Shopping
Social Networking/Media
Art and Culture return to top
"Stunning space photos."
"It’s a book lover’s dream: the best site I have found for inventorying one’s library, keeping track of books one wants to read, discussing literature with others, getting great reading recommendations, and making literary-minded friends."
"This site is part of my Google home page and I see a fascinating picture every day. Some of the pictures have a story behind them, some are just beautiful in themselves."
Entertainment and Humor return to top
"BoingBoing features all sorts of links on a wide range of topics. Some of them are serious, some are downright silly, but all are interesting."
"It makes me laugh every day. It's geeky, it's clever, it's funny, and it's CAKE! What else could you want in a Web site?"
"For the webcomic/humor category - excellent plotting and art. Hugo 2009 for Best Graphic Story, WCCA awards in 2008 for Outstanding Comic, Outstanding Writer, and Outstanding Environment Design. Updates M-W-F."
"Lots of science fiction shows!"
"In the Webcomic/Humor category - excellent social satire, in a "furry" world. Syndicated, you may have even seen it in your local paper. Updates daily."
"Its subhead is "art too bad to be ignored." See for yourself."
"Amazing possibilities for music: works with your preferences and analyzes those to deliver addl music of same flavor."
"It is funny."
News and Politics return to top
"Best news site for stories not covered by corporate media."
"Articles of Note, New Books, Essays and Opinion… stuff you didn't realize you were interested in...until you discovered it here"
"This is my favorite site for reading the news headlines of the hour that are the most interesting and the most important to Americans like me. It's updated hourly. The headlines are linked to news Web sites around the world. I visit the Drudge Report several times a day."
"The ultimate source for truth in politics."
Reference return to top
"This omnibus site gets better and better as it attracts more expert writers covering everything from health to travel. It's more difficult now to become an About.com Guide than it is to get accepted into Harvard."
"Wonderful and ACCURATE site for finding directions to anywhere."
"Search for research published in hundreds of journals around the world; find individual papers as well as papers that have listed them as references. Link back to sites where you can download copies from the publishers."
"HowStuffWorks is just what it says. But it has a *lot* of information about how a *lot* of stuff works, from how an engine works to why a lot of people think the world is going to end in 2012."
Science and Technology return to top
Search Engines return to top
Shopping return to top
"The inventory of thousands of used bookstores around the world, searchable and available for purchase from one location."
"Where do books go when the big retailers turn over their inventory? Get them here for a fraction of list price. Cheap shipping, too!"
Social Networking/Media return to top
"Lots of good tips both computer and non-computer."
"Very Mensa-oriented and Mensa-friendly, consistently fresh content, substantive discussions, occasionally fun and whimsical and silly. Very good needle into the vein of “smart content” constantly running just under the surface of popular culture."
