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Top 14 Mad Professor things for 2005

I looked at the sales reports for 2005 and compiled this list of the top 14 best selling items reviewed on Mad Professor (and Boing Boing). Here they are:

1. MAKE: Technology on Your Time Volume 04

2. The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

3. Gonzo Gizmos: Projects & Devices to Channel Your Inner Geek

4. Worlds Worst: A Guide To The Most Disgusting, Hideous, Inept, And Dangerous People, Places, And Things On Earth

5. Life's Little Annoyances : True Tales of People Who Just Can't Take It Anymore

6. Strange Angel : The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons

7. Led Zeppelin's Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3)

8. Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life

9. The Apprentice : A Novel

10. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

11. The Week

12. One Two Three . . . Infinity : Facts and Speculations of Science

13. The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight : Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution

14. They Have a Word for It : A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases (The Writer's Studio)

Thanks for visiting Mad Professor. BB has over 300,000 daily visitors, and MP has about 3,000, so I consider you all the cream of the crop. *:)

Comments

In one of those odd co-incidences, I found a advance-uncorrected-proof copy of "Strange Angel" at a library book sale a day or two before Mark's recommendation went up.

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