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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 300 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 Astronomy Picture of the Day

"Stunning space photos"


Goodreads 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 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

"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 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 Classical KUSC



Girl Genius® 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™ Hulu™

"Lots of science fiction shows!"


I Can Has Cheezburger® I Can Has Cheezburger®



Kevin & Kell
 Kell 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™ Museum of Bad Art™

"its subhead is 'art too bad to be ignored' see for yourself"


National Public Radio (NPR) National Public Radio (NPR)



Pandora® Pandora®

"Amazing possibilities for music: works with your preferences and analyzes those to deliver addl music of same flavor."


PBS® PBS®



The Onion® The Onion®

"It is funny."




News and Politics return to top


AlterNet AlterNet

"Best news site for stories not covered by corporate media."


Arts & Letters Daily 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 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 websites around the world. I visit the Drudge Report several times a day."


FactCheck.org FactCheck.org

"The ultimate source for truth in politics."


National Geographic Society National Geographic Society





Reference return to top


About.com® 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 Bartleby.com



craigslist craigslist



Dictionary.com Dictionary.com



Google™ Maps Google™ Maps

"Wonderful and ACCURATE site for finding directions to anywhere. And it beats MapQuest by a mile!"


Google™ Scholar Google™ Scholar

"Search for research published in hundreds of journals around the world; find indidivual 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

"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 IMDb



MapQuest® MapQuest®



Snopes.com Snopes.com



Wikipedia® Wikipedia®





Science and Technology return to top


Gizmodo Gizmodo



Popular Science (POPSCI) Popular Science (POPSCI)





Search Engines return to top


Ask.com® Ask.com®



Bing™ Bing™



Clusty Clusty



Dog Pile® Dog Pile®



GoodSearch GoodSearch



Google™ Google™



Yahoo!® Yahoo!®





Shopping return to top


AbeBooks® AbeBooks®

"The inventory of thousands of used bookstores around the world, searchable and available for purchase from one location."


Amazon.com® Amazon.com®



BookCloseouts.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® eBay®



Edmund Scientifics® Edmund Scientifics®





Social Networking/Media return to top


Facebook Facebook



Lifehacker Lifehacker

"Lots of good tips both computer and non-computer."


LinkedIn® LinkedIn®



Neatorama Neatorama



The Smart Life 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."




If your site is one of our winners and you would like to use our "Top 50 Web Sites 2009" logo, please contact our Marketing Coordinator for more information.



Top Staff Picks

American Mensa members nominated over 300 wide-ranging, diverse (and sometimes quirky) Web sites. While the following sites are not a part of the top 50 Web sites selected by our members, our Web team did want to note these few member-nominated gems.






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