Despite there being a few obvious omissions, the “semi-serious” list of the ten best rock albums of all time, as published by the Vatican’s official newspaper, “L’ Osservatore Romano”, is not actually half bad:

The Beatles, “Revolver”
Pink Floyd, “The Dark Side of The Moon”
Oasis, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”
Michael Jackson, “Thriller”
U2, “Achtung Baby”
Fleetwood Mac, “Rumours”
Donald Fagen, [...]

Alex Carnevale’s list of the The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time.

From the BBC, 100 things we didn’t know last year.
Using both hands to read Braille achieves an average speed of 115 words a minute, compared with 250 words a minute for sighted reading.

A list of 50 of the world’s best design blogs put together by Times Online writer Lynne Robinson.

The 100 Best Films of the Decade. While I wasn’t surprised by most of the inclusions, the ranking of some films in the list did puzzle me at times… “Knocked Up” higher – if only by one spot – that “The Return of the King”?

Shopping Losts: there’s nothing wrong with shopping lists, they just need a little more style that’s all.
A finder and keeper of toot and tat, those Wombles have got nothing on me. If you happen to stumble upon a little lost shopping list, please do not hesitate to send it to me by old fashioned [...]

Because I love movies and because I love science fiction: The 100 Greatest Sci-Fi Movies.
This list is the result of heated debate/scuffles between the frazzled writers of Total Sci-Fi. In addition to settling on the titles themselves, we also had to set the limits of what counts as a “sci-fi film”: we decided that superhero [...]

The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own, by Esquire magazine.
Why no women then?!

An interesting list, though possibly it should be referred to as the “highest profile” rather than the “best” blogs, as there are a quite a few of the usual suspects present (though it’s good to see the Bad Astronomy blog included).
One little irk about the way Time Magazine presents their lists though is the way [...]

Ben’s Incredible Big List of Initialisms and Acronyms, which has its own initialism, BIBLIA, must include just about every initialism and acronym that has been coined.
Definitely worth bookmarking for future reference.