ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's
The New Classics: Tech"25 gadgets and innovations with the biggest effect on pop culture since 1983"

1. The DVD Player (1997)
2. Napster (1999)
3. TiVo (1999)
4. iPod (2001)
5. YouTube (2005)
6. Realistic CG Characters (1991)
7. Digital Video Cameras for Consumers (1995)
8. Flat-Panel TVs (1997)
9. Satellite-Radio Stations (2001)
10. Stadium Seating in Multiplexes (1995)
11. MySpace (2003)
12. Avid (1989)
13. Netscape Navigator (1994)
14. PlayStation 2 (2000)
15. Pixar's RenderMan Software (1988)
16. Netflix (1998)
17. SP-1200 Sampler (1987)
18. Body Motion Capture (1992)
19. Amazon.com (1995)
20. Game Boy (1989)
21. Polyphonic Ringtones (1998)
22. Star Tours (1987)
23. The Amazon Kindle (2007)
24. Bullet Time (1999)
25. Auto-Tune (1997)
    

Subjectively Speaking...
The Most Annoying
... overused ... misused expressions of the hour. Please stop using them:

• "word"
• "anywayS" (it's "anyway" -- NO "S")
• "whatup?"
• "six of one; half dozen of the other"
• "awesome!"
• "I could care less" (it's, "I could NOT care less")
• "these ones"
• "should OF" "would OF" or "could OF" (it's "should HAVE" "could HAVE," etc.)
  

FORBES TRAVELER's
America's Haunted Hotels U.S. places to get spooked. For photos & details, visit:
http://www.forbestraveler.com/

• The Equinox, Manchester Village, Vermont
• Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, Colorado
• RMS Queen Mary, Port of Long Beach, California
• The Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, Massachusettes
• Hotel Provincial, New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Heathman Hotel, Portland, Oregon
• Homespun Farm, Griswold, Connecticut
• The Cashtown Inn, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas
• Lighthouse Inn, New London, Connecticut
  
  

FORBES TRAVELER.com's
Mysterious Monster Hunts 11 places to go in search of adventure. For images & details, visit:
http://www.forbestraveler.com/

1. Chupacabra (Puerto Rico and elsewhere)
2. Yeti (Nepal and Tibet)
3. Bigfoot (Pacific Northwest, Canada)
4. Loch Ness Monster (Scotland)
5. Phaya Naga (Mekong River, Laos)
6. Ropen (Papua New Guinea)
7. Mokele-Mbembe (Congo Basin)
8. Giant Anaconda (The Amazon)
9. Orang Pendek (Sumatra, Indonesia)
10. Lagarfljóts Worm (Iceland)
11. The Mapinguary (Brazil)
    
    

    

FORBES TRAVELER.com's
America's Prettiest Towns 20 places to find real beauty. For photos & details, visit:
http://www.forbestraveler.com/

1. Rockport, Maine
2. Springdale, Utah
3. Burlington, Vermont
4. Bisbee, Arizona
5. Cape May, New Jersey
6. Anapolis, Maryland
7. Lake Placid, New York
8. Portsmouth, New Hampshire
9. New Hope, Pennsylvania
10. Flagstaff, Arizona
11. Newport, Rhode Island
12. Galena, Illinois
13. Marfa, Texas
14. Park City, Utah
15. Mendocino, California
16. Savannah, Georgia
17. Bodie, California
18. Hanover, New Hampshire
19. Aspen, Colorado
20. Santa Fe, New Mexico

Mutability
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
 1
The flower that smiles today
     Tomorrow dies;
All that we wish to stay,
      Tempts and then flies.
    What is this world's delight?  
Lightning that mocks the night,
      Brief even as bright.
   2
Virtue, how frail it is!
      Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
  For proud despair!
Bur we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy and all
      Which ours we call.
   3
Whilst skies are blue and bright,
       Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
       Make glad the day,
Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou--and from thy sleep
      Then wake to weep.

FORBES TRAVELER's
Famous Haunted Hotels Cool places to get spooked. For photos & details, visit:
http://www.forbestraveler.com/

• Hotel del Coronado, California

• Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, Massachusetts

• The Stanley Hotel, Colorado

• Crescent Hotel, Arkansas

• Hay-Adams Hotel, Washington, D.C.

• Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Georgia

• Hotel Monteleone, Louisiana

• Hotel El Convento, Puerto Rico

• Shieldhill Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Toftaholm Herrgrd, Toftaholm, Sweden