http://listlearn.com Lists to Make you Smarter Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:28:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's something great about having a clean desk. It makes people feel more comfortable when they're around you in the office and it makes working easier with fewer distractions. How to do it? LifeClever has 10 tips. As usual, here are the titles, visit LifeClever for the full monty: Use a ... http://listlearn.com/lists/10-tips-for-keeping-a-clean-desk WorkHappy (an excellent entrepreneur blog) has this exclusive from Seth Godin to promote his new book Small is the New Big. Here are the summaries. For the full list, see WorkHappy. Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard. Spending money as a substitute for doing something great. Not realizing ... http://listlearn.com/lists/top-five-marketing-mistakes-for-entrepreneurs The actual list calls this a list for junior designers, however I'd argue that most of these suggestions are useful for anyone starting a new career. Here are they are: Work quickly, produce a lot Attend to details Be versatile Make an effort to learn Anticipate problems Set goals Display a positive attitude Click any of them ... http://listlearn.com/lists/7-habits-for-junior-employees Eric Allam has a great list with a 10 ways to read a book in a week. I won't quote his list here, but I'll add my suggestion for a number 11 (which is also in the comments on his blog): I'd also add listening to audiobooks to this list. I've ... http://listlearn.com/lists/10-tips-on-how-to-read-any-book-in-7-days-or-less Om Malik lists his top ten Mac apps. Sometime soon we'll do ours. http://listlearn.com/lists/om-maliks-top-ten-mac-apps The "largest list of oxymorons" ever compiled. The first five are: 5. Dodge Ram 4. Work Party 3. Jumbo Shrimp 2. Healthy Tan 1. Microsoft Works http://listlearn.com/lists/oxymorons The ten best designed blogs according to Elliot Back. Definitely some nice looking sites in there. It's interesting that four of the ten have 3 columns in their layout and two have only one column, making the two column layout a minority. http://listlearn.com/lists/ten-best-designed-blogs The 100 most powerful game developers based on games sold in the United Kingdom 2005. Check out the full article. http://listlearn.com/lists/100-most-powerful-game-developers Here are a bunch of resources to help you learn Ruby on Rails. http://listlearn.com/lists/list-of-rails-resources Cameron Olthuis has posted a great list (with images and descriptions) of the top 10 CSS tutorials. Most of these are newer techniques many of them pretty slick, check them out if you haven't already. Hoverbox Image Gallery CSS Bar Graphs CSS Vertical Menus Listamatic Floatutorial Rounded Corners 40 CSS Layouts CSS Photo Gallery CSS Drop Shadows Style Sheet Switcher http://listlearn.com/lists/top-10-css-tutorials