AlterNet: The Ten Best Top-Ten Lists
We’re profoundly proud to make AlterNet’s “Ten Best Top-Ten Lists” list. Check it out, we’re #7: “Top 10 lists are a staple of a culture… Read More »AlterNet: The Ten Best Top-Ten Lists
The GLC
“If you had the million dollars, would you still need aspirin?”
There’s some discussion about one of our found lists over at The J-Walk Blog.
January GLC Giveaway Alert: More free books!
UPDATE: The books are gone. Congrats to Marsha and Melissa. | We got our freaky hands on more food books. Who wants them? The first… Read More »January GLC Giveaway Alert: More free books!
Do you like free stuff?
Beginning with the holidays of 2005, we started a Monthly GLC Giveaway. Once a month, when I post a giveaway alert to the grocerylists.org home… Read More »Do you like free stuff?
Free stuff! Free stuff! Free stuff!
UPDATE: The books are all gone. Congrats to John, Karen and Joseph. | It’s the giving season, and we have a few extra food-related books… Read More »Free stuff! Free stuff! Free stuff!
A NEW TOP 10 LIST…
So, in what has become a notorious, almost-annual round-up of lists of note, we shall now note lists of some notoriety… and to make this… Read More »A NEW TOP 10 LIST…
GLC1K!
We got such a warm, fizzy feeling when we added the last 100 lists that we went ahead and added 100 more — bringing the… Read More »GLC1K!
You say tomato…
…we say FINALLY! A new update brings the online collection up to 900 grocery lists. There are a lot more scanned and ready to be… Read More »You say tomato…
Yay! Our first hate mail!
It took years and years, but we finally got email from someone who actually doesn’t like the GLC: “You need to stop butting into other… Read More »Yay! Our first hate mail!
SFGate: Culture Blog!
I like that we’re permanently linked up in the right column of the SFGate’s Culture Blog!
Oops.
After just one week, I forgot to do the GLC Podcasts. I suck!
Podcasts coming soon
Use our Podcasts to have a new list read to you every weekday. Forgot your list? Don’t know what you want for dinner? Use one… Read More »Podcasts coming soon
Congrats to our friends at Coudal Partners…
…who run the Museum of Online Museums. The MoOm was selected as one of Time Magazine’s Top 50 Coolest Web Sites for 2005, probably mostly… Read More »Congrats to our friends at Coudal Partners…
‘Shopping list’ on Wikipedia
Hey! We’re (currently) listed on Wikipedia, under the category Shopping List: “Collecting discarded shopping lists is a niche hobby.”
GLC is ‘required reading’ at MIT
To those of you who doubt the greatness of this site, please note that the Grocery List Collection is required reading for MIT’s “Social Visualization”… Read More »GLC is ‘required reading’ at MIT
Downtime
The site seems to have been down from about midnight to 10 a.m. this morning, apparently a problem at the hosting company. Sorry.
Duplicates?
Hello. If anyone out there ever notices duplicated lists on the site just let me know. I appreciate the emails from those who’ve alerted me… Read More »Duplicates?
Sarah’s Gems of the Internet
Had no idea G4TV could send so much traffic this way. Thanks Sarah’s Gems of the Internet!
We’re a people they like!
Over at The Morning News: “A ‘collector, maker, and breaker of things,’ since 1997 Bill Keaggy has amassed a collection of over 700 grocery lists.… Read More »We’re a people they like!
Google Search: “grocery lists”
After five years — and out of nearly 1.4 million results — we are finally #1 when you Google the simple phrase “grocery lists.” Excellent.