Best Books:

1) The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

2) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

3) The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

4) The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Best Albums:

1) Graceland by Paul Simon
2) Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys
3) Big Science by Laurie Anderson
4) Hello Nasty by Beastie Boys
5) You've Come A Long Way, Baby by Fatboy Slim

Best Movies:

1) Kiki's Delivery Service

2) Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

3) Bruno

4) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

5) Mulholland Drive

Best Ottawa Restaurants:

1) Collonade Cafe (pizza)

2) Ceylonta (Sri Lankan)

3) Siam Bistro (Thai)

4) Burgers and Fries Forever 

5) 101's Grill (at Carleton University)

Best iOS Programs:

1) Good Reader (with dropbox)

2) Zite

3) Kindle

4) Inception (iPhone or iPad with mic)

5) Audible

Best iOS Games (unordered):

• Battle Nations
• Fairway Solitaire
• Pinball HD (iPad only)
• Zen Pinball 
• Words With Friends
• Army of Darkness Defence
• WordWarrior
• Babo Crash
• Chuzzle
• WizardBlox
• Spider
• Cablink
• ASYNC Corp.
• Orbital 
• The Wolf Among Us
  

Best Animal Names That Don't Sound Like Animal Names:

1) Ocelot

2) Nutria

3) Dik Dik

4) Hydrax

Best Podcasts:

1) The Moth

2) Radiolab

3) This American Life

4) TED Talks

5) Planet Money

6) Freakonomics Radio

Best Board Games (unordered):

• Bananagrams
• Pandemic
• Gloom
• Scrabble
• Boggle
• Ticket to Ride
• Settlers of Catan
• Starfarers of Catan
• Blokus