Mensa names its Top 50 sites on the Web

Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world, has named its top 50 Web sites for 2010.

American Mensa says its members nominated more than 300 “wide-ranging, diverse, and sometimes quirky” sites, which the organization divided into eight categories: art & culture, entertainment & humor, news & politics, reference, science & technology, search engines, shopping and social networking & media.

Here is a list of the results:

Art and Culture

• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Goodreads
• National Geographic Photo of the Day

Entertainment and Humor

• BoingBoing
• Cake Wrecks
• Classical KUSC
• Girl Genius
• Hulu
• I Can Has Cheezburger
• Kevin & Kell Kell
• Museum of Bad Art
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Pandora
• PBS
• The Onion

News and Politics

• AlterNet
• Arts & Letters Daily
• The Drudge Report
• FactCheck.org
• National Geographic Society

Reference

• About.com
• Bartelby.com
• Craigslist
• Dictionary.com
• Google Maps
• Google Scholar
• HowStuffWorks
• IMDb
• MapQuest
• Snopes.com
• Wikipedia

Science and Technology

• Gizmodo
• Popular Science

Search Engines

• Ask.com
• Bing
• Clusty
• Dog Pile
• GoodSearch
• Google
• Yahoo

Shopping

• AbeBooks
• Amazon.com
• BookCloseouts.com
• eBay
• Edmund Scientifics

Social networking/Media

• Facebook
• Lifehacker
• LinkedIn
• Neatorama
• The Smart Life

As it turns out, the world’s smartest group of people are a lot like us when it comes to wasting, er, spending time online.

However, in our opinion, the science and technology list is a little on the short side.

We suggest that the brainiacs at Mensa add to the list Popular Mechanics, Engadget, Scientific American, Discovery News, CNET, Wired Science and, of course, SmartPlanet.

What do you think?