The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks
There's also <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome</a><p>What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering:<p><pre><code>  * quality decline of Google search results
  * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us)
  * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)</code></pre>