Have a Happy New Year and a
Crappy Old Year. 2008 was the worst:
year ever,
for Wall Street,
for movies,
for restaurants,
celebrities,
malware,
for women,
for children,
for relationships,
for newspaper history,
for the environment,
for Arts,
for ad revenue,
for CDs,
IPOs,
MMOs,
the GOP (duh!),
for hurricanes, (almost)
for weather related disasters,
number of disaster victims,
the nerd elite,
Italian military helicopters,
the vain and the venal,
for guerillas and
bear encounters.
posted by twoleftfeet
on Dec 30, 2008 -
50 comments
The
Wired Vaporware Awards, an institution since
1999 has taken some
heavy hits this year, and has had to resort to some pretty naked padding to make a list (products in late beta whose release date has merely slipped? come on) – however, if there is anything that remains constant in these uncertain times we live in it is that
one game rules the list, debuting in the No 2. slot in
2000, it then latched on to the top spot, with only
editorial edict able to to shift it. Ladies and gentlemen, Duke Nukem -
FOREVER.
posted by Artw
on Dec 29, 2008 -
72 comments
The Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten of 2008;
NY Times blog,
Social Citizens,
Swan Fungus,
lifehacker,
PC World,
Tynan,
Something Else,
The Exploding Barrel,
Technorati,
Google,
Toptentopten.
posted by twoleftfeet
on Dec 27, 2008 -
13 comments
How Obama Did It: an in-depth look behind the scenes of the campaign, assembled by a special team of reporters who were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day.
posted by thbt
on Nov 5, 2008 -
254 comments
Photos of the 2008 Paralympics. Sadly the Paralympics rarely garners the coverage of the Olympics, but thanks to the internet you can witch videos of the competitions at
Universal Sports (though it may be region-blocked, require registration and only seems to work on Windows).
posted by GuyZero
on Sep 12, 2008 -
30 comments
Some of the female
Chinese gymnasts are apparently under-age. It wasn't their skulls, their chins or their eyes that gave them away: it was the
internet.
posted by chuckdarwin
on Aug 20, 2008 -
130 comments
Former White House spokesman
Tony Snow developed
colon cancer in February 2005 thanks to having suffered from
ulcerative colitis for much of his life; he died today from that ailment. Snow was a "Fox News Sunday" anchor, a Fox News Channel political analyst, a guest host for Rush Limbaugh's radio program, the host of Fox News Radio's "The Tony Snow Show", and a NPR commentator. Chief of Staff Josh Bolten told staffers that unless they could commit to staying the full remainder of Bush's term, they should leave by Labor Day 2007, prompting Snow's resignation (due to what he said were financial reasons), where he was succeeded by
Dana Perino. He played the guitar, saxophone and
flute and was in a band called Beats Workin'. "Bush's wavering conservatism has become an active concern among Republicans, who wish he would stop cowering under the bed and start fighting back against the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Wilson," said Snow in a column. "The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment."
posted by WCityMike
on Jul 12, 2008 -
125 comments
