The Open Laboratory 2010: Best Science Blog Posts from 2010. 50 essays, 6 poems and 1 cartoon selected from nearly 900 submissions. Open Lab previously on MetaFilter
posted by bobobox on Jan 12, 2011 - 7 comments

The scene of the year is a squirm-inducing stunner that manages to make us sympathize with a would-be murderer. [more inside]
posted by philip-random on Dec 31, 2010 - 54 comments

Longform.org's best long form articles of 2010 [more inside]
posted by AceRock on Dec 7, 2010 - 15 comments

Give Me Something To Read Best of 2010 [more inside]
posted by AceRock on Nov 23, 2010 - 17 comments

Notice some best of the year or best of the decade lists? I guess you could do that, if you are into the retro thing. Forward thinking websites bring you the best of the year to come. From The Millions we have books and from io9 science fiction books. (Io9 is also worried about a few things in the coming year.) From The Onion AV culb we have media, broadly defined. Rotten Tomatoes lists the most anticipated Sundance films. You want games? We got games from BoingBoing, MTVu and Kotaku. [more inside]
posted by shothotbot on Jan 6, 2010 - 15 comments