2006
Thursday, 12.28.06 @ 12:09AM 
Hey, you can’t slide into the New Year holiday without doing the traditional year-end look back, right? And in the last few years, that means top ten lists, or top twenty, or one hundred, or whatever. And there’s no shortage of subjects people won’t rate in one fashion or another. There are even lists of lists. Someone should rank the best of the lists of lists of 2006. Maybe this one could be a contender! But probably not, unless I write it up myself... which I may yet do.
Top Three Reasons Why Year-End Lists are Annoying.
TIME Magazine’s Best Photos of the Year 2006.
The Year in Pictures from MSNBC. This slideshow with audio contains some graphics that may be (and should be) disturbing.
99 of the oddest photos of 2006. (via Militant Platypus)
In the news category: The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006. (via the Presurfer)
JibJab looks back at 2006 in Nuckin’ Futs
The Year in Advertising: AdFreak’s Top Stories.
The Global Language Monitor has a list of Top Television Buzzwords of 2006. (via the Presurfer)
Merriam-Webster’s Words of the Year.
The Top 50 Music Videos of 2006. Not just a list; the videos are here! (via YesButNoButYes)
100 Notable Books of the Year.
Britain has a bumper crop of nude calendars for 2007. Most are for charity. Here’s a slideshow sampling. (via Arbroath)
Some of the weirder news stories from 2006
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One of the people I’ve been following this year is Lasse Gjertsen, the 22 year old Norwegian video editor. His rise to fame is chronicled in this Wall Street Journal interview. You can find his videos here. (via Arbroath)
Nominations for the Fark Headline of the Year. They're all funny!
Its a new art form, taking an existing hit movie and remixing it as a different film genre. Many have tried it, and you can find tons of badly done recuts on YouTube. Rolling Stone presents The Best Recut Movie Trailers of 2006. Yes, videos are included.
Top 10 Most Annoying Pop Songs of 2006.
The Top Ten Best Places to Live 2006. This page alslo lists the top 100 places.
The 20 Strangest Gadgets of 2006, from Tech Digest.
PERSON OF THE YEAR
As they do each December, TIME Magazine selected the Person of the Year, which is me! Or You, or whoever. Let’s say it all together now... “LAME!”
I knew it wouldn’t be long before the parodies began. Here’s Jon Stewart.
Don’t get too excited, you have to share that award with these guys. (via Bits and Pieces) And bloggers did the obvious artwork.
J-Walk Dr. Blogstein Tom Sherman
Top Ten Signs You Are Not One Of The Most Fascinating People Of 2006
from David Letterman (lifted from Mostly Risible)
10. You're 37, but you still answer the phone, "Hello, mommy?"
9. Only person who'll interview you is Barbara Walters' nephew, Duane Walters
8. You spend your paycheck on strippers and Slim Jim's
7. Favorite topic of conversation? Thumbtacks
6. Al Gore told you to stop drinking on and on
5. Proudest day was when you unscrambled "dgo" in the "Jumble"
4. Your catchphrase is "Can't, I'm allergic"
3. The public adores you -- "The public" being your garage full of raccoons
2. You convened the Iraq study group to determine the state of your underpants
1. You're in charge of onions at Taco Bell
The Top Social Networks of 2006. This is the Web 2.0 that TIME Magazine talks about. The “Our Choice” picks dominate the news in 2006, and the “People’s Choice” picks seem to indicate more recent trends.
The 2006 Foot-In-Mouth Awards, from Wired News. These have to do with technology and the internet, but President Bush is still prominently listed, as you could have guessed.
The Asshole of the Year has not been determined yet, but voting is open til January 7th. Go vote!
Sports Violence 2006: A Holiday Tribute. Ignore the Christmas music; this is perfect for a year-end wrapup.
National Geographic’s Top Ten Videos of 2006.
Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums of 2006.
From Cryptomundo: Top Ten Cryptozoo Mystery Pix 2006. These are freaky!
The top movies of 2006, according to Rolling Stone, according to the New York Times, and according to the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
The Top Ten Top Ten Lists of 2006. Actually, its the top ten stories of the year from YesButNoButYes, so you know they all involve either sex or TV.
McSweeney’s List of Lists is constantly growing. From Vegetarian Alternatives to Bowling to Things that Did not Stay in Vegas, these lists from around the internet are highly entertaining!
The Best of ‘The Best of 2006 list lists list. Yes, thats the name of the article. A list of the best lists. We are about the achieve recursion.
MY LIST
Since today is a day of lists, I may as well do one myself. Here are the most popular posts this year on Miss Cellania.
1. Computer Trap Shoot is an exclusive video my brother produced about the destruction of my old iMac at the hands of recreational marksmen. You can’t miss with a combination of guns, computers, and explosions! Although ignored by the big links sites, the post was featured on computer, comedy, and guns sports forums all over the world.
2. November’s Best Links made this list by fortunate fluke. I posted to Neatorama about Shawn Hogan getting a Christmas gift from Google. In that item, I had offhandedly mentioned that I got a T-shirt for Christmas. I also linked to a picture of it in the November’s Best Links post. The Neatorama item got Digged a few hundred times, so I got a few thousand hits as a side effect. Just for a picture in a t-shirt. I wonder what would happen if I posted a nude?
3. The Pillsbury Doughboy is still one of the most popular items at Eat My Hamster, eight months later. It was submitted when that site was still new, so the votes snowballed. If you go over and give it a thumbs up, it can stay there!
4. English 102 contained a picture that caught the attention of Alex at Neatorama, so he linked it. Then Boingboing picked it up. Then YesButNoButYes noticed it. So I got a ton of hits! This post indirectly led me to becoming a team member at both Neatorama and YesButNoButYes. No word yet from Boingboing.
5. Robert C. McLaughlin died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. This post was part of the 2,996 project, designed to make the 9/11 victims real and personal (instead of a statistic) by having a different blogger focus on each victim individually. McLaughlin lived a tragically short but fascinating life that deserves to be remembered. You can find a list of all the tribute posts, and information about the project, at the 2,996 site.
6. Does My Butt Look Big in This? is a question that every woman asks, and every man dreads. There are a ton of jokes underneath that heading, and they strike close to home for all of us. This post led to an article in WE Magazine for Women in October. 
7. Cyclops Kitten was so weird you couldn’t help but stare at it. When Kipling West of The Seven Deadly Sinners painted a tribute portrait, I wondered what other artwork this dead kitten inspired. Turned out to be plenty of it, and the resulting post rode the leading edge of that internet phenomenon.
8. Bras Do I need to explain why this was popular? As a matter of fact, I explained that in the post itself!
9. New York City struck a chord with more folks than I could have ever predicted. So many readers either live there, lived there in their past, or enjoyed visiting New York City. So I posted a follow-up about a week later, a post-mortem on my visit there called Road Trip Report.
10. Blogging was another fluke post. It was the last post on the old Blogspot site, just before it froze up. I couldn’t even add a redirect notice, so this stayed up as the latest item for several months! Some folks came back to it again and again, wondering if I was ever going to publish again. Kinda ironic, it was, since the post alluded to the fact that my blog was on its deathbed!
But this site has turned out to be far from the deathbed! And that is thanks to you, who visit, comment, and link to me. Hugs and kisses! I promise to continue searching the web for things to tickle you in 2007.
Thought for today: Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred. -Person of the Year cover story in TIME Magazine
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Reader Comments (8)
As for "Top n" lists where n is a number between one and infinity...
well who needs to tell me what the "Top n" of anything are, and why do I need to care? I vote for starting a "Middle n" list of the most bland, pablum events of some arbitrary time period.
Like, for example, pick the 10 most bland minutes out of the last day. I'd say you are spending one of them right now in reading this comment.
And I finally got the joke about Miss Cellania. It was so transparent I think I'll refer to you as Miss Cellophania.
LIKE, Oh my GOD, Like I just can't, Like ,Stop saying Like! hahahahahahahhaahahahaha!!!!!!!
Lasse Gjertsen is awesome!
Hope you had a great Christmas, or whatever you happpen to celebrate.
My question for Letterman is, "What's wrong with being in charge of the onions at Taco Bell?" Getting the proper amount of onions on each Burrito Supreme is a highly important job.
Happy Holidays!! Happy New Year!!!!