Welcome to the continuation of this epic year-end edition of our listicle-of-lists Weekly Wednesdays. Earlier we looked at financial crooks, corrupt politicians and pop culture blunders (among others), now we look at some equally heavy, and significantly lighter subjects in the second half of Listicles’ Top 25 Year-End Lists of 2008.

• Top 10 Spec Ads of 2008: We love how the Adidas ad (number 5) could just as easily be an ad for iPods, or American patriotism. Funny also that the Converse and Doc Marten ads have basically the same premise: “Wherever cool resides, it wears our footwear.” Although this spot for Zune (number 6, inexplicably), is our pick of the litter:

• Best and Worst Ads of 2008: With its even-handed sampling of good and bad ads from 2008 (I hope I never see those annoying “Odd Couple” Microsoft ads again), one ad especially has gained all kinds of unintended hindsight topicality: a baby trading stocks.

• Top 10 Feuds of 2008: Kudos to you, Gawker writers, for setting aside petty feuds like Hilary Clinton v. Barack Obama, or Anonymous v. Scientology, in order to focus on what is truly the most far-reaching feud of 2008: Soulja Boy v. Ice T.

• Worst 10 Humanitarian Crises of 2008: From civil wars to invasions to AIDS, TB and malnutrition, we hope that not all of these entries reappear on next year’s version of this list.

• PAPER’s Best of the Best of 2008: One of our favorite print magazine’s listicle-of-lists features innumerable highlights, though our pick would have to be editor and publisher Kim Hastreiter’s Top 10 Creative Moments of 2008, with Banksy’s installation art pet shop and grill in Greenwich Village.

• Best (and Worst) Sex Scandals of 2008: Obsessed as we are with sex scandals, only one of these was news to us, but what news it was. Gawker’s number 4 sex scandal is that sparked by the release of Max Mosley’s torture-play sex tapes.

• Most Inspiring Set Design from Movies and TV Shows in 2008: Sure, there was plenty of period porn on TV and movie screens in 2008 (Mad Men, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, etc.), but our favorite from this listicle (film nerds that we are), is the set of interiors from Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt. By next week our apartment will look like this:

• Top 10 Political Scoops of 2008: Disappointingly, all but one of these scoops pertains to the presidential election. Not surprisingly, that exception proving the rule is the most substantive of the scoops: that the Pentagon and lobbying firms have been lining TV network military analysts’ pockets (and not just at Fox News).

• The 13 Personalities That Mattered the Most in 2008: Obvious entries include Sarah Palin, Heath Ledger and Tina Fey. This Recording’s most interesting contributions to the year-end figure-head time capsules: actors James Franco (Milk) and Joe Hamm (Mad Men).

• TIME magazine’s Top 10 of Everything: The year-end list-of-lists so massive it eclipses all others (save our own, obvs), TIME cover familiar ground with categories like “Top 10 Movies” and “Top 10 Medical Breakthrough”, but the meat here is really in the oddball sections like “Top 10 Food Trends” (our favorite pick is number 4: the war on bottled water). There are also some great visual lists, like “Top 10 Photos” and “Top 10 Editorial Cartoons”, wherein number 7 is our favorite:

All the best lists for 2009!