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We here at Listicles are very much in denial of recessionomics. We don’t buy the idea that we won’t be able to buy another yacht every year, or get each of our kids a slick hybrid car for their middle school, high school and college graduations, or that there’s something fundamentally unsustainable about blowing $1,830 [...]

Onesie here, back with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column Sporty Saturdays. I recently realized that although there has been ample year-end list coverage in these pages over the last couple of weeks, the ubiquitous sports-themed “best of 2008″ has been absent.
Though I’m especially busy around this time of year with freelance mascot gigs [...]

London-based framing experts and album cover art gallery Art Vinyl holds an annual competition to determine the best cover art of the year. In 2008 competition was fierce as recording and visual artists collaborated ever more closely on album art and high-concept visual design. With rising stakes in mind, here are Art Vinyl’s Top 10 [...]

Slightly less time-sensitive than other year-end lists, compilations of hilarious and/or excruciatingly painful falls are nonetheless an especially apt metaphor for the year 2008. Our friends over at NextRound.net, it just so happens, have come across the following video-listicle (”vidsticle”?), which we now pass along to you, dear readers, to satisfy all your immediate nostalgia [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

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 [...]

We, like you dear reader, are overwhelmed with year-end lists at this, the very end of 2008. While we at Listicles strive to keep on top of the Interweb’s swirling, churning, micro-climactic list systems, we habitually miss a few, hence the perfect storm that hits our shores in the middle of every work week: Weekly [...]

From our backwards-looking year-end perspective, 2008 looks like it was all elections, Olympics, financial crises and Jokers. Although the scientific community flew under the radar while entertainment, politics, and the economy fused into one giant, indistinguishable headline-multiplying beast, some important things were discovered by our test tube-toting, lab-coated friends this year.
Incapable of figuring them all [...]

One of the big year-end lists comes to us today from the rulers of all things online, Google, who released the findings of their annual search tabulations on their Google Zeitgeist 2008 site. The whole Googlegeist site is full of fascinating findings (like that New Zealanders are really into the new hadron collider or that [...]

It’s hard to remember all of the great things that came out of this year when you’re at your parents’ house, hopped up on eggnog and listening to the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album on repeat. Rex Sorgatz does the dirty work for all of us, indexing every best-of list out there, from architecture to fashion [...]