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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pitchfork released their annual music round-up, widely considered to be the definitive music listicle of the year. So you might as well start writing “2009″ on your checks now. The top ten from their 100 Best Tracks of 2008 are:
10. Estelle feat. Kanye West - “American Boy”

9. Portishead - “Machine Gun”
8. Air France [...]