The Daily Background
| End of the year lists
Filed at 11:09 pm, Sunday December 31st 2006
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Well, it’s the end of the year, so everybody’s got their end of the year lists. Here are some that I liked, organized roughly by category.
Photos
- BBC: The Year in Pictures
- TIME Magazine: Best Photos of the Year- 2006
- BadAstronomy.com: The Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006
- Sports Illustrated: The Year’s Most Interesting Pictures
Science/Technology
- TIME Magazine: The 50 Coolest Websites of 2006
- Scientific American: The Top Science News Stories of the Year
PC World: The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year
Film
- American Film Institute: Top 10 films of 2006
- Rolling Stone: The 10 Best Movies of 2006
- TIME Magazine: The Ten best movies of 2006
- About.com: Top 10 Documentaries of 2006
- MSNBC: 10 Best Films of 2006 (10 Worst Films of 2006)
The Media
- Media Matters: Misinformer of the year
- Project Censored: Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006
- Foreign Policy Magazine: The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006
- Editor & Publisher: Our most popular story of 2006
Politics
- Slate: The 5 Best Political Moments of 2006
- ABC News: The Biggest Political Blunders of 2006
- NBC: David Gregory’s year in politics
- Media Matters: The top 11 Outrageous Quotes of the Year
- Political Wire: The Year in Politics
- TIME Magazine: Political cartoons of the year
- The Blue State: 10 Funniest Political Moments of 2006 (includes video of each)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live: The Best of Bush 2006 (video)
Misc
- Wikipedia: 2006
- BBC: 100 things we didn’t know last year
- Associated Press: Top News Stories of 2006
Video
- Wired: The Year in Online Video (with YouTube videos)
- ABC/BoingBoing: The Best YouTube videos of 2006
Naturally, everybody’s favorite Smart Peopletm Chuck Todd and John Mercurio of HotlineTV had some great “year in review” type episodes as well:
- Best Losing Candidates
- Worst Winning Campaigns of 2006
- Most Memorable TV ads of 2006
- HotlineTV Holiday Special ‘06
The Hotline itself had its own written review. Chuck Todd had his own end-of-year column consisting mostly of snappy Chuck-Todd-esque one-liners, which you can read here.
