The Daily Background

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

PC World: The 20 Most Innovative Products of the Year

• Scientific American: The Top Science News Stories 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 People^tm 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.

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