I’m afraid I’m lying to you all… this is not a list of my top 10 top 10s of 2007: one of these lists has 19 items on them and one even has 7. I’m sorry. Oh, and some of them don’t even have ‘2007′ in the title. I’m a bad person - I know I am - and for that I apologise.
Regardless, below are my top 10 lists of 2007. You know the ones - they proclaim to contain the best 10-or-so of something from the 12 months that have just passed? Come, soak up the nostalgia:
- The Best 19 Movies You Didn’t See in 2007 - Looking for the best independent films of 2007 that didn’t make it big? Well then, this is the list for you. A great list to accompany this is /film’s ingeniously compiled 25 Definitive Movies of 2007. A ‘glass-is-half-empty’ kinda person? Well how about the 9 Worst Movies of 2007?
- Top 10 Food and Drink Hacks - I love this stuff. While it’s got nothing to do with 2007, it’s got everything to do with making your life just that little bit easier. This is the reason why I once read Lifehacker religiously: reading this list makes me want to resubscribe to their RSS feed. In fact, I will.
- Top 10 Viral Videos of 2007 - Watching these videos you may laugh (Don’t Tase Me vs. MC Hammer), stare in amazement/puzzlement (Daft Hands/Prison Inmates Performing ‘Thriller’), or simply cringe and wonder how it all went so wrong (Miss South Carolina Teen USA). The list could be refined though: where’s Chocolate Rain, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip and the Finger Painting Turtle-Kid?
- 10 of the Most Interesting and Entertaining Images of 2007 - The top 10 viral images of 2007. That means, that if you have an email address, you’ve undoubtedly seen these 10 times already.
- 7 Things We Should Pretend Never Happened - I knew I was going to agree with most of this list as soon as I read the headline for item number one: Huddled Masses Lining Up for Bullsh!t.
- D!ckheads of the Year - Like Ronseal, this list does exactly what it says on the tin. Erik Prince of Blackwater, College Republicans, Congressional Democrats and - of course - George Bush… all nominated by Rolling Stone for the honour of being ‘D!ckhead of the Year’.
- Top 10 Astronomy Pictures - I’ve never been a huge astronomy fan. Yeah, the Universe is fascinating and full of mystery; but there’s something inherently unknowable about it that - for some reason - distracts me from its splendour. Nonetheless, these images are truly captivating.
- Top 10 Most Pirated Movies and TV Shows of 2007 - Bored and trying to think of something to download and watch? I’m not as that’s illegal, but if I were (hypothetically speaking, of course) I would go here to see what films and TV shows were downloaded the most last year.
- Top 10 New Organisms of 2007 - From the Ashera GD hypo-allergenic cat to super CO2-absorbing trees, it’s been an interesting year in genetic engineering and Wired does the this round-up for us. If genetic engineering isn’t your scientific tipple, why not have a look at their Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007 instead?
- Best ‘Professional’ Photographs of 2007 - There’s UNICEF’s Photo of the Year, National Geographic News’ Top Ten Photos, and The Press Photographer’s Year Awards (my personal favourite, yet also the one with the worst website). Of course, it’s not just professionals who take captivating photographs, and so PhotoCompetitions.com has the definitive list of amateur and professional photography competition for your perusal.
As a bonus, have the following too:
- My favourite round-up of interesting links from the past year: Jason Kottke’s Best Links of 2007
- The best ‘personal’ round-up of the past year: The Girl in the Cafe’s The Year That Passed
- The best post detailing the biggest news stories of 2007: (cough-plug-cough) My Top 10 News Stories of 2007.
- Update (16th Jan) - The best single post of the entire year? It has to be Carl’s Why I moved from Boston to Nashville or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing Everything in Snowclones - you had me at ’sliced lolcats’.