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WORDS & SEARCH (21 lists)
Best Quotes from Poplicks (01/11)
Words Of The Year from American Dialect Society (01/06)
Notable Quotables from Media Research Center (12/31)
Top 10 News Searches from Ask.com (12/27)
Top Searches from Yahoo (12/27)
Search Year In Review from AOL (12/27)
Lycos 50 from Lycos (12/27)
The 99 Top 9 from A9 (12/27)
Most Popular Search Terms from InfoSpace (12/27)
Quotes Of The Year from Newsweek (12/22)
Google Zeitgeist from Google (12/21)
25 Dumbest Quotes from About.com (12/20)
25 Funniest Quotes from About.com (12/20)
Top Searches from Yahoo (12/19)
Top Searches from AOL (12/15)
Words Of The Year from Merrian-Webster (12/13)
Plagiarism Round-Up from Regret The Error (12/13)
Banished Words from Lake Superior State University (12/08)
Hot Political Buzzwords from Global Language Monitor (12/06)
Word Of The Year from New Oxford American Dictionary (12/06)
Top Politically (In)Correct Words from Global Language Monitor (12/03)
DVD (22 lists)
Top Ten DVDs from JoBlo.com (01/09)
Best Vault Raiders from New York Times (12/31)
Best Of 2005 from Ultimate DVD Geek (12/31)
DVD Of The Year from DVD Bearer (12/31)
Top 10 DVD Packaging from DVD Talk (12/28)
Best Schlock from DVD Talk (12/28)
Top 10 Television Releases from DVD Talk (12/28)
Top 10 Independent Releases from DVD Talk (12/28)
Top 10 Documentaries from DVD Talk (12/28)
Top Ten Foreign Releases from DVD Talk (12/28)
Best And Worst DVDs from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
Best Behind The Scenes Goodies from Boston Globe (12/27)
10 Best TV DVDs from Barnes & Noble (12/27)
10 Best Movie DVDs from Barnes & Noble (12/27)
Most Impressive DVDs from DVD Talk (12/26)
Best Films Not in Theaters Or DVD from DVD Talk (12/26)
Favorite Music DVDs from Largehearted Boy (12/23)
Year's Best Music DVDs from The Guardian (12/18)
Top 10 Classic Rock DVDs from About.com (12/08)
Top 25 DVDs from Rolling Stone (11/29)
Best Of 2005 -- Customer's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
Best Of 2005 -- Editor's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
ONLINE (35 lists)
The Year In Tags from Tagsonomy (01/15)
Top Ten Privacy Stories from Electronic Privacy Information Center (01/03)
Top Ten Design Blogs from IF (12/31)
Top 20 Public Domain Files from Public Domain Torrents (12/31)
Worst Tech Moments from Wired News (12/30)
Top Ten Spam List from AOL (12/30)
Best Tech Moments from Wired News (12/30)
Top Viral Videos from iFilm (12/30)
Top 10 Viruses from Sophos (12/29)
Blogs Of 2005 from Modern Fabulous (12/29)
Top 10 Tech Transformations from New Media Musings (12/29)
Top Online Media Stories from Cyberjournalist (12/29)
The Best Links from Kottke.org (12/28)
Hot In The Blogosphere from Blog Pulse (12/27)
Top 10 Podcast Episodes from Learn Out Loud (12/27)
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments from ZDNet.com (12/22)
Best Web Links from Eye.net (12/22)
Top 10 Spyware Tricks from ZDNet.com (12/22)
Top 10 Innnovative Web 2.0 Applications from Article Dashboard (12/21)
Top Ten Videos from National Geographic (12/21)
Top Ten Web Diversions from Amy Campbell (12/20)
Software & Hardware Battles Of 2005 from Tech News World (12/20)
Top 10 Moments In IT from Info World (12/19)
Favorite Web Tips from Poynter.org (12/19)
Most Blogged-About Books from New York Times (12/18)
Picks Of The Year from Yahoo (12/15)
Best Web 2.0 Software from WSJ2.com (12/15)
Top News Sites (According To Google News) from Newsknife (12/12)
Best Of The Web from Spastic Robot (12/12)
Best Of The New Web from Business Week (12/11)
Best Funny Videos from Goodiebag.TV (12/06)
Top 10 Most Confusing (Yet Widely Used) High Tech Buzzwords from Global Language Monitor (12/06)
Weblog Awards from Weblog Awards (12/06)
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes from Jakob Nielsen (11/20)
50 Coolest Websites from Time (11/20)
IDEAS (2 lists)
Best Ideas Of 2005 from Business Week (12/13)
The Year In Ideas from New York Times Magazine (12/11)
SEX (5 lists)
Best of '05: Best Flesh from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
Top 20 Adult DVDs from DVD Talk (12/28)
The Year In Sex & Sports from ESPN.com (12/19)
Bad Sex In Fiction Shortlist from The Guardian (11/30)
The 10 Worst Christmas Gifts from ShopInPrivate.com (11/29)
ADVERTISING/MARKETING (8 lists)
Top Ad Music from Adtunes.com (01/15)
The 10 Worst Spins from Idea Grove (12/29)
10 Most-Watched Videos from Ad Age (12/20)
Ten 2005 Ads America Won't See from Ad Age (12/20)
Ten Worst PR Blunders from Fineman PR (12/13)
10 Best Blogs from Marketing Sherpa (12/10)
The Year In Swag from The Onion A/V Club (12/08)
Funniest Commercials from TBS.com (12/05)
ARCHITECTURE (6 lists)
Best Of 2005 from Archinect (01/06)
Highs And Lows from New York Times (12/29)
A Beautiful Year For Museums from Boston Globe (12/27)
Urban Blogging Awards from Gridskipper (12/12)
AR Awards from AR+D (12/12)
American Architecture Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum (12/12)
MEDIA (32 lists)
Year In Review from NPR Ombudsman (01/06)
Media Mensches Of The Year from The New York Observer (01/04)
Year In Review from Week In Review (01/03)
News You Missed from ABC's Good Morning America (01/03)
Most-Read Stories from Slate.com (12/30)
Most Predictable Stories from Wired News (12/30)
Best And Worst Punditry from Wired News (12/30)
The Good News from Fox News (12/30)
Top 20 Online Stories from Seattle Times (12/30)
Top 10 Wolf Files from ABCNews.com (12/29)
Top Political Stories from FoxNews (12/29)
Year In Events from CBSNews.com (12/29)
Year In Review from CNN.com (12/29)
Media Madness from Jossip (12/29)
The Year In Corrections from Regret The Error (12/29)
Memorable Moments from NPR (12/29)
Year In Review from ABCNews.com (12/29)
Most-Clicked Stories from SFGate.com (12/29)
Media Follies from Seattle Weekly (12/28)
Top 10 Newspaper Industry Stories from Editor & Publisher (12/28)
Year In Media from Boston Globe (12/27)
Year In Review from LexisNexis (12/27)
Most Clicked Stories from Wall Street Journal (12/23)
Year In Magazines from Folio (12/23)
Top Ten News Stories For Women from Ms. Magazine (12/23)
The Year In Journalism from Boston Phoenix (12/23)
Top Global Media Stories from Language Monitor (12/22)
The Year In Magazines from Washington Post (12/20)
10 Most Pathetic Media Meltdowns from Ad Age (12/20)
20 Dumbest Media Quotes from About.com (12/20)
Media Web's 2005 Awards from Marketwatch.com (12/16)
Media Person of the Year from I Want Media (11/21)
TOYS (4 lists)
Most Expensive Toys from Forbes (12/30)
Cheap Toy Roundup from The Onion A/V Club (12/08)
10 Most Dangerous Toys from World Against Toys Causing Harm (11/20)
Top Toys from National Retail Federation (11/18)
BOOKS (55 lists)
U.S. Top Sellers from Nielsen BookScan (01/08)
Bloggers' Favorite Books from Newley Purnell (01/08)
A Year In New Yorker Fiction from The Millions (01/05)
Best Books from The Onion A/V Club (01/02)
Best Books from Playback:stl Magazine (01/01)
Favorite Books from Largehearted Boy (12/31)
Year In Books from USA Today (12/29)
Best And Worst Books from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
Best Books Of The Year from Palm Beach Post (12/28)
Staff Favorites from Barnes & Noble (12/27)
Best Children's Books Of 2005 from Time (12/27)
Best Of 2005 from Time (12/27)
Best Of 2005 Books from Newsday (12/26)
Maureen Corrigan's Favorites from NPR (12/23)
Top 10 Out-Of-Print Books from Bookfinder.com (12/22)
Top 10 Books Of The Year from Salon (12/21)
Best Books from New York Magazine (12/21)
Best Books Of The Year from San Francisco Chronicle (12/19)
Books Of The Year from The Independent (12/18)
10 Favorite Books from Entertainment Weekly -- Stephen King (12/18)
Raleigh Best Books from News & Observer (12/18)
100 Noteworthy Books from Kansas City Star (12/18)
Best Science Fiction, Fantasy And Horror from St. Louis Post-Dispatch (12/18)
Favorite Books from Rocky Mountain News (12/15)
Best Books from Blogcritics (12/15)
The Year In Books from Slate.com (12/15)
Best Children's Books from Kirkus Review (12/14)
25 Best from Kirkus Review (12/14)
25 Favorite Books from Village Voice (12/14)
Top Fiction Books from Mercury News (12/13)
Seven Great Books You May Have Missed from Time (12/13)
Books Of The Year from The Economist (12/12)
Books Of The Year from Washingoton Post (Jonathan Yardley) (12/12)
Not The Best Of The Year from CNN.com (12/11)
Best Fiction from Daily Telegraph (12/11)
Top 10 Literary Works from About.com (12/11)
Top 10 Books from Seattle Times (12/10)
Book Of The Year Awards from Ottakar's (12/08)
Favorite Fiction from L.A. Times (12/04)
10 Best Books from New York Times Books Review (12/04)
Favorite Nonfiction from L.A. Times (12/04)
Best Fiction from Christian Science Monitor (12/03)
Best Nonfiction from Christian Science Monitor (12/03)
World Fantasy Awards from World Fantasy Convention (12/02)
15 Favorite Travel Books from Longitude Books (12/02)
Dagger Awards from Crime Writers' Association (12/02)
Ten Best Works Of Literature from About.com (11/28)
Favourite Books Of The Year from The Guardian (11/27)
Best Children's Books from Publishers Weekly (11/25)
100 Notable Books from New York Times (11/25)
Best Of 2005 -- Editor's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
Best Of 2005 -- Customer's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
Best Of 2005 from Metacritic (11/05)
Booker Prize from Man Booker Prize (11/05)
Books Of The Year from National Book Awards (11/05)
FILM (115 lists)
Top Trailers from JoBlo.com (01/15)
Best Of Year from Critics' Choice Awards (01/11)
Best Of Year from Chicago Film Critics Nominations (01/11)
2005 Awards from New York Film Critics Circle (01/11)
The Best (And Worst) Movies from MTV (Kurt Loder) (01/11)
Best Movie Posters from Internet Movie Poster Awards (01/11)
Favorite Movie Moments from The Whine Colored Sea (01/11)
Great Small Performances from L.A. Weekly (01/09)
A Year Of Living Strenuously from The New Yorker (01/09)
Best Undistributed Films from Cinemarati (01/09)
Best Cinematography from Cinemarati (01/09)
Best Screenplay from Cinemarati (01/09)
Best Documentary from Cinemarati (01/09)
Top Films from New York Press (01/09)
Best Films from L.A. Weekly (01/09)
Best Films from L.A. Weekly (01/09)
Best Films Of The Last Two Years from Chicago Reader (01/09)
The Year In Film from Austin Chronicle (01/09)
The Year In Film from City Pages (01/03)
The Best And Worst Of '05 from L.A. Times (01/03)
Best And Worst from Boise Weekly (01/03)
Best Films Of The Year from CNN.com (01/03)
Best Moments In Film from Pittsburgh Live (01/02)
Worst Films from MSNBC (12/31)
Best Performances from Modern Fabulous (12/31)
Top 15 from GreenCine Daily (12/31)
2005 Film In Review from San Francisco Chronicle (12/31)
Best Films from African-American Film Critics Association (12/31)
10 Best Forgotten Films from Salon (12/31)
12 Best Films from World Socialist Web Site (12/31)
Movies Of The Year from The Oregonian (12/31)
Review Of The Year: Cinema from The Independent (12/31)
Top Films from NPR's All Things Considered (12/31)
Top 10 from Toronto Star (12/31)
2005 Film In Review from San Francisco Chronicle (12/31)
Top 10 The Worst Movies from About.com (12/30)
Top 10 Of Top 10 Lists from Reeler (12/29)
The 10 Best Movie Scenes from MSNBC.com (12/29)
Top 10 Films from MSNBC.com (12/29)
Top 10 Lists from Indie Wire (12/29)
Year In Film from City Paper (12/29)
Top Ten Unreleased Films from Film Brain (12/29)
Best Of The Year from Indy Weekly (12/29)
Ten Best Movies from Indy Weekly (12/29)
Year's Worst Miscues from Seattle Weekly (12/28)
Best And Worst Movies from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
10 Best Films from Seattle Weekly (12/28)
Top 25 Searched For Stars from IMDB (12/28)
The Year In Film from San Francisco Bay Guardian (12/28)
The 10 Best Movies from Salon (12/28)
Year In Movies from Boston Globe (12/27)
Year's Best Films from Boston Globe (12/27)
Ten Best Lists from Indie Wire (12/27)
Best Movies from Jam (12/27)
Best Films Of The Year from New York Times (Manohla Dargis) (12/26)
Year In Review from L. A. Times (12/26)
Best Trailers from Cinematical (12/26)
Ten Best Films from New York Times (A. O. Scott) (12/26)
Top Films from Critics Top 10 (12/26)
Take Seven: Film Critics Poll from Village Voice (12/26)
Best Films Of The Year from New York Times (Stephen Holden) (12/26)
Top Films from Ain't It Cool News (12/26)
Ten Worst Movies from St. Petersburg Times (12/26)
Twelve Months, Twelve Films from The Guardian (12/26)
Best Acting Ensembles from Cinematical (12/26)
Worst Movies from Cinematical (12/26)
Film Review from Telegraph (12/26)
Ten Best/Worst Unseen Films from Film Threat (12/23)
The Year In Film from The Onion A/V Club (Keith Phipps) (12/22)
Top 5 Films from SXSW (12/22)
Top 10 Overlooked Movies from The New Republic (12/22)
Best Films from The Post & Courier (12/22)
The Year In Film from The Onion A/V Club (Noel Murray) (12/22)
The Year In Film from The Onion A/V Club (Nathan Rabin) (12/22)
The Year In Film from The Onion A/V Club (Tasha Robinson) (12/22)
The Year In Film from The Onion A/V Club (Scott Tobias) (12/22)
Best Of 2005 from Time (12/22)
Best Of 2005 from Time (12/22)
Best Pictures from Phoenix Film Critics (12/22)
Best Films from Toronto Film Critcs (12/22)
Best Of The Year from Newsweek (12/22)
Ten Best Films from Boston Phoenix (12/22)
Definitive Guide To Music Movies from Tiny Mix Tape (12/21)
10 Hottest Minds In Hollywood from Fast Company (12/21)
10 Best Movies Of 2005 from Rolling Stone (12/21)
Best Movies from New York Magazine (12/21)
Bombs To The Bomb from Rotten Tomatoes (12/20)
Best Of 2005: Anime from Now Playing Magazine (12/20)
Top 10 Movies from AP Movie Critics (12/19)
Looking Back At '05 from IndieWire (12/18)
10 movies I Most Enjoyed from The Observer (12/18)
Best 10 Movies Of 2005 from Roger Ebert (12/18)
Best And Worst from Hollywood Elsewhere (12/16)
The Year In Review from Esoteric Rabbit (12/14)
Films Of The Year from Sight & Sound (12/14)
The Awards Scoreboard from Movie City News (12/13)
Year In Film from Slant Magazine (12/13)
SFFCC Awards from San Francisco Film Critics Circle (12/13)
Best Movies from New York Magazine (12/12)
Best Movies from Entertainment Weekly -- Stephen King (12/12)
AFI Awards from American Film Institute (12/12)
NYFCO Awards from New York Film Critics Online (12/12)
2005 Awards from New York Film Critics (12/12)
Our Top Tens from IFCTV.com (12/12)
Best Of 2005 from Firecracker (12/12)
2005 Award Winners from Boston Film Critics (12/12)
Best And Rest Of The Year from Newsweek (12/12)
BFCA Awards from Broadcast Film Critics Association (12/12)
2005 Award Winners from Los Angeles Film Critics Association (12/12)
The Best And The Rest from Newsweek (12/11)
The Frigid 50: The Coldest People In Hollywood from Film Threat (12/08)
Best Film Of 2005 from Art Forum (12/07)
Top HollyWORDS Of The Year from Global Language Monitor (12/06)
Best Movie Mistakes from Movie Mistakes (12/05)
Best Of 2005 from Metacritic (11/05)
SCIENCE (13 lists)
Year In Science from Seed (01/05)
Top Science Stories from Scientific American (01/05)
Biggest Discoveries from Wired News (12/30)
Breakthrough Of The Year from Science Mag (12/29)
Year In Science from USA Today (12/29)
Top 10 Strangest And Funniest Data Disasters from Physorg.com (12/29)
The Worst Jobs In Science from Popular Science (12/29)
Top 10 News Stories from National Geographic (12/28)
Year In Science from SMH.com.au (12/25)
Top 10 Little-Known Science Stories from ZDNet.com (12/22)
Year In Review from Chemical & Engineering News (12/19)
Biggest Stories In Bioscience from The Scientist (12/07)
Best Inventions from Time (11/15)
VISUAL ARTS (3 lists)
Highs And Lows from New York Times (12/29)
Best Artists from New York Magazine (12/21)
Best Art Of 2005 from Art Forum (12/07)
MUSIC VIDEOS (5 lists)
10 Best Music Videos from Entertainment Weekly (12/30)
Top 50 Music Videos from DoCopenhagen (12/29)
Top 20 Videos from Marathon Packs (12/13)
Best Videos from Antville.org (12/13)
Worst Videos from Antville.org (12/13)
COMEDY (30 lists)
207 Unforgettable Comedy Moments from Vulture (12/30)
10 Best Stand-up Comedy Specials from Decider (12/26)
50 Best Comedy Sketches from Vulture (12/15)
40 Best Comedians from Paste (11/19)
15 Best Sketch Comedy Shows from Paste (11/19)
50 Best Comedy Movies from Film School Rejects (11/16)
40 Best Stand-up Specials from Paste (11/15)
Best Humor Writing from Splitsider (12/31)
Funny People We Lost from Splitsider (12/30)
Events That Inspired the Best Comedy from Splitsider (12/30)
Comedy Trends from Splitsider (12/30)
10 Moments of Unintentional Comedy from Splitsider (12/30)
10 Moments Comedians Made Us Think from Splitsider (12/30)
Gotcha Media's Favorite Videos of 2010 from Gotcha Media (12/30)
The Best of Shouts & Murmurs from The New Yorker (12/29)
Best Comedy Albums from A.V. Club (12/29)
Best and Worst from Time Out (12/25)
Top Ten Late-Night Jokes from Time (12/08)
Five Best Comedy DVDs from Punchline Magazine (12/30)
Funniest Political Moments from New York Times' Laugh Lines (12/28)
Year in Comedy from Las Vegas Weekly (12/26)
10 Best Comedy Albums from Punchline Magazine (12/23)
Best and Worst from Time Out (12/20)
Top 10 Late Night Gags from Time (12/12)
Top 10 Losers from Comedy Wire (01/02)
Best and Worst Comedy from Time Out New York (01/10)
Top 5 Comedians from Badger Herald (12/02)
Political Dot-Comedy Awards from About.com (12/20)
10 Funniest Political Video Clips from About.com (12/20)
Top 10 Political Humor Videos from About.com (12/20)
BUSINESS (8 lists)
100 Best Companies To Work For from Fortune (01/11)
Best Business Books Of 2005 from Fast Company (01/09)
Winners And Losers from Business Week (12/13)
100 Best Companies from Working Mother (12/10)
10 Best Real Estate Books from Mortgage 101 (12/10)
Top 25 Military-Friendly Companies from GI Jobs (12/07)
The 7 Best Fund Managers from MSN Money (11/29)
America's Best Leaders from U.S. News (11/05)
PEOPLE (37 lists)
50 Most Loathsome People from The Beast (01/23)
The Year In Culture from Slate (01/11)
The Whores Of The Year from Hollywood Bitchslap (01/03)
Mug Shots Of The Year from The Smoking Gun (01/03)
Personalities Of 2005 from Modern Fabulous (12/31)
Douchbag Of The Year from Daily Show Online (12/31)
Top 100 People from USA Today's Pop Candy (12/29)
Celebrity Scandals from Jossip (12/29)
La Dolce Musto from Michael Musto (12/29)
Year's Most Notable Video from ABCNews.com (12/29)
Most Outrageous Statements from Dirty Geek (12/29)
Entertainers Of The Year from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
100 Least Annoying from Am I Annoying (12/28)
100 Most Annoying from Am I Annoying (12/28)
10 Sexiest Geeks from Wired News (12/27)
Top Quotes Of 2005 from Boston Globe (12/27)
Best Of The Soup from E!'s The Soup (12/26)
Most Outrageous Statements from Media Matters (12/25)
New Yorkers Of The Year from New York Magazine (12/21)
The Maverick's Of '05 from Rolling Stone (12/21)
Asshole Of The Year from A.O.T.Y. (12/20)
Top 10 Bushisms from About.com (12/20)
The Year In Celebrity Babies from iVillage (12/19)
Biggest Romances from People (12/18)
Person Of The Year from Time (12/18)
A Fond Farewell from Time (12/18)
People Who Mattered from Time (12/18)
Top 20 Moments from E! (12/15)
Best Undressed from E! (12/15)
Person Of The Year from BET (12/15)
Weirdest Celebrities from The Year In Weird (12/14)
Best Leaders from Business Week (12/13)
25 Britons Who Wield Influence In America from The Times of London (11/30)
The 10 Most Fascinating People from Barbara Walters (11/29)
The World's Billionaires from Forbes (11/20)
Man Of The Year from GQ (11/20)
Out 100 from Out (11/13)
GADGETS (18 lists)
Engadget Awards from Engadget (01/15)
Best (And Worst) Gadgets from Wired News (12/30)
Top Underrated Apps from Lifehacker (12/29)
10 Greatest Gadget Ideas from New York Times (12/29)
A Dozen Mac Gems Unearthed In 2005 from Apple Matters (12/29)
Weirdest Tech from ZDNet.com (12/22)
Top 100 Products from C|Net (12/15)
Top 10 Products from C|Net (12/14)
10 Worst Products from PC Mag (12/13)
Best Products from Business Week (12/13)
Products Of The Year from PC Mag (12/13)
Best iPod-Related Products from Playlist (12/11)
2005 Gift Guide from Fast Company (12/09)
Gadgets Of The Year from Tech Digest (12/05)
Best Products For Videographers from EventDV (11/30)
100 Best Products from PC World (11/25)
Best Of What's New from Popular Science (11/18)
Best iPod Accessories from iLounge (11/05)
TV (22 lists)
Best And Worst from TV Squad (01/09)
Best And Worst from TV Squad (01/03)
Best And Worst from TV Squad (01/03)
Best Characters from New York Times (12/29)
10 Grossest Things We Saw On TV from Entertainment Weekly (12/29)
Year In Television from Seattle PI (12/29)
Best Serial Dramas from New York Times (12/29)
Best Shows Of The Year from New York Times (12/29)
Top 10 TV Moments from TV Scoop (12/29)
Worst TV Shows from New York Daily News (12/29)
Top 10 TV Moments from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
The Best In TV from Out (12/28)
Best TV from Palm Beach Post (12/28)
The Best And Worst In Television from Salon (12/28)
The Year In Reality TV from Reality Blurred (12/28)
Best Of 2005 from Time (12/27)
Best & Worst HDTV List from TV Predictions (12/26)
Best Television from Modern Fabulous (12/26)
Top Reality TV Whores from Reality Blurred (12/23)
Sexiest Reality TV Stars from Reality Blurred (12/23)
Best TV from New York Magazine (12/21)
Top Television Buzzword from Global Language Monitor (12/06)
GAMES (18 lists)
10 Most Interesting People In Gaming from GamerGod (01/09)
Best Of 2005 from Jay Is Games (01/09)
Ten Best Kids Games from Game Daily (01/06)
Games Of The Year from The Guardian (01/02)
Best Games from The Onion A/V Club (01/02)
Top 10 Games from Game Tunnel (01/02)
Top 10 Games from All Download Games (12/30)
Top 20 Ultra-Violent Video Games from Family Media Guide (12/30)
Games Of The Year from Eurogamer (12/29)
Games Of The Year from IGN (12/29)
Year In Games from New York Times (12/29)
30 Finest Games from Next-Gen (12/23)
Games Of The Year from GameSpy (12/21)
Best Web Games from Jay Is Games (12/21)
Best Of 2005 from Metacritic (12/08)
Games Of The Year from The Morning News (12/06)
10 Most Violent Video Games from Family Media Guide (12/02)
Games Of The Year: Best Of E3 from Game Critics Awards (11/09)
SPORTS (9 lists)
Top Moments from NBC Sports (12/29)
The Year In Pictures from Sports Illustrated (12/28)
SportsNation Poll from ESPN.com (12/28)
The Year In Sports from Salon (12/28)
Top 10 Sports DVDs from DVD Talk (12/28)
2005 Pro Champions from Sports Illustrated (12/19)
Sport's Best Moments from The Observer (12/18)
Notable Sports Books from New York Times Books Review (12/04)
Turkeys Of The Year from Sports Illustrated (11/23)
PARANORMAL (2 lists)
Top Cryptozoology Stories from Loren Coleman (12/23)
Top Cryptozoology Books from Loren Coleman (12/19)
FOOD & Drink (8 lists)
Best And Worst Wines from South African Whines News (01/11)
101 Best Restaurants from New York Magazine (01/05)
Top 10 Wines from TCS Daily (12/29)
Top 100 Wines from San Francisco Chronicle (12/21)
Best Food Books from The Splended Table (12/13)
20 Best Food Books from Leite's Culinaria (12/08)
Best Beverages from BevNET.com (12/07)
Best New Restaurants from Esquire (11/05)
HEALTH (3 lists)
Year In Medicine from Time (12/13)
Best Of What's New from Popular Science (11/18)
Best Hospitals from U.S. News (11/05)
EDUCATION (1 lists)
America's Best Colleges from U.S. News (11/05)
PHOTOS (18 lists)
Photos Of The Year from World Press (02/12)
Best Photoshops from Fark (01/07)
The Year In Pictures from New York Times (01/02)
Best Photoblogs from Modern Fabulous (12/31)
Images From Biggest News Events from Wall Street Journal (12/30)
Year In Photos from CBSNews.com (12/29)
Year In Review from Yahoo News (12/29)
Year In Pictures from USAToday.com (12/29)
Year In Pictures from BBC (12/29)
Year In Pictures from ABCNews.com (12/29)
25 Most Interesting Web Cams from EarthCam (12/28)
Year In Pictures from MSNBC (12/23)
Pictures Of The Year from Reuters (12/22)
25 Funniest Political Pictures from About.com (12/20)
Best Photos Of The Year from Time (12/12)
50 Photos Of People Smiling from LowCulture (11/18)
Best Of What's New from Popular Science (11/18)
Best Photojournalism from National Press Photographers Association (11/05)
AUTOMOBILES (11 lists)
Top 10 Autos from Marketwatch.com (01/02)
Top 10 Car Dealer Scams from CarBuyingTips.com (12/30)
Truck Of The Year from Motor Trend (12/20)
The Worst Cars Of 2005 from Forbes (12/19)
The Best Cars Of 2005 from Forbes (12/19)
Cars Of The Year from Top Gear (12/10)
Best Cars from Kiplinger's (12/07)
Car Of The Year from Motor Trend (11/27)
Best Of What's New from Popular Science (11/18)
Best Cars from CNN Money (11/05)
Best Green Cars from GreenerCars.com (11/05)
THEATER (6 lists)
Year In Theater from Boston Globe (01/03)
Best Theater Of 2005 from Modern Fabulous (12/29)
Year In Theater: The Ensembles from New York Times (12/29)
Year In Theater: The Players from New York Times (12/29)
Year In Theater from Out (12/28)
Best Theater from New York Magazine (12/21)
COMICS (9 lists)
Top 50 Comics from The Comics Reporter's (03/26)
Best Graphic Novels from Splash Panel (01/09)
Political Cartoonists from NPR's Morning Edition (12/29)
The Year In Review from This Modern World (12/28)
Best Of 2005 from Time (12/27)
Cartoons Of The Year from Newsweek (12/22)
Best Of 2005: Comics from Now Playing Magazine (12/20)
Best Webcomics Of 2005 from Webcomics Review (12/11)
Best Comics from Publishers Weekly (11/25)
MUSIC (182 lists)
Best Albums from Time Out New York (01/30)
10 Albums That Stank Up The Room from L.A. Weekly (01/09)
Music Of The Year from Vue Weekly (01/09)
The Overlooked Albums from Slate (01/09)
Top 10 Indie Albums: Forgotten Favorites from About.com (01/09)
The Best Songs Of 2005 from Tiny Mix Tape (01/09)
Best Songs from Poplicks (01/04)
Best Albums from Poplicks (01/04)
Best Songs from Poplicks (01/04)
Best Albums from Rate Your Music (01/04)
Best Music Of 2005 from cbs4denver.com (01/03)
The Year In Touring from The Big Picture (01/03)
Best Albums from Metromix (01/03)
Best Picks from Grand Rapids Press (01/03)
Best of '05 from Toronto Star (12/31)
Top 10 Revisited from BBC (12/31)
Best World Music from PRI's The World (12/31)
40 Best Albums from Spin (12/31)
Year's Best from Memphis Flyer (12/31)
Year's Best Music from The Courier-Journal (12/31)
Best Electronic Albums from Edmonton Sun (12/31)
Best Metal Releases from BW&BK (12/31)
Gems Of 2005 from Washington Post (12/30)
Top 10 Albums from New Times (12/30)
Top 10 Remixes from Stylus (12/30)
Least Essential Albums from The Onion A/V Club (12/30)
The Best Of 2005 from WFMU (12/30)
2005 Sounds Fine from Edmonton Sun (12/30)
Top 50 Albums from New-Noise.net (12/30)
The Top Discs from Rockford Register Star (12/30)
Italian Blog Music Awards from Il Pozzo di Cabal (12/30)
Top 24 Independent Albums Of 2005 from Donut Muse (12/30)
Best Of '05 from Boulder Dirt (12/30)
CDs Of The Year from The Globe And Mail (12/30)
Top 10 Albums from Pioneer Press (12/29)
The Year In News from Billboard (12/29)
Year's Best Albums from Baltimore Sun (12/29)
The Year In Touring from Billboard (12/29)
Critics' & Artist' Choices from Billboard (12/29)
Best of '05: Rock from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
Best of '05: Pop from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
Best of '05: Subterranean from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
Best of '05: Down South All-Stars from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
The Anti-"Best of 2005" from The Big Picture (12/29)
Best of '05: Hip-Hop from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
Top 50 Albums from Big Yawn (12/29)
The Year In Charts from Billboard (12/29)
Top 20 Albums from Stereogum (12/29)
Best of '05: MTV.com Staff Picks from MTV Overdrive (12/29)
2005 In The Mix from Seattle Weekly (12/28)
10 Really Good Jazz Albums from Village Voice (12/28)
Top 40 Singles from City Paper (12/28)
Favorite Albums from City Paper (12/28)
The Year In Music from City Paper (12/28)
The Best Albums from Exclaim.ca (12/28)
Top 10 Albums from Music Emissions (12/28)
The Top 10 albums from Orlando Sun-Sentinel (12/28)
Top 10 Jazz Albums from Village Voice (12/28)
The Best In Music from Out (12/28)
Listamania from Fader (12/28)
Top Tracks from Elbo.ws (12/28)
The best CDs Of 2005 from Times-Leader (12/28)
Top 10 Labels from Stylus (12/28)
Best And Worst Music from Entertainment Weekly (12/28)
Best Of 2005 from AOL Music (12/28)
Best In Music from Palm Beach Post (12/28)
Best Of 2005: The Albums from Palm Beach Post (12/28)
Hip-Hop Overview from Six Shot (12/28)
Best Of 2005: The Singles from Palm Beach Post (12/28)
Top 10 Jazz Albums from Village Voice (12/28)
Worst Albums from DC Examiner (12/27)
Best CDs from Boston Globe (12/27)
Top Albums from The Independent (12/27)
Best Jazz from Boston Globe (12/27)
Best Of 2005 from Time (12/27)
The Year In Music from Barnes & Noble (12/27)
10 Favorite Mash-Ups from Culture Belly (12/27)
Best Music From 2005 from Des Moines Register (12/27)
Top 50 Records from Indie Workshop (12/27)
Albums Of The Year from USA Today (12/27)
97 Best Of 2005 from WOXYQ (12/27)
Best Albums from East Valley Tribune (12/27)
30 Best from CMJ (12/26)
Top Albums: Reader List from Almost Cool (12/26)
Pop Music from Telegraph (12/26)
Best Avant Rock Records from The Wire (12/24)
Best Records from Aspen Times (12/23)
Best Albums from Billings Gazette (12/23)
Top 25 Tunes from Herald Today (12/23)
Best Albums from Pop Journalism (12/23)
The Best Of The Best from Inside Bay Area (12/23)
Top 10 from Filter (Gilles Peterson) (12/23)
Top 10 from Filter (Matt Tong of Bloc Party) (12/23)
Top 50 Records from The Wire (12/23)
Best Albums from Pop Journalism (12/22)
The Jazz A-List from Slate.com (12/22)
Best Music from IGN.com (12/22)
Best Music Of 2005 from NPR's All Things Considered (12/22)
Top 10 Albums from Philadelphia Weekly (12/22)
Best Albums from CTNow.com (12/22)
Top Ten Albums from Chattanooga Pulse (12/22)
Overlooked In '05 from River Front Times (12/22)
Best Albums from The Capital Times (12/22)
The Top 10 Albums from The Morning News (12/22)
Top Ten Songs from Chattanooga Pulse (12/22)
Year's Worst Music from News.com.au (12/22)
Best Of 2005 from Chart Attack (12/22)
Top 20 Album Covers from Tiny Mix Tape (12/21)
Top 50 Records from Rolling Stone (12/21)
Best Music from New York Magazine (12/21)
Hip-Hop 2005 from Rolling Stone (12/21)
Best Jazz from New York Times (12/21)
Best Songs of 2005 from Tiny Mix Tape (12/21)
Top 25 Albums from Tiny Mix Tape (12/21)
Top 10 Concerts from Travelers Diagram (12/20)
Top 50 Singles from Pitchfork (12/20)
Top 50 Albums from Pitchfork (12/20)
Best Reissues from PopMatters (12/19)
Staff Favorites from Res (12/19)
Best Electronic Albums from PopMatters (12/19)
Best 50 Albums from PopMatters (12/19)
Best Country Albums from PopMatters (12/19)
Best Jazz Albums from PopMatters (12/19)
Best Music Of 2005 from San Francisco Chronicle (12/18)
Best CDs Of The Year from Mercury News (12/18)
Chicago's Top 10 from Chicago Tribune (12/18)
Favorite Albums Of 2005 from More Cowbell (12/18)
Best/Worst Of '05 from Dose (12/18)
Top 10 Unsigned Bands/Artists from Crap Filter (12/18)
Most Notable Classical CDs from New York Times (12/18)
Top CDs Of 2005 from Boston Globe (12/18)
Top 100 CDs from InSound (12/18)
Best Albums of 2005 from Shanghaiist (12/16)
15 Worst Releases Of 2005 from Pitchfork (12/16)
Top Live Shows And Music Videos from Pitchfork (12/16)
Artists' Best of 2005 from Pitchfork (12/16)
Top 20 CDs from E! (12/15)
The Year In Music from The Onion A/V Club (12/14)
Year-End Recap from Other Music (12/14)
This Year from Chromewaves.net (12/13)
2005's Best Recorded Music from City Pages (12/13)
Music Of Note from The Minor Fall, The Major Lift (12/13)
Best Of 2005 from Chicago Public Radio (Jim DeRogatis) (12/12)
Best Of 2005 from Chicago Public Radio (Greg Kot) (12/12)
Albums Of The Year from Chicago Tribune (12/12)
Top Albums from Glide (12/11)
Top 10 Box Sets from About.com (12/11)
Ten Favourite Pop Moments from CD Times (12/11)
Top 50 Singles from Stylus (12/10)
Staff Top Ten from Tuft's Daily (12/09)
Top 10 from Filter (Darren Seltmann of the Avalanches) (12/08)
57 Best Albums from Product Shop NYC (12/08)
Best Records from East Bay Express (12/08)
Top 100 from Rough Trade (12/08)
Top 10 Classic Rock Box Sets from About.com (12/08)
Top 10 from Filter (Guillermo Scott Herren of Prefuse 73) (12/08)
Top 10 from Filter (Nick Harmer of Death Cab For Cutie) (12/07)
My 22 Favourite Songs from Said The Gramophone (12/07)
Top 65 from Driver2165 (12/07)
Best Music Of 2005 from Art Forum (12/07)
Best Of Year from New York Sun (12/07)
Top 10 from Filter (The Crystal Method) (12/07)
Top 10 from The Daily Evergreen (12/07)
20 Favorite Albums from DoneWaiting.com (12/06)
Best Albums Of The Year from ABC.net.au (12/05)
33 Hottest Bands In Canada from I Heart Music (12/05)
Top 10 from Filter (Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs) (12/04)
Top 10 from Filter (Jason Lytle of Grandaddy) (12/04)
Top 10 from Filter (Shirley Manson of Garbage) (12/04)
Top Records Of 2005 from Q Magazine (12/04)
Top 20 Albums from Crazy Monk (12/04)
New York's Best Jazz from AllAboutJazz (12/03)
Best Albums from The Strand (12/02)
Favorite Albums from Largehearted Boy (12/02)
Top 25 from Travelers Diagram (11/30)
47 Hottest Bands In The UK from Take Your Medicine (11/27)
Top 40 Bands in America Today from Information Leafblower (11/20)
Best Of 2005 -- Classical Editor's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
Best Of 2005 -- Customer's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
Best Of 2005 -- Editor's Picks from Amazon.com (11/09)
Top 100 DJs from DJ Magazine (11/05)
Best Of 2005 from Metacritic (11/05)
MISCELLANEOUS (19 lists)
Making A List from New York Times (01/09)
Top Ten Church-State Developments from Religion Claus (01/08)
100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year from BBC (01/02)
100 Most Annoying Things from Retro Crush (12/31)
Top 12 Animal Stories from Human Society (12/30)
A Top 10 List Of Top 10 Lists from Cox News Service (12/30)
2005 Entry from Wikipedia (12/29)
Favorite Fonts from Typographica (12/29)
The Curbed Awards (Real Estate) from Curbed (12/29)
Top 10 Baby Names from Babycenter (12/29)
Most Frequently Reported Birds from Birdsource (12/29)
The Ten Best Top-Ten Lists from AlterNet (12/29)
Top 10 Grocery Lists from GroceryLists.org (12/29)
Ten Most Wanted from FBI (12/29)
Top 40 Weather Days from WXnation.com (12/21)
Shiny Style Shoe Awards from Shoewawa (12/20)
Top 10 Kitchen Utensils Of This Year from Utter Wonder (12/16)
Best Cast & Dogs from Dogster / Catster (12/09)
Countries With Largest Population from U.S. Census Bureau (12/07)
See previously: 2004 | 2003 | 2001.
