‘Tis the Season of the List

It’s December and annual lists are sprouting like truffles in pig excrement.  Here are a few to tickle your palate, your funny bone, or perhaps your cerebral cortex.

1) 81 Movies for Geeks that Do Not Suck

2) Sites That Top Diggers Read

3) Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2006

4) 33 Names of Things You Never Knew Had Names

5) Ten Best Reference Works

6) Songs for Aliens

7) Best American Stores that Specialize in Chocolate

8) The Seven Wonders in Each of America’s Fifty States

9) Twenty Unique Uses for a Post-It Note

10) Aggregation of All the Lists Fimoculous Could Find

11) Fifty Top Music Videos of 2006

12) Fifty Works of Art You Should See Before You Pass This Mortal Coil

13) 2006 Weblog Award Nominees in Many Categories

14) Best Political Books of 2006

15) Ten Most Popular Typefaces for Newspapers

16) Best Books According to Slate

17) The Economist Looks into the Crystal Ball for 2007

18) The Christian Science Monitor Selects the Best Fiction of 2006