2002 review

January 1, 2003

At the end of the year, what better way to find something to post than go through and find this year's greatest hits and trends.

Best titles:

• Dis is where we get bling-bling on da blog, dawg


• The web's sleazy underbelly and safety turtle


• Greenwich Threatened by rampaging Scientologists


• Attention: Sybwa yanno untsmint saren otclear


• Gr33nSp4n 0wnZ U

Comment of the year:

• But where's the alcoholic robot?

Most interesting discussion:

• On legal research

Best research:

• Tenafly Eruv


• Official Stuff

Best newspaper article quoting me:

• I'm an other expert

Proof that I am smarter than the average bear:

• Mac users are smarter


• Bow before your super-intelligent musical overlords!

Most interesting thoughts on the music biz:

• Who's afraid of the big bad web?


• Money for Something

Site of the year:

• Mixerman's New Adventures in Hi-Fi

Most Fun with studies, surveys and statistics:

• More U.S. homes have outhouses (671,000) than TiVos


• SandwichTrak


• Slicing into a Share of the Deli


• Sports fans and Alcohol


• Procrastination and beer


• British Pub Anthropology


• Suprise: Russians like Beer, too


• Foreigners on Moscow

Best advice:

• Cheney's Advice?


• How to surf for porn at work

Items most lost in translation

• Engrish


• Lost in translation

Only ten posts reference the Simpsons. I thought I had more. Four posts mention hobbits, dwarfs and midgets. I did link those in the original version of this post that disappeared somewhere during the handoff from NetNewsWire to Movable Type. Oops.