{"id":2083,"date":"2008-12-29T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2009-01-01T09:24:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T13:24:53","slug":"this-year-in-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"This Year In Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>op ten lists of 2008 tire me out: Some of them are interesting but most of them are generally not. A summary here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eurogamer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/eurogamer-readers-top-50-games-of-2008-article\">Reader&#8217;s Top 50 games<\/a>: Eurogamer currently runs the Editor&#8217;s Top 50 games of the year, which not nearly as interesting. It doesn&#8217;t surprise me that Fallout 3 tops the list of many reviewers as the best game of this year. If I find time, I might add my thoughts to the long list of people who reviewed this game.<\/li>\n<li>BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/7799137.stm\">Female Faces of the Year<\/a>. The men&#8217;s section will be online by tomorrow, but it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if Obama topped that list. Or George W. Bush.\n<\/li>\n<li>Scientific American&#8217;s excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=top-10-places-already-affected-by-climate-change\">&#8216;Top 10 places already affected by global warming&#8217;<\/a>. Additionally, <em>SciAm&#8217;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=10-science-stories-2008\">biggest science stories of 2008<\/a> is worth a glance too. ArsTechnica came up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20081228-isciencei-names-top-10-scientific-breakthroughs-of-2008.html\">top 10 of scientific breakthroughs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wired (as usual) comes up with 10 significant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/miscellaneous\/news\/2008\/12\/YE8_techbreaks\">breakthrough&#8217;s in Computer technology<\/a>. Wired&#8217;s traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/culturereviews\/news\/2008\/12\/YE8_vaporware?currentPage=all\">vapourware top 10<\/a> is online as well, and not surprisingly, &#8216;Duke Nuke&#8217;Em Forever&#8217; tops that list, again. <\/li>\n<li>The CBC has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/photogallery\/canada\/1859\/\">2008 Photogallery up<\/a>, which features a picture with Dion and a smiling Ignatieff behind him, which kind of reminds of Ceasar and Brute<sup>1<\/sup>: Also see here for their selection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2008\/12\/30\/f-newsyear.html\">the biggest stories of 2008<\/a>. The public broadcaster has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/media\/story\/2008\/12\/23\/f-2008-media.html\">its top 10 2008 media events right here<\/a>, and yes, it features the silly CNN hologram. While I&#8217;m at it, the Globe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20081226.wschneller1227\/BNStory\/Entertainment\/home\">top 10 movies of 2008<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Talking about the CBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/slideshows\/film_08\/\">Katrina Onstad&#8217;s 2008 movie picks<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/arts\/slideshows\/Year_in_Film_2007_audio_slideshow\/\">last year&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1697\">or here on xsamplex, in Dec 2007<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> I can&#8217;t wait for Hollywood writers and directors make a movie out of this. Who&#8217;d be playing Dion, I wonder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top ten lists of 2008 tire me out: Some of them are interesting but most of them are generally not. A summary here: Eurogamer Reader&#8217;s Top 50 games: Eurogamer currently runs the Editor&#8217;s Top 50 games of the year, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}