The main character in English novelist Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity has the habit of making Top Five (or Ten, or Three...) lists of just about anything, from albums to books to potential girlfriends. And while this can be a rather superficial way of describing the world, it does offer the advantage of synthesizing and simplifying the complexities of one’s passions.
NeU offers readers a synthetic collection of the Best of 2008, an excellent way to filter and package the highlights of the past year. Here they are: From Campaign, the ten best viral commercial videos – that is, ads designed for the web. From Advertising Age, Creativity's ten favorite video ads. From Colormecrazy, the ten best online color tools, and from Logodesignlove the best design resources of all time (fully 81). From Rolling Stone, the year’s best albums, and from MTV the best videos, albums, new artists, etc. From National Geographic the ten best scientific images and the ten most widely viewed news images. From Time and CNN, the 10 best of everything, from animal stories to gadgets, from cartoons to green innovations, from exhibitions to scientific discoveries. Happy New Year to all. at
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