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End of year lists.  Love 'em or hate 'em, they're all around us.  With lists ranging from politics to pop culture, from technology to trivia, and from thoroughly worthless to merely time-squandering, readers can't be blamed for succumbing to ranking fatigue.  Mercifully, I've done the legwork for you, enabling you to enjoy only the best of these meticulously cataloged countdowns.

It's my great honor and terrible burden to present the Suitably Flip 2005 Definitive Top 10 Top 10 Lists (and their respectively excerpted number ones):

10. AOL's Top 10 Spam List 

1. "Donald Trump Wants You - Please Respond"

9. Real Clear Politics' Top 10 Foolish Myths

1. Life is getting worse.

8. New Media Musings' Top 10 Tech Transformations

1. The edges gain power.  From the video and music worlds to politics and culture, power is increasingly flowing away from the media, from the political elites and from the corporate suits and into the hands of ordinary users who are collectively wielding more influence in all walks of life, mostly thanks to the Internet. The forces of freedom are steadily chipping away at the power of the forces of control. It's pure beauty.

7. Merriam-Webster's Top 10 Words of the Year

1. integrity
   Pronunciation: in-'te-gr&-tE
   Function: noun
   1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY
   2 : an unimpaired condition : SOUNDNESS
   3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided : COMPLETENESS
   synonym see HONESTY

6. Trivial Pursuit's Top 10 Trivial Moments

1. Cruisin' Out of Control - How did Tom Cruise turn falling into love into a can't-look-away train wreck?

5. Wired's 10 Best Tech Moments

1. NASA rovers survive a full Martian year

4. National Geographic's Top 10 News Photos 

1. Live Giant Squid Photographed - A First

3. Right Wing News' Top 10 Worst Quotes From The Democratic Underground

1. S1 on a helicopter with 9 American Blackwater employees in it being shot down in Iraq: Good. F*ck em. Live by the sword, go down in a Russian helo by the missile. Perhaps the rest of Blackwater will get slaughtered too, good riddance to bad sh*t.

2. 2Spare's Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff You Didn't Know

1. Picking one's nose and eating it might be healthy.

1. Captain Ed's 10 Worst Americans (prepared in response to All Things Beautiful's challenge):

1. John Edgar Hoover

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Meta Top 10

End of year lists.  Love 'em or hate 'em, they're all around us.  With lists ranging from politics to pop culture, from technology to trivia, and from thoroughly worthless to merely time-squandering, readers can't be blamed for succumbing to ranking fatigue.  Mercifully, I've done the legwork for you, enabling you to enjoy only the best of these meticulously cataloged countdowns.

It's my great honor and terrible burden to present the Suitably Flip 2005 Definitive Top 10 Top 10 Lists (and their respectively excerpted number ones):

10. AOL's Top 10 Spam List 

1. "Donald Trump Wants You - Please Respond"

9. Real Clear Politics' Top 10 Foolish Myths

1. Life is getting worse.

8. New Media Musings' Top 10 Tech Transformations

1. The edges gain power.  From the video and music worlds to politics and culture, power is increasingly flowing away from the media, from the political elites and from the corporate suits and into the hands of ordinary users who are collectively wielding more influence in all walks of life, mostly thanks to the Internet. The forces of freedom are steadily chipping away at the power of the forces of control. It's pure beauty.

7. Merriam-Webster's Top 10 Words of the Year

1. integrity
   Pronunciation: in-'te-gr&-tE
   Function: noun
   1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY
   2 : an unimpaired condition : SOUNDNESS
   3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided : COMPLETENESS
   synonym see HONESTY

6. Trivial Pursuit's Top 10 Trivial Moments

1. Cruisin' Out of Control - How did Tom Cruise turn falling into love into a can't-look-away train wreck?

5. Wired's 10 Best Tech Moments

1. NASA rovers survive a full Martian year

4. National Geographic's Top 10 News Photos 

1. Live Giant Squid Photographed - A First

3. Right Wing News' Top 10 Worst Quotes From The Democratic Underground

1. S1 on a helicopter with 9 American Blackwater employees in it being shot down in Iraq: Good. F*ck em. Live by the sword, go down in a Russian helo by the missile. Perhaps the rest of Blackwater will get slaughtered too, good riddance to bad sh*t.

2. 2Spare's Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff You Didn't Know

1. Picking one's nose and eating it might be healthy.

1. Captain Ed's 10 Worst Americans (prepared in response to All Things Beautiful's challenge):

1. John Edgar Hoover