As Off Center prepares for a Top 10 extravaganza of its own (look for best- and worst-of lists compiled by Walker staff as well as a few special guests in the next two weeks), here are a few lists that caught my eye:
• Architectural Wonders of 2006 by BusinessWeek: Refreshingly, not a rundown of the usual suspects.
• 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: Top 10 Google and Google News searches. (X-rated search strands excluded, I’m guessing.)
• Best Book-Cover Designs by Book Design Review: Kinda liking the cover of Martin Amis’ Koba the Dread.
• Stephen King’s Top 10 Books: Includes Philip Roth’s amazing American Pastoral.
• Top 10 Archeological Discoveries of 2006: 5,000 year-old Bulgarian dagger! Boggy book of Psalms! A really old canoe!!
• TIME’s Best News Photos of the Year: Grim and sometimes moving, this series makes me wish for a better ‘06.
• Best (and Worst) 10 Movie Trailers of 2006 according to iFILM: But why watch the worst trailers of the year?!
• Top 10 Winter US Museum Shows by Museums New York: To throw a monkeywrench in the works, it includes winter 2007 shows, including our Kara Walker survey.
• Top 10 News Stories of 2006 You Probably Missed by Foreign Policy.
• Top 10 Christian Tourist Traps: As an afficionado of roadside attractions, outsider environments, and monstrous fibreglass fish, I object to the term “traps.”
• Top 10 YouTube Videos. Ever. According to some guy called FatAdam.
For more Top 10s check out link central: Rex Sorgatz’s Fimoculous.
Also, if you’ve found lists of substantive, interesting, overlooked year-end lists, please post them in comments.