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Best of 2007

AKA, "A Buttload of Hyperlinks." Presented in no particular order.

Best video game: Okami, PS2
Runner up, even though I’ve only played it for about an hour: Bioshock, Xbox 360
Best book (fiction): For Whom the Bell Tolls
Runner ups: Independence Day, Siddhartha, The Plague, A Deepness in the Sky
Best book (nonfiction): Wild Swans
Runner ups: Infidel, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Clock of the Long Now
Best graphic novel: Watchmen
Runner ups: Persepolis, Pyongyang, The Complete History of the Modern World Part 1
Best baseball book: Clemente
Runner up: The Cheater’s Guide to Baseball
Best movie: Fitzcarraldo
Runners up: Waitress, Ratataoullie, Perseopolis
Best TV show: 30 Rock
Runners up: House, The Office
Best classic TV miniseries: Cosmos
TV show or movie I’d most like to see in HD: Planet Earth
Runner up: Metropolis
Best baseball memory: This one, obviously
Best minor league baseball cap: Montgomery Biscuits

(Yes, that's a real mascot.)
Best baseball-related website: McCovey Chronicles
Best FORA.tv FORAcast:



Best new favorite album: Goldfrapp, Black Cherry
Best new favorite band: Gnarls Barkley
Best new favorite album by an old favorite band: Cornelius, Sensuous
Best website: Netvibes
Runners up: Tumblr, Facebook, Pandora
Most overrated website: Second Life
Best print magazine: Washington Monthly
Best online magazine: Slate
Best bay area hike with dogs: Phoenix Lake Trail, Mt. Tamalpais Watershed, Marin County, CA
Worst natural disaster: SoCal Wildfires
Best short-film compilation DVD series: Wolphin
Best new favorite nonprofit organization: The Long Now Foundation
Best new hobby: Skiing
Best board game: Polarity
Best major life change: getting engaged
Best photo:

Hope everybody had a great year.

Labels: baseball, etc., FORA.tv, movies, music, news, photoblogging

posted by Nick Ryan @ 7:10 PM