Thursday, December 30, 2010

Top 10 of 2010

Since the end of the year is drawing near, people keep writing articles about the top 10 things that happened in 2010. I read one article the other day that listed the top 10 world events of 2010, such as the earthquake in Haiti and some other disasters, but the one that wasn’t on the list was the oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico. That kind of surprised me because that thing was freaking huge. I can’t seem to find the article so I can’t list the events exactly, but it included things like the death of the Polish president during a plane crash, the earthquake in Haiti, the 33 miners in Chile that were stuck and then rescued, etc. Damn, I wish I could find the article, but Google isn’t being my friend right now. Since this is a guilty pleasures blog, I thought I would list some fun top 10 things in 2010. Happy New Year!!! I will see you all next year.

Top 10 most illegally downloaded movies of 2010:
1. Avatar - 16,580,000 downloads
2. Kick-Ass - 11,400,000 downloads
3. Inception - 9,720,000 downloads
4. Shutter Island - 9,490,000 downloads
5. Iron Man 2 - 8,810,000 downloads
6. Clash of the Titans - 8,040,000 downloads
7. Green Zone - 7,730,000 downloads
8. Sherlock Holmes - 7,160,000 downloads
9. The Hurt Locker - 6,850,000 downloads
10. Salt - 6,700,000 downloads

Why would anyone want to download Salt? It wasn’t that great. I still need to see Kick-Ass. I watched the first part and it was pretty damn good. This list is kind of random.

Top 10 most stolen cars of 2010:
1. Cadillac Escalade
2. Chevrolet Silverado
3. Dodge Charger
4. Chevrolet Avalanche
5. Infiniti G47 coupe
6. GMC Sierra Crew Cab
7. Nissan Maxima
8. Hummer H2
9. GMC Yukon XL
10. Chevrolet Tahoe

Some of these are huge cars! How do you get away with taking such a large car?

Top 10 TV stories in 2010:
1. Conan O’Brien resigns
2. The Super Bowl draws record ratings
3. Capt Phil Harris from Deadliest Catch dies
4. South Parks Muhammad depiction spurs threats
5. Piers Morgan to replace Larry King on CNN
6. American Idol judges, Ellen and Simon leave
7. Modern Family wins 6 Emmy’s (best show in TV ever!)
8. CNN fires Rick Sanchez after comments on a radio station (I guess he called Jon Stewart a bigot)
9. KCET announces it’s leaving PBS
10. Bristol Palin’s run on Dancing With the Stars

Top 10 Buzzwords: (this list is random and cracks me up)
1. Vuvuzela
2. Top Kill/Junk Shot/Static Kill/Top Hat
3. Bedbugs
4. Eyjafjallajokull
5. Austerity
6. Anchor Babies
7. Mama Grizzlies
8. Release the Kraken!
9. Double-dip
10. Bunga bunga

Top 10 Campaign Ads:
1. Jerry Brown, "Echo"
2. Joe Sestak, "The Switch"
3. Ron Johnson, "57"
4. Michael Bennet, "Wake Up"
5. Lisa Murkowski, "Ted Stevens"
6. John McCain, "J.D. Huckster"
7. Joe Manchin, "Dead Aim"
8. Barbara Boxer, "Outsourcing"
9. Linda McMahon, "What Else?"
10. Rick Snyder, "One Tough Nerd"

Top 10 Comebacks:
1. Conan O'Brien
2. General Motors
3. Eliot Spitzer
4. Lisa Murkowski
5. Betty White
6. Viktor Yanukovych
7. Paul Reubens
8. Kanye West
9. Michael Vick
10. Jerry Brown

Top 10 Fiction Books:
1. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
3. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
5. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
6. Wilson by Daniel Clowes
7. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
8. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
9. The Passage by Justin Cronin
10. Faithful Place by Tana French

Top 10 Gadgets:
1. iPad
2. Samsung Galaxy S
3. 11-In. MacBook Air
4. Google TV Via Logitech Revue
5. Nexus One
6. iPhone 4
7. Apple TV
8. Toshiba Libretto Dual-Screen Laptop
9. Kinect
10. Nook Color

Top 10 iPhone Apps:
1. Netflix
2. Groupon
3. iMovie
4. Springpad (I never heard of this until now and it seems pretty damn cool)
5. Twitter
6. Dragon Dictation (I kind of want this one too)
7. Petfinder
8. Hulu Plus
9. iBooks
10. Nike + GPS

Top 10 Overreported Stories:
1. Being Sarah Palin
2. Chelsea Clinton's Wedding
3. Bewitched by Christine O'Donnell
4. The Mortalizing of Barack Obama
5. Gordon Brown's 'Bigotgate'
6. Giving Terry Jones a Platform
7. LeBron James' 'Decision'
8. Bieber Fever
9. Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite
10. Kanye's Beautiful, Dark Twittered Fantasy

Well, there you have it. Of course there are more lists like this, but I felt these fit the bill. Again, have an awesome and safe holiday!

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