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- We've got plenty more year-end lists for you today: Cinematical's 25 lamest things in movies in 2008, the top TV stories of 2008 (via), the seven greatest SNL Christmas sketches (via), JibJab's 2008 year in review, the seven best ensemble casts of 2008, 6 new web technologies of 2008 you need to use now, the top 10 green-tech breakthroughs of 2008, and the year's biggest box office hits.
- Fans' worst nightmares look likely to come true: 20th Century Fox has said it will seek an order delaying the release of Watchmen.
- Most businesses are reporting a terrible holiday season, and are talking about declaring bankruptcy, but Amazon is all smiles. It calls this holiday season its "best ever," saying it saw a 17 percent increase in orders on its busiest day.
- The Christmas miracle we wished for seems to have come true! The Spirit made a pathetic $6 million on its opening weekend, coming in seventh place in the box office.
- D'oh. Looks like Oprah endorsed another phony memoir.
- Enjoy the trailer for Lesbian Vampire Killers.
- Wired's Gadget Lab picks 12 good gadgets for hard times.
- Download Squad found a couple of interesting pieces of software: a Greasemonkey script that lets YouTube videos buffer, and a program that shows you what's in a torrent before you download.
- Yesterday, XPN was celebrating that incredible instrument, the cowbell, with a video of how to play the cowbell, and a link to a website that lets you add more cowbell to any song.
- Show your love of Macs through jewelry.
- New behind-the-scenes Coraline featurettes.
- Maybe your Christmas wasn't perfect, but surely it wasn't this bad.
- Neil Gaiman said in a recent interview: "We're getting closer and closer to the point where you could make a Sandman movie." His point was that superhero movies can be made now and be believable and effective thanks to advances in technology.
- Super Punch shows off some pretty cool custom toys.
- Scientists are planning to create a small artificial sun in an attempt to solve the world's energy problems. That sounds really amazing... but it also sounds distressingly similar to the plot of an apocalyptic disaster film... (Via)
- How to turn a Fisher Price Chatter Telephone into a real telephone. (Via)
- Something Awful parodies those "30 ways to die by electrocution" images that were circulating recently. (Via)
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