This has been QUITE a year and we’re taking this week to reflect and look back (while we look forward). We start with this image of Nik Wallenda walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls from The Big Picture’s The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012; we often feel like that, in our own small way.
We love Google’s Year in Review 2012 Zeitgeist video (and bless them for including Pussy Riot). (Video link here.)
And have been poking around Manhattan User’s Guide’s unbelievable List of Lists, which features 45 or so (we lost count) lists. Our favorites:
Top 10 Discoveries of 2012
National Geographic
2012’s Best Viral Video
New York Magazine
The Top Global Stories of 2012
The Atlantic
The 10 Weirdest New Species of 2012
The Week
The 7 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2012
Popular Science
20 Overlooked Books from 2012
Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2012
The New York Times
Top 100 Movies of 2012
Rotten Tomatoes
The Best Small Ideas of 2012
Foreign Policy
50 Favorite Albums Of 2012
NPR Music
The Most Underrated Albums of 2012
Album of the Year
The 10 Best Films of 2012
The Guardian