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best of 2004

It’s time again for those roundups of events and “bests” of the the past year…

Arts & Culture

• New York Times: “Culture: Best of 2004”
• Salon.com: “When Comedy Drew Blood”

Movies

• New York Times: “The Best Movies of 2004”
• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: “The Best Movies of 2004”
• Salon.com: “The 10 Best Movies of 2004” | “Can the Movies Rescue America?”
• Washington Post: “Look Back in Anger” | “Bully Pulpit Films: A Divisive Trend, No Doubt”

(My “best movies”: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Incredibles.)

Music

• New York Times: “The Best Pop Albums of 2004”
• Rolling Stone: “Records of the Year”
• Spin: “40 Best Albums of the Year”

News

• Dave Barry, Miami Herald: “No Thanks for the Memories”
• MSNBC.com: “The Year in Review: 2004”
• New York Magazine: “It Happened This Year”
• Yahoo! News: “2004 in Review”

Photography

• The Arizona Republic: “Photos of the Year”
• Corbis: News (There’s no “Best of 2004” yet, but the photos archived here are stunning.)
• Getty Images: “News Pictures of the Year” | “Sports Pictures of the Year” | “Entertainment Pictures of the Year”
• MSNBC.com: “The Year in Pictures”
• National Geographic Magazine: “Pictures of the Year 2004”
• New York Times: “The Year in Pictures”
• Reuters: “Pictures of the Year 2004"
• Washington Post: “Best of the Post 2004”

Search

• Google: “2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist” | “2004 Interactive Zeitgeist”
• Merriam Webster: “Words of the Year 2004”
• Yahoo!: “Top Yahoo! Searches 2004”

Technology

• Salon: “When Technology Became Cool Again”
• Cynthia Webb, washingtonpost.com: “The Year in Technology”

TV

• New York Times: “The Year of the Parasitic Posse”
• New York Times: “TV’s Best Live Moments

(My “best TV”: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Venture Brothers and Scrubs.)