Best of 2008

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Films

• Juno (technically it supposedly came out late 2007)
• Live Free or Die Hard
• Tropic Thunder

Books

• The Creative Habit

Theater / Other

• Man we suck.

Music

iTunes links for those albums available as iTunes Plus.

Last.fm's best of 2008

Albums

Electronic

• MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
• Santogold -Santogold

Pop

• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Beck - Modern Guilt
• Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Glistening Pleasure
• Air France - No Way Down
• Lykke Li - Youth Novels

Indie

• Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
• Dodos - Visiter
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• James Yuill - Turning Down Water For Air
• Okkervil River - The Stand Ins and The Stage Names

Mixes

• Ed Banger Rec Vol. 3
• DJ /rupture - Uproot

Videos

• MGMT - Electric Feel
• MGMT - A Time to Pretend
• MGMT - Kids (fan version)
• Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
• Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
• Thunderheist - Jerk It
• Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
• Weezer - Pork and Beans

Technology

Games

• Little Big Planet (PS3)
• Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episodes 1 (May) and 2 (October)
• Burnout Paradise (PS3)
• Fantastic Contraption (Flash)

Hardware

• iPhone 3G
• Squeezebox Duet

Software

• Aperture 2.0
• Dropbox
• Pixelmator
• Versions

Internet Memes

• dSLRs with video mode face-off
• full-frame prosumer dSLR face-off
• Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy
• housingpanic
• Palin Parody - Who's Nailin' Paylin
• Weezer - Pork and Beans Video
• hot chicks with douchebags (turned into a book, resulting in one douchebag suing the author)
• Feist performing a version of 1234 on Sesame Street

Food & Drink

Lunch Spots

• Save On Meats
• Kam Gok Yuen
• The Boss
• So.cial
• Bale

See also

• Wired: The 10 Most Disappointing Games of 2008
• The A.V. Club: The best music of 2008
• Google's top 2008 searches
• Best of 2007
• Best of 2006
• Best of 2005
• Best of 2004