2008 - The Year in Other Crap
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Where I went
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- USA (4 times, for a total of 11 weeks)
- France (one week)
- Sydney (3 times, for a total of 6 days)
- Marongla (2 days)

Thankfully not as much travel as previous years.

Best Mobile Phone, Widescreen iPod and breakthrough internet device
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- iPhone

... because I forgot to mention it last year and it is still extremely cool.

Bestest Internet videos
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- [Jizz in my pants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4)
- [I'm Fucking Matt Damon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG3S5WzHig)
- [I'm not here to make friends](http://grorg.org/blorg/not_here_to_make_friends/)
- [Idiots skate down hill at high speed](http://www.vimeo.com/1654340) (although I'd love to see all the accidents of people trying to better it)
- [Feist on Sesame Street](http://grorg.org/blorg/feist_street/)
- The cute one with the [baby lion bought in Harrod's](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U) (you can watch the Born Free original, but this shortened version with Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" is the shiz)
- [A three year old explains Star Wars](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0)

Favourite Celebrity Babies
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- Jessica Alba's
- Nicole Kidman's (is cosmetic surgery heriditary?)
- Halle Berry's
- Naomi Watt's
- Gwen Stefani's (omg! [cutest baby ever!](http://rashmanly.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/gwen-stefanis-baby-girl-zuma/))
- Brad and Angelina's ten (or however many they had/made/stole)

Celebrities having babies was 2008's second biggest fad behind vampires.


Favourite Celebrity Couple
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- Penn and Blake, a.k.a D and S (Dan and Serena from Gossip Girl)


Books
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I didn't read much this year and only two books really stood out.

The first is "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. It's not
a spoiler to give away the premise, which is that it is about a woman
with a husband who occasionally and uncontrollably slips through time. It
might sound silly, but the idea makes for some really interesting situations:
such as the fact that they meet each other for the first time twice - once
when he is an adult and she is a child, and then later when she is an adult
(before he has travelled to meet her). Confusing, but I got totally hooked
and cried like a baby.

The other book was "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright, which was made
into the mini-series I mentioned earlier. It was amazing to learn
how much of the show was real-life events.

I also read all four of the Twilight novels. I'd say they sucked, but
that joke is too easy. The first one was a lot of fun. The latter ones
are getting extremely silly.

Lastly, I also tried to get into the Gossip Girl books thinking they
would be as awesome as the show. They are not. They are as bad as
mistaking tights for pants. Seriously, Rufus is bald and overweight in
the books!!! C'mon!! Who do you want: an ugly Rufus or the lead singer
of early 90s sensation Lincoln Hawk?


Predictions for 2009
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Will contain approximately 350 days. I aim for 5% error.