Best of 2008
From Antiflux Wiki
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Films
- Juno (technically it supposedly came out late 2007)
- Live Free or Die Hard
- Tropic Thunder
Books
- The Creative Habit (2003)
- Joel on Software (2004)
Theater / Other
- Man we suck.
Music
iTunes links for those albums available as iTunes Plus.
Albums
Electronic
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
- Utah Saints - Something Good '08
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
Software
- Aperture 2.0
- Dropbox Version tracking and cloud data for dummies.
- Pixelmator
- Versions
- drop.io Simple private file sharing. Better than emailing attachments.
Internet Memes
- dSLRs with video mode face-off
- full-frame prosumer dSLR face-off
- Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy
- 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
- LOL DOUBLE DROPS!!!
Light reading
- housingpanic
- condohype
- John Mauldin's Outside the Box
- Bikesnob NYC
- Tumblr - You can aggregate how you like, but this is a great place to find people collecting photos, design, & other. I only wish I could get an rss of my dashboard instead of aggregating externally. It is also the easiest blog platform I've found so far. Not a full blog, but not quite as concise as twitter, either.
Food & Drink
Lunch Spots
- Save On Meats
- Kam Gok Yuen
- The Boss
- So.cial
- Bale
- Dae-Ji (aka The Pork Place)
