Kesher Talk

The pivot of the secular global year. I'm too lazy to come up with predictions and lists of my own, but here's what some other folks think was important from last year, and what is going to happen this year:

10 best QTVR panoramic photos of 2003.
Top 10 astronomy images of 2003.
Jewish Week music critic George Robinson's 10 best Jewish recordings of 2003, including music from Ugandan Jews, the historic Spanish and Portugese Synagogue of New York, the Arab-Andalusian orchestra of Fez, a black/Jewish jazz fusion version of classic High Holiday cantorial arrangements, and maftirim, mystical Jewish-Sufi devotional music.
The annual honours list from 10 Downing Street.
Most over- and under-rated ideas of 2003.
Top 10 stupidities of last year's NY Times.
Honest Reporting's annual awards for dishonest reporting on Israel. (Reuter's won, natch.)
Michelle Malkin's Whiners of the year.
Speaking of which, AlterNet thinks it was a bad year:

2003 was a demoralizing year for those of us working for peace and justice. With George Bush in the White House, Arnold Schwarzenegger in the California State House, and Paul Bremer ruling Iraq, it was a chore just to get out of bed each morning.

Back to reality: Damian Penny has picked out a Despicable Dozen of 2003.
You can help Charles pick out a 2003 Idiotarian of the Year. (Hint: George Soros' political views and multi-billion dollar clout need more publicity.)
The The 10 worst dictators of the 20th century.
On a lighter note, 2003 Blogs of Distinction from Fraterslibertas.
Dan Drezner at Sullivan has some New year's resolutions, and a look backward and forward at the US economy.
Austin Bay on security challenges of 2004.
Tim Blair is soliciting predictions for 2004, and you can read a kajillion of them in his comments.
Mark Steyn's already making his.
More predictions from Matthew Stinson.
More predictions from Tacitus and his active, intelligent, knowledgeable, politically diverse commenters.
50 predictions from Vodkapundit.
Michelle predicts what some bloggers are going to do in 2004, and looks back at a year of The Command Post.
Venomous Kate is true to form: The Top 5 Things I'd Change About The People I Can't Stand and The Top 5 Mixed Drinks That Made Me Barf This Year.
Gut Rumbles predicts, and takes stock of his blog's performance in the past year.
A blogger's New Year's resolutions about blogging. I really relate to this one:

4. I resolve to hold myself to the One Link Limit. No more reading something on Buzzmachine and then clicking on the link to LT Smash, and then clicking through to Stratfor, and then drilling down and down and down until I’m reading a fascinating analysis of the growing political unrest in Uzbekistan and its implications for US policy and the sun is coming up and I haven’t been to bed yet and I will as soon as I’ve clicked on this one last link . . . Enough! One link. That’s it.

And finally, a humungous List of Lists.

posted by Judith @ 1/01/2004 07:08:00 PM