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2009's Coolest Pop Culture

Wired picks the year's best

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 28, 2009 8:03 AM CST
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(Newser) – This has been a vintage year for pop culture, say Wired writers listing their year's best in fields from film to video games to microsculpture.

  • Stephen Colbert's "hyper-real genius" made the year for Scott Thill, who believes "Earth’s most relevant living cultural critic" is long overdue for an Emmy for The Colbert Report.

  • "Instant sci-fi classic" Moon was the year's best film, according to Lewis Wallace. Indie filmmaker Duncan Jones proved that "brainy ideas are more important than big budgets when it comes to sci-fi flicks," he writes.
  • "Gaming's greatest iconoclasts" made it a good year for Gus Mastrapa. Releases like Tim Schaefer's Brutal Legend and Keita Takahashi's Noby Noby Boy may have had their flaws, he writes, "but these videogame visions were unique, undiluted, and mandatory."
Click the link at right for the full list.

Comedy Central Host Stephen Colbert takes a skeleton ride while filming a segment at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York last week.
Comedy Central Host Stephen Colbert takes a skeleton ride while filming a segment at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York last week.   (Getty Images)
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super_soft_wizard
Nov 29, 2009 2:17 AM CST
@ifbit--seriously people actually use the internet without an ad filter? I nearly have a seizure when i have to use some neandrethal's laptop for a few minutes and visit the webs in their full flash advertisement glory.
super_soft_wizard
Nov 29, 2009 2:16 AM CST
But see: Andy Warhol; Lady Gaga; Girl Talk; et al.
ifbit
Nov 28, 2009 10:52 AM CST
@deezy: Firefox + Adblock Plus = I don't know what you're talking about.

 
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