I think this post ought to be an annual thing around here. Since I’m addicted to the “interwebs,” I’ve seen more than my fair share of biased, whine-inducing, velveeta-laden so-called “Best-of” lists that I need to control myself on the number of adjectives I use to describe them. Here are a sampling of some of the worst lists I’ve seen out there so far. Oh yeah, and happy new year and all. (^_^)

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Tags: 2008, 2009, Best Of, New Year, The Worst Of, Top Lists

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People have always been a bit too much when it comes to their clocks and time-keeping. Fall back this, Spring ahead that, Leap every four years; and now you get to worry about your second-hand behind one tick ahead. I can see Ed Wynn now in the Twilight Zone’s “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” giggling at jokes while bouncing off the ceiling with Dick Van Dyke and the Mad Hatter from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and thinking to himself, “Well shit-in-a-can.”

Apparently the brains behind the International Earth Rotation and Reference System Service (IERS) have always been observing the Earth’s rotation unbeknownst to us “outsiders.” Every year the IERS judges if a leap second needs to be inserted into account with a “Bulletin C” message which reports whether or not to add a leap second in the end of June or December.

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Tags: 2009, Party, Time

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