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Behold. The first The __earthinc’s yearly award. Muahahaha.
Below are the things that, in my opinion, deserve to be mentioned before the year sets in the horizon.

The news of the year – United Nations’ weapon inspection on Iraq
Space news of the year – Ariane 5 explosion
Environmental news of the year – The sunken Prestige off Spain
Sport news of the year – US reached the World Cup 2002’s quarterfinal in Korea/Japan
Crap of the year – Football (reads soccer) shootouts cause heart attacks

Person of the year – George Bush
Joker of the year – George Bush
Loser of the year – The Democrats
Beauty of the year – Jennifer Aniston
Bitch of the year – Christina Aguilera
Fucker of the year – Ann Arbor Police
Critic of the year – Bal (give him a visit at bal.mit.edu)

News feeder of the year - Reuters

Computer of the year – None (Self-assembled is the best)
Quasi-computer of the year – Anything related to Apple Computers
Motherboard of the year – ASUS P4G8X
Processor of the year – AMD Athlon
Video card of the year – ATi’s Radeon 9500 Pro
Sound card of the year – Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
Speaker of the year – Creative Inspire 6.1
Mp3 player of the year (hardware) – NOMAD Jukebox Zen
OS of the year – MS Window XP
Programming language of the year – C++
Web browser of the year – IE 6
Firewall of the year – ZoneAlarm 3.0
Tracker of the year - VisualCare
AV of the year – Norton Anti-Virus 2002
Digicam of the year – Fuji FinePix 2650
Image editor of the year – Adobe Photoshop 7.0
HTML editor of the year – MS Notepad 5.1
Search engine of the year – Google
Portal of the year – Yahoo!
Messenger of the year – MSN Messenger 4.6
Media player of the year - RealOne
Mp3 player of the year (software) – Winamp 3
Game of the year – Star Wars’ Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Gamer of the year – Mohd Saiful Mohd Bohari (You wouldn’t believe how many ORIGINAL games he bought)
Weblog publisher of the year – Blogger.com
Weblog of the year – Samizdata.net

Fast food of the year – Subway
Restaurant of the year – Penang in Chicago
Coffee shop of the year – Starbuck
Pop of the year – Mountain Dew
Dining Hall of the year – South Quad’s

University of the year – University of Michigan
Campus of the year – Central Campus
Zoo of the year (Special Award) – University of Michigan’s North Campus
Reshall of the year – West Quad
Organization of the year – Solar Car Team
Workspace of the year – SCT’s workshop in Ypsilanti
Professor of the year – Myron Campbell
GSI/TA of the year – David Winn
Course of the year – EECS 280
Building of the year – Umich’s EECS Building
Hangout place of the year – Underground, Michigan League
Day of the year – Tuesday (It was EECS 280’s deadline)
Swear word of the year – Mother Fucker

Planet of the year - Saturn
City of the year – Chicago, Illinois
Mall of the year – Somerset in Troy, Michigan
Freeway of the year – I-90, USA
Street of the year – S. University St. in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Car of the year – Toyota Celica

Book of the year – The Turk by Tom Standage
Magazine of the year – Computer Shopper
Text book of the year – Savitch’s Absolute C++

Football team of the year – AC Milan
Sport site of the year – uefa.com
NCAAF team of the year - Iowa

Movie of the year – Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
Disappointment of the year – Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Flop of the year – Jason X
Shit of the year – Jason X
Short Film of the year – BMWFilms.com’s The Hire
Cartoon of the year – South Park
Sitcom of the year – Friends
Group of the year - Tool
Song of the year – Broken by 12 Stones

Well, hope that wrap the year. Next year, I'll take vote for some entries but this year, to hell with democracy I say.