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After three months into 2003, here are the nominees for __earthinc’s Best of 2003 Awards. Suggestion must reach __earth before year 2003 ends. Any suggestion must be sent to hafiz_sw[AT]hotmail[DOT]com or hafiz_sw[AT]yahoo[DOT]com. A limited poll will be held some time in October till November 2003. =)

The news of the year – The Gulf War II and its related news, Malaysia-Singapore relation, N. Korea Nuclear row
Space news of the year – The lost of SS Columbia, Japan's First Spy Satellites
Environmental news of the year – ANWR survives Bush’s drilling plan, Water Conference in Japan
Sport news of the year – Ajax into UEFA CL Quarterfinals
Crap of the year – Freedom fries

Person of the year – George Bush, Jacque Chirac
Joker of the year – George Bush
Loser of the year – Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, France
Beauty of the year – Some girl in the bus
Bitch of the year – MSNBC
Fucker of the year – [Award suspended due to its ambiguousness nature]
Critique of the year – [Still searching]

News feeder of the year – Reuters, AP

Computer of the year – [Award suspended]
Quasi-computer of the year – [Award suspended]
Motherboard of the year – [Still searching]
Processor of the year – AMD Athlon, Intel Pentium
Video card of the year – GeForce 4 FX, ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
Sound card of the year – Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platinum
Speaker of the year – Creative Inspire 6.1 [Still]
Mp3 player of the year (hardware) – Apple’s IPod
OS of the year – MS Window XP
Programming language of the year – [Award suspended]
Web browser of the year – IE, Netscape
Firewall of the year – ZoneAlarm
Tracker of the year – VisualCare
AV of the year – McAfee VirusScan
Digicam of the year – Canon
Image editor of the year - Adobe Photoshop
HTML editor of the year – Notepad
Search engine of the year – Google
Portal of the year – Yahoo!
Messenger of the year – Trillian
Media player of the year – RealOne, Quicktime
Mp3 player of the year (software) – Winamp
Game of the year – Neverwinter Nights, Eve: The Second Genesis, C&C: Generals, Freelancer, Earth & Beyond, Impossible Creatures
Gamer of the year – Kelvin, Epol, Hong, Jebai, Hafiz Hasan
Weblog publisher of the year – Blogger, Movable Type
Weblog of the year – [Still searching]

Fast food of the year- McDonald’s, Subway
Restaurant of the year – [Still searching]
Coffee shop of the year – Starbuck
Pop of the year – Mountain Dew
Dining Hall of the year – South Quad’s, Bursley's

University of the year – University of Michigan

Campus of the year (for Michigan) – 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 – [Award suspended]
Professor of the year – George Johnson
GSI/TA of the year – Katherine Guthrie, Erik Ohlander
Course of the year – ECON 102
Building of the year – Michigan Union, SCT's workspace, Media Union, EECS Building, MLB
Hangout place of the year – S. University St.
Day of the year – Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Swear word of the year – Fuck Fuckity Fuck, sucks, screw you( I don't think this is a swear word)

Planet of the year – [Searching]
City of the year – [Searching]
Mall of the year – Briarwoods Mall at Ypsilanti-MI, 12 Oaks at Novi-MI
Freeway of the year – I-90, USA
Street of the year – E. Liberty St., S. U. St., Main St.

Car of the year – Nissan Z, SpectruM

Book of the year – [Searching]
Magazine of the year – PC Magazine
Text book of the year – [Screw this]

Football team of the year – AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Arsenal, Man Utd (Ack!), Arsenal, Newcastle, Celtics, Ajax ,Real Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona
National team of the Year – Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil(Ack!), England
Sport site of the year – uefa.com, soccernet.com
NCAAF team of the year – [Waiting for the season to start]

Movie of the year – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Matrix: Reloaded, Matrix: Revolution, The Pianist
Disappointment of the year – Daredevil, The Hulk
Flop of the year – [Award suspended]
Flop of the year – [ Award suspended]
Short Film of the year – [Searching]
Cartoon of the year – South Park, Simpson
Sitcom of the year – [Searching]
Group of the year – Evanescence, Dove, Disturbed
Song of the year - Bring me to life(Evanescence), Sea Song(Dove), Remember(Disturbed), Somewhere I Belong(LP)