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Update on __earthinc’s Best of 2003 Awards nominations. Click here for Round One.

The news of the year – The Gulf War II and its related news, Malaysia-Singapore relation, N. Korea Nuclear row, SARS outbreak, Indonesia crackdown on Aceh Rebel, Israel-Palestine Peace Road Map
Space news of the year – The lost of SS Columbia, Japan's First Spy Satellites, Galileo System, Mars Express Launch
Environmental news of the year – ANWR survives Bush’s drilling plan, Water Conference in Japan, Australia's Great Barrier Reef Plan, Damming of the Yangtze River
Sport news of the year – Ajax into UEFA CL Quarterfinals, All-Italian European Cup Final, First women in USPGA Men's Tour, Mighty Ducks for Stanley Cup
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, Aceh Rebel
Beauty of the year – Alexis Bledel, Christina Aguilera
Bitch of the year – MSNBC, NY Times
Fucker of the year – David Liu(he nominated himself)
Critique of the year – [Still searching]

News feeder of the year – [Omitted]

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 XP, Intel Pentium, Intel Centrino
Video card of the year – GeForce 4 FX 5900, ATi Radeon 9700 Pro, ATi Radeon 5000 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, Creative's NOMAD
OS of the year – MS Window XP, OS X
Programming language of the year – [Award suspended]
Web browser of the year – IE, Netscape, Opera
Firewall of the year – ZoneAlarm
Tracker of the year – VisualCare, nMap, LANGuard
AV of the year – McAfee VirusScan
Digicam of the year – Canon
Image editor of the year - Adobe Photoshop
HTML editor of the year – Notepad, FrontPage,
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, Half-Life 2, Thief 3, Soldier of Fortune 2: Gold Edition, Splinter Cell, Championship Manager 4
Gamer of the year – Kelvin, Epol, Hong, Jebai, Hafiz Hasan
Weblog publisher of the year – Blogger, Movable Type
Weblog of the year – Games Design Art Culture, n3a

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, West Quad's, Bursley's

University of the year – University of Michigan, Purdue University

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, South Quad, Baits I
Organization of the year – Solar Car Team
Workspace of the year – [Award suspended]
Professor of the year – George Johnson
GSI/TA of the year – -----------------
Course of the year – ECON 102, ECON 401
Building of the year – Michigan Union, SCT's workspace, Media Union, EECS Building, MLB, Lorch Hall, UgLi, Grad Library, Pierpont Commons
Hangout place of the year – S. University St.
Day of the year – Monday,Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Swear word of the year – Fuck Fuckity Fuck, sucks, screwed, dumbfuck

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, Celica

Book of the year – Animal Farm, Silent Spring, Blue Mars
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, Porto
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: Revolution, The Pianist, X2
Disappointment of the year – Daredevil, The Hulk, Matrix: Reloaded
Flop of the year – [Award suspended]
Flop of the year – [Award suspended]
Short Film of the year – Animatrix
Cartoon of the year – South Park, Simpson, Futurama
Sitcom of the year – [Searching]
Group of the year – Evanescence, Dove, Disturbed, Deftones, RHCP
Song of the year - Bring me to life(Evanescence), Sea Song(Dove), Remember(Disturbed), Somewhere I Belong(LP), Can't Stop(RHCP), All the things she said(T.A.T.U.)