Here’s a handful of best-of-the-year stories collected from around the blogosphere (and beyond:
Zero Anthropology (includes a top 10 of Wikileaks posts)
Andy Revkin’s list of planet-sized events (and click on the BBC, Wired, NPR and Scientific American science stories of the year links for more in this vein)
Grist’s top 10 green stories of the year,* and their A-to-Z of the 2010 urban landscape
Skeptic’s Top 10 science books of the year
Tativille‘s year in cinema (and here are Sight and Sound’s and Film Comment’s critics lists)
MUBI’s best movie posters of the year
The year in socially engaged Buddhism at The Jizo Chronicles
The year in ecomedia studies
*(Note: I forgot to include this here originally, so I’ve added it.)