You know what the Internet could use right now? Another Top 10 of 2008 list of course! Man, I can’t believe those things ever went out of fashion…

So here to help you parse your year more efficiently is Chewing Pixels’ Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2008.

Like, none more droll.

1. Top 10 Most Overrated Videogames of 2008.

Tom Chick upset the Internet so much with this one that he felt the need to write an open letter of apology elaborating on the reasons for his choices and assuring everyone he wasn’t just trolling for hits. The awesome power of the list!

1. Grand Theft Auto IV
2. Little Big Planet
3. Braid
4. Metal Gear Solid 4
5. Mass Effect
6. Wii Fit
7. Spore
8. Burnout: Paradise
9. Left 4 Dead
10. Civilization IV: Colonization

2. Top 10 Japanese Phrases of 2008

Learning up-to-the-minute Japanese colloquialisms is the only way we’re going to be street enough to be accepted into Jet Set Radio’s gang. Watch and learn, reader-kun.

1. “gu~!” (”Good!”)
2. Arafo (”Around forty”)
3. Ueno’s 413 pitches
4. Izakaya taxi – (”Pub Taxi”)
5. Nabakari Kanrishoku (”Manager in name only”)
6. Kasumigaseki Maizōkin (”Kasumigaseki’s Buried treasure)
7. Kanikōsen (The Crab Cannery Ship – a 1929 novel that shot to unexpected fame this year)
8. Gerira Gōu (”Guerrilla rainstorm” – unpredictable weather)
9. Kōki Kōreisha (”Late-stage elderly” – Anyone aged 75 or older, which is now 10% of all Japan)
10. Anata to wa Chigau n Desu (“I’m different from you”)

3. Top 10 search terms on UK Google of 2008

I do wonder if the good folks at google edited out some of the more saucy search terms in order to show humanity in a more generous light – I bet something like ‘bukkake chicken’ is the real number one. Either way, this list is basically a a rundown of my daily routine.

1. Facebook
2. BBC
3. YouTube
4. eBay
5. Games
6. News
7. Hotmail
8. Bebo
9. Yahoo
10. Jobs

4. Top 10 Obscure Google Hacks

Not so much hacks as just really neat tools for making your life more convenient. Genuinely useful list.

1. Make Google recognize faces
2. ID people, objects, and foreign language words and phrases with Google Image Search
3. Find music and comic books free to download
4. Find related terms and documents
5. Remove affiliate links from product searches
6. Use Google as a free proxy
7. Compare items with “better than” and find similar items with “reminds me of”
8. Convert currency, metrics, bytes, and more
9. Track flight status
10. Get the local time anywhere

5. Top 10 Passwords of 2008

A.k.a How to steal your neighbour’s Wi-Fi.

I like number ten the best: simple, memorable, elegant and utterly ineffective.

1. (username)
2. (username)123
3. 123456
4. password
5. 1234
6. 12345
7. passwd
8. 123
9. test
10. 1

6. Top 10 Intranet Sites.

Because there is literally nothing more exciting than an awesome cocking intranet site.

1. Bank of America, US
2. Bankinter S.A., Spain
3. Barnes & Noble, US
4. British Airways, UK
5. Campbell Soup Company, US
6. Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, US
7. IKEA North America Service, LLC, US
8. Ministry of Transport, New Zealand
9. New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Australia
10. SAP AG, Germany

7. Top 10 Most Listened to Songs on Last.fm of 2008

These are the songs that people actually listened to in 2008, rather than the ones they pretended to have listened to after Pitchfork released their How-To-Look-Achingly-Scene Songs of the Year list.

This is pretty much the most boring list of anything ever made ever and shows why people are idiots and democracy is deeply, deeply flawed.

1. Viva La Vida by Coldplay
2. Violet Hill by Coldplay
3. Time to Pretend by MGMT
4. Electric Feel by MGMT
5. Life in technicolor by Coldplay
6. Cemeteries of London by Coldplay
7. I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry
8. 42 by Coldplay
9. Strawberry Swing by Coldplay
10. Kids by MGMT

8. Top 10 Pirated games of 2008

Admittedly this is a list of pirated PC games, so it’s not like anyone would have bought them if they hadn’t stolen them first, but still: cripes! (Figures are based on the number of bit torrent connection to each file on Torrent Freak.)

Thinking about it, there’s a chance every one of the downloaders was just Cory Doctorow making a point.

1. Spore – 1,700,000
2. The Sims 2 – 1,150,000)
3. Assassins Creed – 1,070,000
4. Crysis – 940,000
5. Command & Conquer 3 – 860,000
6. Call of Duty 4 – 830,000
7. GTA San Andreas – 740,000
8. Fallout 3 – 645,000
9. Far Cry 2 – 585,000
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 – 470,000

9. The Top 10 most Popular Top 10 lists on Time Magazine’s Top 10 of Everything Feature Set of 2008

Time Magazine’s attempt to categorize and rank everything that existed, was thought or happened over the past 12 months extends even to their own set of Top 10 lists. It’s like a giant ouroboros wank that we’re all encouraged to comment on. My face hurts :(

1. Top 10 Oddball News Stories
2. Top 10 Viral Videos
3. Top 10 Scientific Discoveries
4. Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans
5. Top 10 Underreported Stories
6. Top 10 Movies
7. Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs
8. Top 10 Songs
9. Top 10 Gadgets
10. Top 10 Crime Stories

10. Top 10 Top 10 Lists of 2008

Take that Time Magazine. Kapow!