B-List

1. The year that was...

2009, according to Wikipedia:
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009>
Last year was both the International Year of Astronomy and the International
Year of Natural Fibres.

A selection of 2009 retrospectives:
* "Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2009"
  <http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/15/top-ten-
     astronomy-pictures-of-2009>
* "2009 review: Favourite picture galleries"
  <http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18319>
* "The 15 Weirdest Science Stories of 2009"
  <http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/08/the-15-weirdest-
     science-stories-of-2009/>
* "Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009"
  <http://www.bspcn.com/2009/12/13/most-popular-diy-projects-of-2009/>
* "2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist: Australia"
  <http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/press/zeitgeist2009/regional.html#
     australia>
* "Albums of the Year" - according to various sites
  <http://aoty.hubmed.org/>

2. The decade that was...

The Twenty-Hundreds, or should that be the the Naughts, ended too.  Of
course, there's the usual argument about when the first decade of the
21st Century actually starts and ends.  I'll ignore that issue for now,
since the problem of naming of the years from 2000 to 2009 is more
interesting:
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_%28decade%29#Names_of_the_decade>
Maybe we should call them the "Whateverz"? ;)

Reviews of the Aughts/Naughts/Twenty-Hundreds/Whateverz:
* Wikipedia
  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_%28decade%29>
* "The Noughtie List: the 2000s in Review"
  <http://kottke.org/plus/noughtie-list/>
* "Apple nabs four of Engadget's 10 gadgets of the decade" (can't resist :)
  <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/30/apple-nabs-four-of-engadgets-10-gadgets-
     of-the-decade/>
* "This Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech, 2000-2009"
  <http://technologizer.com/2009/12/20/dumb-moments/>