Link Round-Up: Year End 2012

New Year's Eve atop One Times Square by Anthony Quintano

Internet:

• The 10 most popular Reddit posts of 2012
• The 10 Most Popular Google Doodles of 2012.
• The 54 Best Tumblrs Started In 2012.
• The Best New and Short Webcomics of 2012
• The Funniest Law Blogs of 2012.
• List Of The Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Greg Rutter does it again with his “Definitive List Of The Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet In 2012 Unless You’re A Loser His other two previous lists can be found here and here. Always an entertaining way to burn an afternoon or two. 

Media:

• Best Books of 2012
• Best Comics of 2012
• Best Video Games of 2012

Photography:

• The 40 Happiest Photos Taken This Year.  
• The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2012. 
• 60 Images From 2012 We Want Saved In A Time Machine.
• Best of 2012 - National Geographic Magazine Photos of the Year.
• Best photos of the year 2012. From Reuters.
• The Most Controversial Photos of 2012.
• World Press Photo Contest Winners.The Year in Pictures. (NY Times)
• The year in pictures. From CNN.

Science:

• 2012 in Review: 9 Important Archaeological Discoveries.
• 10 biggest health breakthroughs of 2012.
• The 8 Biggest Energy Stories of 2012.
• The 10 Biggest Space Moments of 2012.
• The 11 most fascinating scientific discoveries of 2012.
• 12 Amazing Species Discovered in 2012.
• 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012.
• Academic nominative determinism: the year’s best.
• BBC Wildlife Camera-trap Photos of the Year 2012. 
• The Best Astronomy Images of 2012, from the Bad Astronomer.
• The best space photos of 2012, according to Wired.
• Hidden Gems of 2012. 
• io9's Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2012.
• Mythical Particles and Goldilocks Planets: Top 5 Scientific Milestones of 2012
• NatGeo's Best Space Pictures of 2012: Editor's Picks.
• Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012. 
• Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2012. 
• The year in space, according to NASA and the ESA.
• Top 5 retracted science stories of 2012.
• The Top 10 Brain Science and Psychology Stories of 2012.
• Top 10 Discoveries of 2012: Nat Geo News's Most Popular.
• Top 10 science videos of 2012.
• Top Science Longreads of 2012.
• Weird Science Awards 2012 
• Wired's Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012. 

Tech:

• 2012 in video gaming.  
• The 5 most significant video game controversies in 2012. 
• Abort, Retry, Fail: Gaming’s Biggest Disappointments of 2012.
• The Best Inventions of 2012 You Haven’t Heard of Yet Part 1 and Part 2. 
• This Dumb Year: The 57 Lamest Moments in Tech 2012. 
• From Apple Maps to Epic Hacks: The Year’s Top Tech Fails.  
• From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Year in Privacy and Security. 
• The most overrated games of 2012. 
• Overhyped, Overpriced: 2012′s Insanely Expensive Gear.
• The Top 10 Tech Breakthroughs of 2012.

Videos:

• From the Hulk to Hacktivists: Wired’s Best Videos of 2012. 
• Top 12 Videos of 2012: The Year in YouTube!