Best Stuff

Wow...did we really just start a millenium this way? This was the decade of the Internet explosion and all that it entails, wars with many lands, and reality (and real competition) shows in the living rooms of all Americans. Kind of depressing when put that way. Coming up with the best stuff of the decade is tough because it's hard to think back to when I was a teenager and the time when we didn't have this stuff. I can hardly remember what that was like.

Best Stuff o' the Decade:

Podcasts - my vote for the best thing to come out of this decade, but I guess they wouldn't be as awesome without the ipod.

iPod

Blogs - obvi.

YouTube

Google!

Single camera comedies (and their stars - Fey, Carell, Braff, et al)

Honda Insight - paving the way for the Prius, which made it cool to drive hybrid

Tesla Roadster

The GPS as a personal electronic

Social networking - I could care less if Facebook and Twitter went away at the stroke of midnight, but Good Reads has changed my book reading for the better.

The rise of Whole Foods - you can have any kind of dietary restrictions under the sun and WhoFo understands

Comedic News (Onion, Daily Show, Colbert Report...)

Netflix

Obama

Point and Shoot Digital Cameras

Skype

Reviving Kafka

Texas Instruments software - changing how one can teach students mathematics and calculator functions

Non-BPA water bottles

Increased social and environmental responsibility

What I Could Do Without:

Cell phones everywhere...as if they have

Globalization - local shops closing and USPS losing ground

Twitter...why is everyone talking about this?

Photographs are hardly a physical thing anymore now