2006 Lists (Already), Cool Energy, and Sir Tom Jones

Those year-end lists, like the BlogPulse 2005 Year in Review, usually appear at, well, the end of the year. But 2006 is already sprouting its first crop of lists, including a few among today's top blog posts, such as Google Blogoscoped's 10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006 (No. 4), Quick Online Tips' 50 Extensions for Firefox use in 2006 (No. 5) and at the RSS Blog, Randy Charles Martin's Web 2.0 predictions for 2006 (No. 37).

But wait! That's not all! Among the day's top links are the BBC's "100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year" (No. 8) and Lake Superior State University's List of 2006 Banned Words (No. 24, and you've been warned. You can also submit your own for 2007). The Washington Post offers what's out/in for 2006 (today's No. 27 top news story).

Intelligent...energy?
Today's No. 20 top link from Quantum Biocommunication Technology blog, outlines what may be 2006's version of intelligent design -- a cool form of energy, part of what scientists are calling the supernatural universe (and comparing it to the "force" in Star Wars). They write: "The human mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment, but a packet of pulsating energy constantly interacting with this vast energy sea."

Here's what's new, Pussycat
Not sure whether his skin-tight pants follow him, but singer Tom Jones (today's 38th burstiest person) is now Sir Tom, now that he's been knighted. "It isn't a sign of the end of the world, but it should be..." observes blogger Mark Daniels

International rumors
And can't help but notice today's international speculation, from Der Spiegel and the Jerusalem Post.. Does the U.S. have sights on an attack on Iran?

BlogPulse Spotlight
The Spotlight blog kicks off 2006 with a look at the new Coldplay CD and its embedded DRM "protection," which makes it unplayable to some of its owners.