Today’s ‘List Friday’. And with only 20 days to go in 2009, things are hotting up in listland, because every Tom, Dick and Harry’s putting out a list of the best (or worst) something or other of 2009. A particularly fertile source of 2009 lists is National Geographic. I used to love National Geographic. Mainly its superb photographs of exotic subjects. The advertisers obviously knew people loved the photographs, because most advertisements were for high-end cameras. And still may be for all I know, because I haven’t opened a NG mag for years. But its lists are fascinating. At least the current batch is. I think they were compiled on a ‘most viewed’ basis, but I don’t know if this was paper version [1], online [2] or both. Included are: the top 10 discoveries for 2009 in science [3], new species [4], archaeology [5] and space [6]. Still in space, of 10 most viewed National Geographic photo galleries in 2009 [7], number one is a 1969 photograph (shown above left) of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. It’s a superlative image. At first I was surprised there wasn’t a 2009 photograph that could beat it. Then I realised it was only number one because it headed a NG piece debunking a list of 10 moon landing myths [8]. Be this as it may, next time I see a copy of NG, I’ll flick through it, look at the pics, and dream that one day I’ll take one even 10% as good. Dream on, Farmdoc.
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