The 2002 Moby awards currently on the Mobilives homepage is a hilarious read.

There is a a provocative commentary on "the most overrated and underrated ideas" in NYT

LAT profiles the faces to watch for in 2003. LAT website has an annoying registration process that you have to go through to access this. But they post a lot of good stuff these days. So you may want to swallow your dislike and get it over with now. (via Modern Art Notes)

Yahoo's Year in review is quite good. (via Cyberjournalist)

There is an interesting looking best albums of 2002 list in Pitchfork (via Fimoculous). I am completely clued out out contemporary music and haven't even heard most of the names on that list :(.

Year in Pictures:
Washington Post
MSNBC