The Archies: Fourth Annual Outlived-Its-Welcome Edition

The Archies, named after my son (or the pride of Riverdale High, take your pick), is a list of the Top ___ (your number here) Things in the World. Listed items must be things in the world, and must have played a significant role in your year. Significance, as will soon become clear, is to be defined solely by subjective criteria.

I refrain from mentioning the perennial Top Things in the World: Noel, Archer, and Cady Gray. To avoid tiresome repetition, immediate family members have been retired as members of the Archies Hall of Fame. Things done by said family members remain eligible for the annual list.

Previous editions: 2006, 2007, 2008. Remember: Much like Time Magazine's "Man Of The Year," these need not be your favorite things in the world, only the top things in the world. Play along at your own site or in the comments, anytime through the month of January.

The Archies: Top 51 Things In The World, 2009

1. Mario Kart Wii
2. Starbucks shaken iced tea (venti black unsweetened)
3. Signature Needle Arts straight needles
4. The Dizzy Sheep
5. Evernote
6. M&M's Premium
7. In-flight wifi
8. Chess club
9. Prayer shawl ministries
10. Coraline
11. James Franco
12. Meryl Streep
13. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
14. Quirk Classics
15. Vanilla bean scones
16. Sonic Route 44 Diet Coke
17. Malabrigo Worsted
18. Super Mario Galaxy
19. Barack Hussein Obama
20. Skip's Foreign Car Repair
21. T-shirt yarn
22. Tuesday Morning
23. Ice Cubes spearmint gum
24. The Sausage McGriddle
25. Google Wave
26. Lauren Knetzer Kopf
27. The four people I've taught to knit
28. Mr. Greenjeans
29. Running club
30. Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus
31. The No S diet
32. Strategic planning
33. They Might Be Giants, "Meet The Elements"
34. So You Think You Can Dance Season 5
35. Kimberli Pollard
36. The Luau Lounge Friday night chat
37. Shrimp fried rice! Shrimp fried rice!
38. Jason Segal
39. Paul Rudd
40. The Complete Little Orphan Annie Vol. 4
41. The iPhone
42. Portia Di Rossi
43. Neil Patrick Harris
44. Web Soup
45. Joel McHale
46. WIP Wrestlemania '09
47. KeePass
48. Google Chrome
49. Bronson Pinchot's Random Roles
50. Wrapped Up In Books inaugural Geek Love edition
51. David Copperfield