Can you believe it? We're but a few hours away from The Future ... and here I am, wallowing in the recent past. I reviewed a hell of a lot of great websites this year, but these 10 stand above all. If you missed them the first time, indulge yourself now.
 

This is why the web exists - as a forum for pure communication, thoughts and dreams. Anyone can add a "lowbrow moment" to this audacious site, and anyone should be you. I stay on this site for hours at a time, reading the lives of others into my own.
 

Frank H. Jump, a New York-based hyphenate, uses photographs of the Big Apple's fading outdoor advertisements as a metaphor for the dignity inherent to aging and decay. Beautiful and poignant.
 

Please, please, please, Mr. Dave Eggars, please print one of my humble little pieces in your funnier-than-Armageddon literary webzine. A batch of home-baked oatmeal cookies is forthcoming, lovingly sprinkled with the stimulants of your choice.
 

Finding the delivery van he once drove could be induced to backfire on command, Howard Stone did what any sensible man would do: mounted a hidden camera to the rear of the van and caught unwitting pedestrians in mid-retraction. This is the very nature of humankind, and boyoboy, is it ever funny when it happens to someone else.
 

Paul Lukas controls The Means of Production. His surprisingly thought-provoking reviews of offbeat and downright eccentric products - canned chicken, lawn paint, "Musk"-flavored Lifesavers - make you proud to live in a consumption-based culture.
 

Even if James Lileks' Gallery of Regrettable Foodstuffs attempted to explain 7-Up Cheese Filled Pancakes - yes, Virginia, made with the Uncola - or Beet Pie Casserole, there's no way on Earth you would believe him. Part of his Institute of Official Cheer site, one of the hippest pop culture sites you'll ever see.
 

You want unique? At 16-Color Cinema, anyone can turn out vividly entertaining 8-second animations with relative ease. Even the Passenger made a film, and I can't draw my own ass. Just imagine what you - a pure visionary - can do with this site.
 

The People's Photos is a web gallery made from discarded and forgotten snapshots; it broadens the definition of the term "found art" by grinning brute force. At the very least, after viewing this site, you'll never throw out another photo again.
 

The official site for this Spike Jonze film is as wonderful - and weird - as the film it promotes. Don't come here looking for clarity, or to figure out why John Malkovich's brain, in particular, was chosen as a tourist destination; just open your own mind, and let the site fill it with colorful static.
 

I waited almost a year before including Leisure Town as a Passenger Pick, mostly due to site creator Tristan A. Farnon's gleeful use of pejoratives. If you can take it, do: no amount of blue can discolor this site's fabulous black humor. More than a comic strip featuring twisty animal dolls, Leisure Town is a millennial freakin' statement: who we are, where we are, why we are. But man, can that cute little pig ever cuss up a storm.

Once again, I am indebted to Guy Schackman, Michelle Felice, Bryan Allison, and all the good folk at Vegas.com who have allowed me to rant and rave, uninterrupted, clear into the 21st Century. See you in the future, kids!