1. Every Movie Available From Netflix On Demand
   This was a runaway favorite, because I don’t think there’s any other way out there to get an easy to read list of Netflix’s On-demand offerings.
2. Got Cowbell Fever? Here’s The 180+ Track Cure
   I have a cowbell addiction. So what? It’s a very common ailment in my family. This was a labor of love to compile this FineTune playlist, so if you have the fever, tune in for your prescription.
3. Better Blogroll Widget For Wordpress
   This plugin is easily the most popular one that I’ve written, and this update added more flexibility to which categories are displayed or hidden.
4. The Quest For Every Beard Type
   Beards are always popular around here (with me, anyway), and my quest to complete every beard type has been going on for years. Here are 19 of 33 types that I’ve completed and photographed because there’s probably something wrong with me.
5. Good Netflix Watch Now Additions For March 5
   Every few weeks I compile a list of good additions to the Netflix Watch Instantly service. I don’t know why this particular one was so popular, but maybe I can thank Kevin Smith.
6. What Would You Do If You Didn’t Have To Work?
   Everyone came up with some good ideas on what they’d do if they didn’t have to work, and I really need to compile the list to see if we can get some of you to your goals. If you didn’t throw in your two cents, there’s still time.
7. Please Don’t Try To Hump The Virtual Assistant A friend of mine works in speech recognition, and he sometimes sends me robots to mess with. And mess with them I do.
8. LOLWars and LOLTrek
   I was looking at some LOLCats, and really wished that there were LOLCreatures themed around Star Wars, so I made one. Then I got carried away and added one for Star Trek. Luckily #1GF! came home and stopped me from going any further.
9. Life of Riley Week 42 I have no idea why this particular Life of Riley post was so popular, other than the fact that it was the week that #1GF! forbid me from getting a job. The comment has since been retracted and even denied by said #1GF!. I smell a conspiracy.
10. FineTune Friday: Science Fiction Edition All the geeks rallied and squeezed this post into the top 10 this month. And why shouldn’t they? Who wouldn’t want to listen to a bunch of free science fiction based playlists? Probably the Jocks.

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Here are my top 25 posts from 2007. Surprisingly, almost every one of them was written after I quit my corporate gig to blog full time. I don’t know if that’s a result of more traffic or better writing. You’ll have to let me know if your favorite made the list.

I really can’t thank you enough for stopping by, and I hope your year was twice as good.

Happy New Year, everyone!

The Top 10 of 2007

1. The Beard FAQ
   This FAQ was intended to get men off the fence about growing a beard. This post absolutely blew up in 2007, making this the year of the beard.
2. My Favorite Yard Game: How To Play Kubb
   I was introduced to Kubb on a trip to Sweden years ago, and we play the game on the beach every summer. The instructions can seem complicated, so I made some Ikea-like instructions for the game. Study the rules and we’ll see you on the beach this summer.
3. How To Make A Ringtone From Your Favorite Song
   With companies charging up to $3 for a small snippet of a song, how can you afford not to read this article? The instructions are simple, the program to do it is free, and it takes less than 15 minutes.
4. 10 Tips To Get You Started With Google Sketchup
   Sketchup is a free 3-D rendering program that I used to plan upgrades to our house. It’s a great program, but there are a few gotchas that this article will help you to get around.
5. Make Your Own Kubb Set For Dirt Cheap
   I gave you the rules, so here’s how to build a set of your own. This article was my first traffic explosion of the year thanks to a little link from Make Magazine.
6. The Secret Lives Of Stormtroopers
   This is a collection of the funniest Stormtrooper photos I could find on flickr. Most people (like Danny Choo) were fine with being linked, but one cock head threatened to bill and then sue me for linking to him without express written permission. It was a fair amount of bullying that ended with a discussion of US copyright law. This was the first time that someone threatened to sue me.
7. How To Piss Me Off With Your Blog
   This has an inflammatory title, but it’s really a constructive article on how to improve your blog and make it more readable. You don’t piss me off. I’m a liar.
8. Three Free Multi Protocol Instant Messengers You Should Know About
   There’s no real need to use multiple IM programs to chat on different services (Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc.) when you can use a single program to talk on them all. I narrowed all the downloadable multi-protocol clients I could find into a field of three and then reviewed them to make choosing one easier.
9. 44 Ways To Enjoy The Super Mario Brothers Theme
   I had to stop at 44 ways because I found that I couldn’t get the tune out of my head. The list includes a top 10 and I even went so far as to list the instruments alphabetically. Posts like this convince me that there is something wrong with me.
10. Free As In Beer E Mail Subscription Icons
    We all get a lot of free stuff from the internet, and I wanted to give a little something back so I created a free icon set for e-mail subscriptions that looks like the standard RSS icon. I still owe the internet, but I thought it was a good start.

The Next 17

11. Better Blogroll Widget For WordPress
    I wrote the Better Blogroll Widget for WordPress and came out with a few revisions because I was unhappy with the way that WordPress handles blogrolls. This WordPress plugin creates the ability for a blog owner to display a random, rotating list of links or use picture links if they wish. WordPress is free and so is this plugin.
12. 66 Free Fonts For Halloween
    It’s free scary fonts broken up by category. And there’s 66 of them because I’m so satanic. Oooh. Look at scary man and his free fonts.
13. Life Of Riley Week 23
    Every week I chronicle my activities since I walked away from TPS reports and grey cubes and into a world of being a digital hobo. Why this particular week made the top 25 list is beyond me. It doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.
14. The Real Reason Your Blog Needs A Niche
    The lack of a niche almost seems to guarantee that personal bloggers will never make money from their personal sites. Unfortunately, no one ever mentions why. Here’s the reason.
15. Why Arent You On Facebook Yet Grampy
    If you look at my contact page, you’ll see that I’m on a ton of social networks. Facebook is on that list and very good for keeping digital tabs on your contacts. It’s more fun than LinkedIn, but a little more mature than MySpace.
16. Wordpress Tip: How To Change The Number Of Drafts Shown In Your Admin Panel
    I write a lot of drafts, so I put together this hack so that I wouldn’t have to scroll through 8 pages to see them all. This is how you can change it.
17. 7 Things To Do When Youre Naked
    This was my response to the American Association of Nude Recreation’s list of the top things to do while naked. I think if you have the audacity to walk around with your junk hanging out, you should be able to give some better suggestions to get people involved.
18. Free Windows Tool Auslogics Disk Defrag
    I love free software, and this free defragmentation tool is faster than the version that comes with Windows. If you don’t know what fragmentation is, this article explains what it is in simple terms.
19. Get Mcafee Virus Protection For Free
    I’ve used McAfee for a long, long time in both corporate and personal environments and I won’t knock them. This is how to get McAfee VirusScan legally for free. I love free.
20. The Top 10 Music Inspiring Horror Movies In The Public Domain
    The Misfits and others have used old horror movies as inspiration for songs, and a lot of those movies have fallen into the public domain. Because they’ve fallen out of copyright, you can legally download them for free.
21. 2 Girls 1 Cup: The Goatse Of A New Generation
    This link is work safe, but please don’t click it. You’ll have questions and want to know what 2 girls, 1 cup is. Then you’ll search for it and blame me once you see it. There’s only so much wrong you can pack into a single video, so just forget I said anything and go on with your life.
22. Ultimate Showdown Stormtroopers Vs Ninjas
    Who would win in a fight: A Stormtrooper or a Ninja? I think if you go through this article you’ll find yourself wondering how and why I compiled so much information about Stormtroopers and Ninjas. If you have an answer, definitely let me know because I’m a little afraid to think about it.
23. Are Blog Comments A Privilege Or A Right
    A reader was upset with having his comment deleted, so the answer was left in the hands of the readers.
24. Replayable Web Game Gimme Friction Baby
    A lot of people have taken to this game more than the other replayable games that I’ve featured. It’s the only game that was popular enough to crack the top 25, probably due to its unique gameplay.
25. Want More Traffic For Your Blog Stumble Into It
    If you’re looking for good traffic for your blog, I highly suggest getting involved in the StumbleUpon community. The traffic is sticky and there is a lot of it. Not to mention that it’s a good amount of fun. This article should get you started on the road to more traffic.

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Thanks for joining in, folks!

The Top 10 Commenters

1. N0ia of Just a Wee Bit Closer (#1 for the last 3 months)
2. Pablo
3. M-shell of Cynically Optimistic & Optimistically Bitter (#2 last month)
4. Yo sis (#10 last month)
5. (The original) K. of Enjoy and Exciting (#4 last month)
6. Funny Guy of Chexed
7. DigitalDarryl (#5 last month)
8. TheMayor of Ozweegoville
9. Sarah of Mainstream Obscenity
10. Molly B. of Model & Monkey

Do you want to get on this list? The stats have been cleared and next month is anybody’s game…

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1. The Beard FAQ
   Defeating the excuses of beardless men one by one. This. Is. SPARTA!
2. 10 Tips to Get You Started With Google Sketchup
   A few points to get your renovations started with the free 3D design product from Google.
3. Beard Shaving 2007
   I shave my beard off in stages every year. This was last years addition that I kept forgetting to publish.
4. Want More Traffic For Your Blog? Stumble Into It
   Traffic for personal blogs can be difficult to come by, but using StumbleUpon can bring in a ton of traffic for just being yourself.
5. FineTune Friday: Battle of the Sexes
   The last edition of FineTune Friday was boys versus girls. Who won? I’m not sure there was a clear winner, but there was some great playlists.
6. Hot Corn
   I don’t think this game is better than Avalanche, so I’m not sure how it took one of the top 10 spots. I imagine that it had something to do with google searches for unrelated terms though.
7. The Gentleman’s Guide to Trimming and Grooming
   Know a guy who has hair issues? The Gentleman’s Guide could help him get back on track and stay there for the rest of his life.
8. Nil Illegitimus Carborundum
   More traffic will bring more hate mail, but don’t let the bastards get you down.
9. Life of Riley Week 22
   On a weekly basis since quitting my job, I’ve been writing down what I learn during the week. I don’t know how this cracked the top ten because there was no mention of “hot corn” that I can find anywhere in the post.
10. Never Back Down From Tough Decisions Again
    10 Ways to get through any tough decision without giving up.

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1. The Real Reason Your Blog Needs a Niche
   Everyone says you need one. Here’s the reason why.
2. How to Change the Number of Drafts in the WordPress Admin Panel
   If you have a lot of draft posts in Wordpress, the standard 15 post limit just doesn’t cut it. Here’s a couple of ways to change that.
3. FineTune Friday Halloween Music
   FineTune Friday has produced some really great playlists and these are a lot of fun. You can stream all the music for free without any strings or signup required.
4. 9 Ways To Beat Writers Block On a Personal Blog
   There are a lot of writer’s block articles out there, but this one is specifically geared to the plight of the personal blogger.
5. Are Blog Comments A Privilege Or A Right?
   I don’t know if many people got the Homestar reference in the graphic I made for this one, but I was amused by it.
6. Money Tip: Find The Best Deals Without Any Math
   You can save time and money with this tip, and it’s easier than you think.
7. Netflix Watch Now Additions for October 5
   I try to keep you guys up to speed with the Netflix Watch Now additions and deletions. This batch featured a lot of good TV.
8. The Top 10 Music Inspiring Horror Movies In The Public Domain
   Want to know where some of your favorite bands get their inspiration? Some take it from public domain horror movies that you can legally download for free.
9. Are You Living the Dream Or Dreaming of Living?
   A hypothetical situation to help you gauge where your life is heading. For some it’s a wakeup call, for others, an affirmation. Where do you stand?
10. Get McAfee Virus Protection for Free
    This is some of the top virus protection software out there, and there are a couple of simple, perfectly legal ways to get it for free.

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Special thanks should go out to N0ia, who has been the top commenter for the second month in a row.

Thanks for all your support!

Top Commenters

1. N0ia of Just a Wee Bit Closer (#1 for last month)
2. M-shell of Cynically Optimistic & Optimistically Bitter (#6 last month)
3. Macoosh of Reflections of a Dream (#4 last month)
4. K. of Enjoy and Exciting
5. Digitaldarryl (#2 last month)
6. Jo Jo Monkey Man
7. Matthew
8. Forest Parks
9. Snoskred of Life in the Country
10. Yo sis

Do you want to get on this list? The stats have been cleared and next month is anybody’s game…

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1. n0ia of Just a Wee Bit Closer
2. digitaldarryl
3. MollyB of Timorous Totalitarians
4. Kerry of Reflections of a Dream
5. sarah of sarahveale.com
6. m-shell of Cynically Optimistic & Optimistically Bitter
7. KF Chud
8. kara of Condi’s Hair
9. jsin
10. Peter

Do you want to get on this list? The only way to do it is to join the discussion.

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1. How’s Work Going?
   To all my people stuck on Maggie’s Cube Farm.
2. More Stormtroopers: Tokyo Dance Trooper Video
   A Stormtrooper gets boogie fever.
3. The Secret Lives of Stormtroopers
   Stromtroopers in every day situations.
4. Gender Roles In The Eyes Of A Three year Old
   Kids say the darndest things.
5. Ultimate Showdown: Stormtroopers Vs. Ninjas
   Know who to call when someone’s picking on you.
6. I Still Look For Your Fingerprints Part 1 and Part 2
   The death of a teenager.
7. William Shatner and the Dancing Stormtroopers
   Shatner and Stormtroopers in one video.
8. Life of Riley Week 9
   The weekly summary of your favorite unemployed hobo.
9. Bubbles New Shed
   100 degree heat and a lot of swears. Built Bubbles tough.
10. Tips For My Elders: Social Bookmarking
    A time saving web tool that’s simple enough for your parents to learn.

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