Year-end Lists 2023: Best of Blogs and Websites

(Image credit: Archives New Zealand) 

Fark's Headline of the Year Contenders. Also see links to other HOTY contenders in various categories.

The Most-Liked Instagram Posts Of 2023.

A few last-minute gift ideas you aren’t really thinking about. (But really, an excuse for us to look back at 2023 in Tedium.)

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2023.  

Smithsonian's Top Ten Stories of 2023. 

The Best of Strange Company 2023.

I Met a Wonderful Lizard: The Stopgap's Year in Review.

The Best Amusing Planet Stories of 2023.

Mental Floss's 25 Most Popular Stories of 2023.

Curbed’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2023.

Atlas Obscura's Year in Wonder 2023, broken into categories.

Best of the Infidel, 2023.

Ars Technica's 20 most-read stories of 2023. 

A thread of Zillow Gone Wild's favorite homes of 2023.

The Top Moss and Fog Stories of 2023. 

What Were Slashdot's Top 10 Stories of 2023? 

McSweeney’s Top 20 of ’23.
 

The Handoff


The personification of the year 2023 is trying to get his replacement up to speed. But how do you explain what 2023 is all about in just a couple of minutes? It can't be done. But 2023 is in a hurry to leave, so the new guy, 2024, is starting off clueless. Good luck! 

Check back, because I may be adding more to this list as the links become available. Lat me know if you see any I missed. See all the year-end lists here.