Top ten top ten top ten lists

In celebration of the new year, David "Everything is Miscellaneous" Weinberger has written up his "Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list" -- a list of ten great lists of top ten lists. He also includes seven articles about why we like top ten lists.

1. The Top Ten Top Ten Lists of All Time

2. TopTenz Miscellaneous

   MetaCritic music lists

3. Smosh’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists of 2011

4. Top Ten 2011 Top Ten Lists about CleanTech

5. Top Ten of top ten horror movie lists

6. NYT Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2011

7. Top Ten Top Ten Lists about Agile Management

   Top Ten Top Ten Video Lists of 2011

8. Top Ten Christmas Stuff Top Ten Lists

9. Urban Faith’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists

10. Brand Media Strategies Top Ten Top Ten Lists

My Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list

• [awjt]

  Recursion starts to get boring after the second iteration, and REALLY boring after the third.

  • [Just_Ok]

    aren’t there 7 iterations of hell?

    • [Felton / Moderator]

      Really?  I could have sworn I read a list of Top Ten Iterations of Hell once.

      • [awjt]

        If this comment gets 7 nested replies, I’m going to rescind my original whinge about boring recursion.

        • [Itsumishi]

          So you should. Recursion is awesome!

• [Andrew Burton]

  Inception! 

  … someone had to say it

  • [Just_Ok]

    you could have just dreamt it.

    • [awjt]

      I dreamt he dreamt it and that you commented.

• [morkl]

  Yo dawg, I heard you like top ten lists, so I put ten top ten lists in your top ten list so you can read top ten lists while you read top ten lists!

• [James Eagle]

  Thanks for those one thousand links!

• [ohAmanda]

  Thanks for linking to my Christmas post! I love me a good Top Ten. And a Top Ten Top Ten? Golden.

• [semiotix]

  I’m glad this is getting the recognition it deserves. It was #3 on my top ten top ten top ten top ten lists list.

• [SamSam]

  So is this 1000 different items, or is it 1111 items because each of the lists (including this top one) is an item itself?

  Also interesting to note (well, to me, anyway) that the “Top ten top ten top ten lists” can’t contain itself, because it isn’t a “top ten top ten list,” although if it had just billed itself as the “top ten lists” then it could, being a list. Yes?