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.

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My Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list

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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.
      - http://www.ikaink.net 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!
http://jimeagle.com James Eagle

Thanks for those one thousand links!
http://ohamanda.com/ 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?