As we count down the minutes to 2011 in the almost eerily quiet Atom offices, we thought we’d take a quick moment to present an extremely incomplete list of some of the great things we did in 2010. From the finale of our biggest series, Legend Of Neil, to narrowly avoiding a Tommy Wiseau-inspired riot at Comic-Con, to the launch of the Tournament, things got a little nuts this year, and here are just a few of our favorite things that happened.

Big old congrats to our friend Ben Lerman, whose delightfully dirty ukulele ditty is rated in the Brilliant/Lowbrow quadrant of New York Magazine’s latest Approval Matrix.

Color us impressed. We had to grab our trusty Websters to even decipher what a “matrix of taste hierarchies” is.

Go, Ben, go!

Well, looks like the bellies full of Christmas cookies and egg-nog-induced trances weren’t enough to keep you all from voting with your views in this week’s Tournament. It seems that many a holiday was spent the old fashioned way: with the whole family gathered ’round the soothing blue glow of the old computer, dreams of cash and prizes dancing in competitor’s heads. So who emerged victorious week? Who’s going to have some extra cash in their pocket this New Year’s Eve to blow on novelty noisemakers?

Take a look after the jump:

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For the next twelve days we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

So there are these two guys. They’re in this band called the Insane Clown Posse. They wear face paint to look like said clowns and they sing about bitches and ejaculation, but they secretly love Jesus. Their followers are called “Juggalos” or “Jugallettes,” and sometimes “Down-Ass Ninjas.”

How to accurately describe a Juggalo? The true nature of a Ninja can only be felt with the heart, sensed with the soul, dreamed about in a haze of Mad Dog and weed resin smoked out of a rusted-out Mountain Dew can fished out of that sluggish creek behind PJ’s house. Let Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, the masterminds behind ICP, explain to you:

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

Have you found yourself scrambling to buy a last minute gift for your favorite cast member of Glee? What, are you a stalker? You probably are. Or maybe you’re just looking to buy your favorite “gleek” something that’ll make them break into pre-choreographed, auto-tuned musical medleys of pop and/or Broadway hits. Either way, here’s a list of the stuff I would buy the kids on Glee, if they were real, and I knew them, and wanted to, you know, buy them a present.

A change of clothes for those cheerleaders.

Here we are, friends, nearing the end of the year. It’s a time for reflection, good will, and CASHING IN ON THE ATOM TOURNAMENT SO YOU CAN BUY SWWEEEEEETTTTT PRESENTS FOR YOURSELF. What better gift can we give than $500 American and a T-shirt with our logo on it? I can’t think of anything better, that’s why I got my whole family the same thing. Anyway, the top 10 videos are pretty sweet this week. Aaron Glaser has hit his stride, and is cleaning up! Can you topple his winning streak? Let me see what you’ve got in the facebook group, and maybe you’ll be in the top 10 next week.

Take a look at your hardened competitors after the jump…

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

As the 2010 Gift Guide rolls into the home stretch, (and after my last fawning entry for a certain foreign Princess-to-be), let’s spare a moment for a true American treasure, Celebrity Politician Sarah Palin. In a year when her reality show took educational cable by storm, her Main Daughter danced with other stars, and her Other Daughter got a teeny, tiny bit homophobic, I think we can all agree that True American Hero Sarah Palin deserves a gift or two. So for the half of you who have S. Palin on the “Nice” side of your present list this year, you could do worse than picking up one or two of these gifts.

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

Shopping for that gal in your life with an affinity for cosmetic surgery, a glut of sycophantic hangers on, and delusions of grandeur? You must be in the market for the perfect gift for one of the vapid stars of the Real Housewives franchise.

I’m not going to address your debatable choice in associates; I’m here to help. Let’s face it, these dames are (read: really want to appear) richer than Guam, so scoring them just the right gift might be a little challenging, unless you happen to be a psychiatrist with an itchy prescription finger.

While what they really need is a healthy dose of validation, and maybe a hug, those are a bit too intangible (and cheap–yeesh!) for their hearts as black as their AmEx cards.

Try these, instead:

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

The biggest problem with Christmas shopping for Oprah is that not only does she make a list of stuff that she’s digging this year, but she buys it for herself and everyone she knows, and then devotes a TV show to it. That basically makes her impossible to shop for. If you’re somehow lucky enough to have made it on to Oprah’s Christmas list (lucky you) and don’t know what to get her in return, take a look at this handy list. Gayle, I’ve got you covered.

Imagine standing on the side of some brutal December-time street, your round little kid cheeks chapped from the stinging wind, balling your little kid fingers in little fists of delight inside your little furry mittens, in awe at the sheer joy of seeing Santa at the annual Christmas parade. Maybe he got my letter! Maybe he’ll let me pet the reindeer! Here he comes! Oooh!

Oh, but–Mama, why’s he yelling? Why’s he saying that bad, bad word? Why’s he hitting that big kid?? The policeman, Mama, he’s…taking Santa away! Is…is Santa going to…jail?

And BOOM, just like that, your wish list goes up in flames, your childhood wonder evaporates, the innocence in your eyes extinguishes forever, and Santa joins the ranks of mere mortals, just another “bad man” that you see on TV.