January 2009 Top Picks

Five pages for January, seems to be our average.

Disallowed from both categories on a technicality was Coxxorz's HOC Night! which had 246 reads and 37 comments. This would have placed second in both categories if it had not been an event. Sorry Coxxorz. Sucks to be you.

Top January Stories by Read count:

• 253 reads - Now I really want that iPod touch
• 204 reads - Request: Burnout Paradise
• 177 reads - Better than Vista

  Read numbers way up across the chart. All three stories with well over 100 reads including two past 200 (there were a lot of stories with more than 100). Stormblade finding a comic comparing Vista to Hitler. Seems fair. Swag's desperate plea for a good game now that he finally has a good console. Welcome to the real world. What's it like becoming an adult? (Owww!!! Kettle meet pot.) And Blackwalt finds a good use for an iPod Touch and demonstrated that all HoC members are hoping for a world without Stormblade. ...again.

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Top January Stories by Comments:

• 52 comments - Now I really want that iPod touch
• 28 comments - Saturday Night's alright for...
• 26 comments - Better than Vista

  Stormblade and Hitler. Check. Stormblade vs. iPod Touch. Check. Don Cherry and Rock Band 2! What a brilliant crossover! What genius thought that up? Oh. Well of course. Never mind then.

Half-pint's top picks:

• The Evolution of a Christmas present
  It's a niche product.
• Morice Revek’s Book Review – HOC Style
  Some book I never heard of and will probably never read.
• Things you don't really want to hear from your three-year-old
  Small 'f' word? It's the big 'F' word I'm afraid of.

Top Numbers from previous months:

December: 23 comments, 198 reads
November: 20 comments, 123 reads
October: 19 comments, 129 reads
September: 21 comments, 132 reads.
August: 16 comments, 141 reads.