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Blog (Drew): Congratulations to the winners of Fark's 2009 Headl. By Unfreakable At the end of every December we like to recap some of our favorite headlines from the year and let Fark vote on their favorites. In a year where most of the news wasn't positive, it was refreshing to see that Fark's legion of submitters stepped up and made us laugh when we arguably needed it most.

The following are the Top 20 headlines of 2009 as voted on by you. I've listed the quarterfinals threads after the winners if you'd like to check them out again. Here are the favorites as voted by Fark for last year: The Top Twenty Headlines of 2009: 20: Small plane rapidly plunges into bottom end of Virgin Islands, to be renamed Technical Virgin I 19: That foot found at a NY recycling center?

18. 17: Bolivian animal rights activists succeed in banning circuses from using animals, but now have to figure out what to do with 22 useless lions, a problem Detroit has faced for. 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. Sarcastic people of the world, unite: In the name of insincerity. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Apple fans left tributes to remember company founder Steve Jobs in stores on Wednesday night.

It's tough to write an appreciation of Steve Jobs. Probably the primary lesson the man taught - a lesson he most certainly lived - was never imitate, never simply chase success, always do what's in your gut. Risk failure, do great work. Yet every tribute to Jobs will feel a little bit like an echo of every other because the impression he left was so unmistakable. This morning, in remembering him, few of us will think different. Our age is defined by the computer and its offspring - by these devices, now inexpensive and interconnected, that let us write things, record things, learn things and do things in ways we never really imagined possible but suddenly take for granted. On "Star Trek," an iPhone would have seemed positively ridiculous, but look: The shiny little thing is right there in your hand. Make these things serve us, he believed. It's not all glory. Why?