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A dozen sites
I'm diggin'

*1. Watch this video about the Gaza tunnels to understand the story behind them.

*2. Find out how old your car is in human years.

*3. How do those yellow lines get inserted in NFL coverage?

4. Top online advertising trends for 2009

5. Eight trends in real estate in 2009

6. 2009 trends in bariatric surgery

7. Why grocery inflation could ease in 2009

8. The Urban Land Institute's commercial real estate forecast for 2009. (This is grimmer than grim.)

9. Fourteen predictions about social media in the year ahead

10. National Public Radio's 2009 music predictions (with a little help from an astrologer/psychic.)

11. Predictions about wine in 2009 

12. Twelve CMS-related predictions for the upcoming year. One thing is for sure: Metadata tagging and Web analytics will be vital for sites.

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