Better late than never, right? It is Friday after all. And who can blame you if you've been too busy cleaning up and working off your holiday pounds to think about the year 2004 in retrospective? The Times Lists its Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2004. It was a really fun year. Not.

1. The Girls Next Door


2. Without a Doubt

3. Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad

4. Movie Review: 'Fahrenheit 911'

5. Frank Rich: On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide

6. Iraq Videotape Shows the Decapitation of an American

7. How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence

8. Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq

9. Editorial: John Kerry for President

10. How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly