The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

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1. Pitchfork‘s top 100 tracks of 2009 list is up, and Animal Collective nabbed the number one slot with “My Girls.” (Dirty Projectors‘ “Stillness Is the Move” came in second; Phoenix, “1901,” third.) [via Pitchfork] 2. Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air swept this morning’s 2010 Golden Globe nominations with six nods. Glee dominated the TV categories with four nominations. [via ArtsBeat] 3. Are its latest privacy settings a sign that Facebook has crossed over to the dark side? [via Gawker] 4. ABBA and The Stooges are among this year’s inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Unfortunately for Gene Simmons and his family jewels, Kiss got dissed. [via Rolling Stone] 5. Australia — a democracy, mind you — is planning to introduce an Internet filtering system that would block “obscene and crime-linked Web sites.” [via HuffPo]

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