Never mind the year in review, the satirical newspaper The Onion has the top 10 stories of the past 4.5 billion years. Coming in at number nine is the invention of fire, but number one is a report from trilobites that evolution is "progressing quite nicely." The article says that "the excited prehistoric organism went on to report that a number of interesting changes had occurred, including the sprouting of several new microbial communities, and the development of a process known only as photosynthesis, which the trilobite called 'hard to explain, but really, really cool.'"
HT: PZ Myers