Happy Holidays! The SiliconANGLE news and editorial team came to a group decision: we wanted a few days off for the holidays. Since very little in the way of tech news will be happening over the next few days (and you’ll still be looking for content to voraciously consume), we’d round out the biggest stories of the year in an ongoing series called “What You Missed Living Under Your Rock During 2010.”

While this is, by no means, an exhaustive list, it represents our five favorite story-lines that made it into the rankings of the top ten ongoing stories we covered in 2010.

Christmas Eve!

• Kinect Hacks Revolutionize I/O – Kit Dotson – Before Kinect came out (and back when it was called Project Natal), Ramine and I were  pretty bullish on it. We thought it had the potential to revitalize Microsoft and change how we use technology. Kit Dotson’s been our beat writer on all the cool stuff coming out of the Kinect hacking movement, and it looks like the community she’s been documenting is bent on proving us right.
• 2010 Round Up: Cisco’s Ado … About Nothing? – Art Lindsey, III – One thing thing we pride ourself on here at SiliconANGLE is our ability to decipher the tea leaves on technology rumors, and bring out the stories that have substance amidst the chatter. One thing Art prides himself on, at least with this post, is deciphering our decipherings.
• Sex, Lies and Mark Hurd – Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins – No one was quite prepared for the public spectacle Mark Hurd turned the field of tech into. If you’d asked me earlier in the year whether we’d be covering softcore pornstars at SiliconANGLE, I’d have looked at you like you were crazy. Yet, thanks to ex-HP and current SAP exec, here we are.

Monday After Christmas!

• Mister Ellison’s Wild Ride – Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins – In the same way that MG Siegler and Devin Coldewey are the clown princes of technology journalism, Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd have become the clown princes of the technology business. What started out as a simple $4 billion lawsuit ended up as Larry Ellison’s character assassination campaign against Leo Apotheker and the executive management at HP. Read the thrilling conclusion of the Mark Hurd Saga (or is it?!).
• The Limewire Roller Coaster Crash – Kit Dotson – One thing I learned back when I was at Mashable was that you don’t insult a person’s source of music – any time I spoke ill of MySpace, hoards of music fans would descend upon the site to insult my parentage and question the need for my continued existence. We re-learned that lesson here at SiliconANGLE when we were genuinely overwhelmed by the response to our coverage of the destruction of Limewire.

Note: Some of these stories are scheduled to be posted over the course of the weekend, so when you’re reading this, the link may go to a 404 error. That’s your cue to hit the back button, read the stories that have been posted, and book mark this page to read while the kids are running around playing with their new toys over the weekend.