Today Maxim released its Hot 100 List of the world’s most beautiful women for 2008. Normally, I’d pay about as much attention to this as to anything else Maxim has to say, but this year I was pretty excited to see that Lindsay Lohan made the list at #9, while Britney Spears clocked in at #19. My HTML skills are rather poor, so “pretty excited” is my substitute for putting that line in 24-point bold font, followed by “WTF!!!1!” repeated four times in four different colors. Of course, it’s possible this is actually 2003, in which case I stand corrected and promise to calm down.

Among its many other virtues, Maxim uses the most tedious click-through format imaginable for its lists, just to maximize (heh!) hits, and nobody’s going to bother with that. So here are the top ten on the list, along with a few other names that will put the placement of La Lohan and Britney in perspective. We’ll tuck them below the jump, just to let the edge-of-your-seat, who-gives-a-rat’s-ass excitement build:

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