Adam Parrish on The Joking Computer — a bot that can make up bad puns #

Anil Dash on the perceived vs. actual value of Twitter's suggested user list — most new users aren't active or engaged, so clickthroughs and replies don't change with the influx #

Demo of Proswitcher, multitasking for jailbroken iPhones — the only thing that makes me jealous of the Pre (via) #

DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2009 — mashing up Billboard's Top 25 of 2009 into a completely new song #

PVRBlog's The Decade of DVR — Matt Haughey gets some help from web superstars for his last post before the transition #

Tuper Tario Tros. — Mario meets Tetris mashup, with a challenging ending #

Robin Sloan's Annabel Scheme — brilliant novella about quantum computing and the digital occult #

Slate on Sweden's Christmas Eve tradition of watching a Disney clip show — in 1997, over half the country watched the animated special, first aired in 1958 (via) #

CrowdsMachine — find popular links across all your feeds, and surface a new feed of the results #

Reverse engineering Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton — someone do DJ Shadow and the Avalanches next! #

Alma — haunting short film by a Pixar animator, only viewable for a short time (via) #

4chan founder to speak at TED — I fully expect Anonymous to show up #

Yahoo! to close MyBlogLog next month — what a waste #

Fimoculous's List of Lists 2009 — related: Kottke's best of the decade lists #

Jonathan Zittrain's "Minds for Sale" — great talk on crowdsourcing and the fine line between volunteering and exploitation #

Metaplace closing January 1 — horrible shutdown procedure: ten days' notice during the holidays to save everything manually #

Wired on the Duke Nukem Forever saga — like the Phantom Menace, the lack of constraints can lead to disaster #

HP's face-tracking software is racist — in their official response, they blame "insufficient foreground lighting" (via) #

Every day the same dream — think outside the box (via) #

Ed Piskor releases Wizzywig Volume 1 and 2 for free download — fictional comic history about the hacking/phreaking scene; I bought both and am anxiously awaiting Volume 3 (via) #

Chris Dixon's anatomy of a bad search result — great followup to Paul Kedrosky's original post about trouble in the Google ecosystem #

Multiplayer Basketball — even a simple basketball game becomes compelling with multiple realtime players #

_why's Estate — an archive of artist/coder _why the lucky stiff's known works (via) #

Swedish Pirate Party launches public Etherpad service — using the newly open-sourced code base #

Pomplamoose, "Always in the Season" — a new Christmas carol, with Anton Patzner on violin and Zoe Keating on cello #

Browser Pong — only works in modern browsers, uses HTML5 audio #

Matt Haughey defends the use of Twitter during personal tragedy — I wonder how much of the criticism stems from perceptions of Twitter as frivolous #

70-minute video review of the Phantom Menace — more than half the length of the film itself #

Dresden Codak's Lantern Season — every one of Aaron Diaz's comics are fantastic; don't miss The Sleepwalkers and Fabulous Prizes (via) #

Michael Johansson's obsessive-compulsive sculpture — packing feats and ordinary objects reassembled to look like model toys #

Kleptones to release new album for free on January 1 at midnight — so exciting; I still think Night at the Hip-Hopera is the best mashup album ever #

Google Maps India evolves driving directions to use local landmarks — street names are often unknown, so they just describe what you'll pass by #

Reddit community forms largest Secret Santa gift exchange ever — 4,500 members spent $115k on gifts; here's an interview with the founder #

Mag+, digital magazine UI design concept — the most thoughtful and realistic I've seen #

OK To Go — a collage of hyperspace scenes in film (via) #

Facebook Data team releases study on user ethnicity — they compare it to the demographics of the Internet and United States #

Google Browser Size — this would be great for Analytics, to view your community's actual screen sizes #

Let's Enhance — montage of zoom in and enhance scenes; I blame Ridley Scott (via) #

Plotter Drawings from the 1960s — from the Digital Art Museum (via) #

Desaturated Santa — she should hang out with pixelated girl and polygon guy #

Nifflas releases Saira — PC exploration game, like the Knytt series with a more elaborate storyline and gameplay #

Craigslist unblocks Yahoo! Pipes — good to hear, thanks Jeremy #

Colbert joins Alicia Keys on New York State of Mind — "I own this town from 41st to 47th" #

The LOST Underground Art Show — from the gallery that started Crazy 4 Cult 3-D #

Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins of "Friendster" Civilization — they were acquired last week for $26M by a Malaysian company; the pre-IPO Google offer could've been worth $1B today (via) #

Brandon Boyer's top 10 indie and iPhone games of 2009 — my top 10 would be virtually identical; I haven't played Saira yet, but soon #

Bygone Bureau on the best new blogs of 2009 — they asked several people, including me, for our favorites #

Capitol Records sues Vimeo over lip dubs — mind-numbingly stupid, the videos are free viral ads for their catalog; related: ASCAP demanding fees for Guitar Hero parties #

How MC Frontalot quit smoking with Dungeons & Dragons — roll a D20 saving throw whenever the GM tries to poison you (i.e. when you feel like smoking) (via) #

Todd McHatton's Christmas Songs — my brother-in-law's free holiday EP, for fans of Van Dyke Parks and Nilsson #