They Might Be Giants' Dial-A-Song — a song a week all year, or get it direct from Drip.fm #

IGF 2015 finalists announced — a bright and beautiful snapshot of modern indie gaming #

We Used to be Friends — every episode of the first season of Friends, averaged together #

emoji.ink — emoji drawing tool (via) #

Augmented Hand Series — deform a hand in a box with machine vision #

Excuse-A-Day — great story of a guy who parodied Jonathan Mann, with a surprising ending #

Ev Williams on metrics — measuring views, users, and time are all proxies for value #

The Internet Archive adds 2,300+ MS-DOS games — stunning work, all playable in the browser; Jason Scott wrote about the project #

On Optimism — I consider myself less an optimist and more a magical realist #

indie.vc — very interesting, O'Reilly is experimenting with alternative funding models #

Zoe Quinn wraps up her weird year — the initial focus of #Gamergate's wrath looks forward #

"Choose Your Own Adventure" as live poetry — reminds me of ACTION CASTLE! #

The 2014 Panic Report — great post, but my favorite part is the second-to-last sentence #

AdVenture Capitalist — got hooked on this minimalist incremental game thanks to Notch (via) #

The Year in Kickstarter 2014 — in its fifth year, continuing to seriously impact culture; dig into the numbers #

The First Bad Man Store — Miranda July promotes her debut novel by auctioning items mentioned in it #

If Only Once, If Only For A Little While — "a comic about loss, coping, and the ways we deal with grief" #

Yahoo directory shuttered five days early — sad end to the index that opened my eyes to the wonder of the web #

Laurie Penny on nerd entitlement — the difference between nerd bullying and structural oppression (via) #

Solving the Holiday Bullshit 2014 puzzle — massive group effort to open a safe located on a Hawaii 2 #

Reply All on Keith Calder and One Direction shippers — consistently my favorite podcast #

Eric Meyer on Facebook's inadvertent algorithmic cruelty — their Year in Review app is a source of misery for several friends this year; don't miss his followup #

Supercut of Darlene Love on Letterman — 28 years of Letterman performances, her final appearance was last week #

Who invented the fake Ayn Rand film review? — I wrote a thing on plagiarism, comedy, and multiple discovery #

Updog — a revolutionary communications platform #

Jason Scott on DOSBOX in the browser — try ZZT, GODS, SEADRAGON, BREEZE, and many more #

Brandon Boyer's 20 Games You Shouldn't Miss in 2014 — every game I've played here has been gold, and the ones I haven't are high on my to-try list #

Sam Biddle on stirring and receiving Internet outrage — a rite of passage for every outgoing Valleywag editor, until Gawker stops funding their miserable behavior #

cinimated — animated remixes of scenes from live-action films (via) #

Said the Gramophone's Best Songs of 2014 — ten years of badass year-end mixes #

Notch outbids Jay-Z and Beyonce for $70M Beverly Hills mansion — indie 4 lyfe #

Yule Loggins — happy holidays from the Danger Zone (via) #

The Awl on Shitpics — the artifacts of any media format define its aesthetic like a cultural permalink #

Max Temkin on the logistics of Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Bullshit — the scratch-and-sniff poop button is an especially nice touch #

Reply All podcast tracks down Jennicam — don't miss the supplemental blog post #

NYT Mag on Yahoo under Marissa Mayer — worth reading if only for the "Bobbie Had a Nickel" anecdote #

The Nib's The Year in Garbage 2014 — so many of these are related to our ever-increasing interconnectedness #

O Human Star — this ongoing webcomic about robots and love is really, really good #

Lego Friends — how to make Lego sets more appealing to girls (via) #

Alexis Madrigal on Uber vs. Portland — compare that to its relationship with Airbnb #

Content, Forever — Darius Kazemi's thinkpiece generator powered by meandering Wikipedia entries #

Punch A Monet  #

Sortingh.at — interactive tool for game-making resources, built in Twine by Zoe Quinn #

Unedited Footage of a Bear — ask your doctor if Claridryl is right for you #

Motherboard on Computers Are People, Too! — bizarre Disney documentary on computer art from 1982 #

Auralnauts take on Terminator Genisys — every line of this slays me #

Decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 — uses the pop spreadsheet from the Whitburn Project #

What colour is it? — time represented as hex color; also: 1,000 Colours jigsaw puzzle #

The Old Pirate Bay — IsoHunt archived TPB for posterity after its seizure; Peter Sunde's thoughts on the closure #

Submarine Sandwich — amazing work by PES, as always #