Movie Code — on-screen source code in movies, and what it actually does #

The NYT editorial board argues clemency for Edward Snowden — "He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service." #

The Atlantic reverse-engineers Netflix's subgenre categories — awesome data journalism by Alexis Madrigal with a genre generator by Ian Bogost #

Levitating with sound waves in 3D space — the video is nuts (via) #

Lessons from DayZ's early access — the biggest innovation from Minecraft, and a growing model for all media #

Year in Metafilter 2013 — part of Metafilter Labs, data experiments from the 15-year-old community #

Ernesto, a quick RPG — a tiny game by Daniel Benmergui #

Song Exploder — new Maximum Fun podcast asks artists to break apart one of their songs with isolated audio #

Mat Honan on his year wearing Google Glass — glasshats, glasswipes, and glassholes #

Extracting reflected hidden faces from pupils in photographs — combine this with deblurring, and we're in "let's enhance" territory #

A Second Christmas Morning — Jason Scott announces the Internet Archive's Console Living Room project #

Voxel Mars — global-scale reproduction of Mars using voxel.js #

Kung Fury — one of the best movie trailers I've ever seen #

Anatomy of a Spelunky miracle — Doug Wilson's approachable breakdown of one of gaming's most insane feats #

Creative Applications' top 10 projects of 2013 — several new to me (via) #

Alexis Madrigal on soundboard telemarketers — reminds me of the celebrity soundboard pranks of the early 2000s #

Spotiamp — Spotify's Ludde pays a tribute to Winamp #

Zeno of Elea — I can't wait to play #

PKPKT — a social iOS game of pickpocketing #

The blog is dead, long live the blog — Kottke on blogging, with more on his blog #

Myulezak — Chrome add-on adds holiday mall sounds to e-commerce sites (via) #

Hatching Twitter optioned for TV show — start your fantasy casting now #

Traffic reorganized by car color — more details about how it was made (via) #

The Gold Factory — another frustratingly addictive incremental game like Candy Box #

Space Jam in three.js — the original is still frozen in time #

Shia LaBeouf plagiarizes Dan Clowes for short film — then plagiarized his apology from Yahoo Answers #

Switched On Road Runner — classic cartoons rescored with a modular synthesizer (via) #

The Awl on the blog comment spam freakout — a direct result of Google's Penguin 2.1 changes (via) #

Inscrutable — the perfect webfont (via) #

All Rappers Love Connect Four — who doesn't? #

A Year of the New Disruptors — one of my favorite new podcasts revisits its first four interviewees, one year later #

On Susan's fate after Narnia — the author's followup is worth reading (via) #

Annalee Newitz on the linguistics of the doge meme — "Doges bring a subversive plurality to the LOLcat's stark, single statements." #

Anitype — animate letters with Javascript; browse the entries #

Glitch in the Afterlife — Stewart Butterfield writes about the decision to put Glitch's art assets into the public domain #

Samantha West, the robot telemarketer who denies she's a robot — that laugh creeps me out #

Matthew Rothenberg's behind-the-scenes of making Emojitracker — kind of intense how much went into creating it #

John Roderick on the Long Winters and his unlikely career — "An indie-rock label really did save my life." #

OriDomi — fold the DOM like paper #

WikiGIFs — every animated GIF on Wikipedia (via) #

Download all your Gmail and Google Calendar data — IMAP was an option for backups, but very cumbersome (via) #

Henry Smith on the success of Spaceteam — success is not always measured in dollars #

Ev Williams on Medium 1.0 — beautiful publishing platform; nice to see export already built in #

Meatspace — keep forgetting to link to this playful animated GIF-driven chatroom #

Moonjs — simulating the Apollo Guidance Computer in the browser (via) #

gifpop — turn animated GIFs into lenticular-printed cards #

Yule Log 2.0 — infinite loop of lovely fireplace animations #

Boys' Night, a comic about Mickey Mouse's mid-life crisis — written by Max Landis (via) #

Polygon's history of the boys-only stereotype for videogames — tracking the shift to heavily gendered marketing in the '90s (via) #

Buzzfeed report on ad licensing for indie musicians — "These big companies are the last people paying musicians what they are worth." (via) #