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) #

Rookie's Tavi Gevinson on teenagers and forever — "One way to avoid killing your heart is to decide that you will spend your whole life growing up." (via) #

Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt — tracking the creation of a shirt from funding to distribution #

explainshell — instant documentation for complex shell commands #

Amazon Prime Air — speculative corporate scifi; the 60 Minutes piece is fluffy but interesting #

Bringing back the beauty of Glitch locations — Rev. Dan Catt built a Glitch world viewer from the open-source release (via) #

Steven Wittens on Asm.js — "We really should aim higher than a language frozen after 10 days, thawing slowly over 20 years." (via) #

Hello Processing! — Daniel Shiffman's interactive video tutorial to learn Processing basics in an hour #

The Death and Life of Great Internet Cities — Geocities and Facebook through the lens of Jane Jacobs #

Beastie Boys threaten Goldieblox over "Girls" parody — Goldieblox sued for a declaratory judgement, so we'll actually get a ruling on this one #

Information is Beautiful 2013 Award Winners — the best of data visualization, the nominees are all great #

Feeling Cagey — a stream of Instagram selfies with a twist (via) #

Textual analysis of Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Twilight series — popular sentences, adjectives, adverbs distinct to each book #

GIF Dance Party — related: draw a character to appear in Major Bueno's party game #

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang — official free release of the full-length documentary about the most popular indie game ever #

AOL shuts down Winamp — Ars wrote the definitive feature on the decline of the MP3 player #

What Screens Want — Frank Chimero's thoughts on digital canvases from Build #

Upworthy Generator — when everything is upworthy, nothing will be #

Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" interactive video — genius, use your arrow keys to flip channels #

Incidental Comics — I'm an instant fan #

Alex Trebek Has Gone Insane, Vol. 9 — latest in a series of amazing remixes by Nick denBoer; he recently teamed with Cyriak for a Conan supercut (via) #

Alex Goldman revisits a BBS from his adolescence — still running, but in a state of quiet disrepair (via) #

Coloratura — haunting game played from an alien's perspective, winner of this year's IFComp #

Teehan+Lax's D.I.G.I.T. — seven-segment LED displays as a real-time mirror #

You Must Be — more random goodness from Darius Kazemi using the Wordnik API #

Chris Poole on Facebook and Snapchat — "ephemerality goes mainstream" #

Googlyify — add googly eyes to any animated GIF (via) #

Tiny Speck releases Glitch art and code to public domain — a massive dump of incredible work, over 10,000 assets from the pioneering game #

Anita Sarkeesian on the Ms. Male Character and Smurfette Principle in gaming — put a bow on it #

Tom Armitage's Driftwood talk — "toys and games for the Situationist beach" #

The New Yorker on Twitter bots — written by Rob Dubbin, the creator of several, including @exosaurs #

Fractal Orgy — can an equation be NSFW? apparently so #

With Great Power — even flying superheroes can hit glass ceilings #

Best Drops Ever — wait for it #

cachemonet — seizure warning #

Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity — "To share a story is in part to take ownership of it" #

Cards Against Humanity's Holiday Bullshit — 12 mystery gifts sent by mail over 12 days for $12; this will likely sell out in the next hour #

inFORM — MIT Media Lab's physical 3D interface manipulating raised pegs #

Vi Hart on YouTube's Google+ comments integration — among other problems, it favors Google+ trolls over actual fans; some lessons from Hank Green #

Twitter adds custom timelines — with a beta API, though you have to apply #

Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective — light installations, redemption, and Applebee's; Unity plugin required #

Kevin Kelly on self-publishing Cool Tools — he made a wonderful video introduction; buy it now on Amazon #

Full Movie GIFs — films condensed into 40-second animated GIFs (via) #

Real Life Instagram — all it's missing is an ad underneath #

Paul Ford on Twitter — oh yeah, and a bunch of people I know made a lot of money today #

Tom Comitta's ◯ — every rounded character in Unicode #

Knock — magical app, crossing my fingers for 1Password integration #