voxel.js — open-source voxel game toolkit for modern browsers #

Buffy vs Edward Remix Unfairly Removed by Lionsgate — YouTube lets media companies decide what's fair use and what's not #

Every National Anthem at Once — this would save a lot of time at the Olympics #

BitTorrent Box brings streaming uTorrent to your TV — stream from a client running elsewhere or download straight to the box #

The Verge tries out the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset — Joshua Topolsky freaked out over it; live demo here, starting at 22:00 #

Anatomy of a 4chan Hoax — Buzzfeed watches on as they seed services with a fake history #

How Twitter uses MTurk to evaluate popular search terms — related: Clockwork Raven, their open-source interface for Mechanical Turk #

Qualcomm's insane and surreal CES keynote — with bonus Ballmer #

Kickstarter's Best of 2012 — XOXO was featured! #

Call Me Maybe Layered 147 Times — better than the original #

Kentucky Route Zero — stylish point-and-click Kickstarter-funded adventure for PC/Mac; nominated for four IGF categories #

Cart Life — dense and dark street vendor simulation, free but Windows-only; nominated for three IGF awards #

Mosh, the mobile shell — SSH replacement that assumes intermittent connectivity #

Trombone meets GoPro — instant audio visualization (via) #

The New Disruptors — Glenn Fleishman's new podcast on the creative indie economy #

Compressorhead's Ace of Spades — we've come a long way since the Rock-afire Explosion #

Don't worry, it's just electrostatic discharge — also: wire safety, fun with capacitors, and how to make a Windows shortcut (via) #

Andrew Sullivan goes indie and ad-free, $20/year membership — great interview with David Carr; "There's no sugar daddies anymore." #

Building an Outrun clone in Javascript — he also made tutorials for Pong, Breakout, Snake, Tetris, and Boulderdash #

Dance Like Nobody's Watching: Airport — incredibly infectious; earlier: Mall, Laundromat #

Crayon Creatures — 3D printed sandstone figurines from children's drawings (via) #

Wireframe.cc — dead simple, clean wireframing with a simple URL (via) #

Boil the Frog — wind a path between any two artists, from Iggy to Ozzy #

Daily Dot on the black market for YouTube views — these leeches are all over Fiverr: Facebook Likes and friends, Flickr views, Instagram likes, and 59k Twitter followers for $5 #

$100M pledged to indie film projects on Kickstarter — 86 theatrical releases, and three of Rotten Tomatoes' top 20 of 2012 were Kickstarter-funded #

How the blind use Instagram — Tommy Edison's Instagram stream is fascinating #

The King of Comedy (1983) — Scorsese's underrated followup to Raging Bull, it was a major box office flop #

BLK, multiplayer voxel world in JS — tech demo inspired by Minecraft, created as 20% project at Google #

The Data Behind "My Ideal Bookshelf" — Fred Benenson visualizes the relationships between notable people and their favorite books #

MASTABA SNOOPY — extremely bizarre Twine game set in a future dystopia based on Peanuts lore (via) #

Scripted Amiga Emulator — in pure JS and HTML5 #

What could have entered the public domain today? — works published in 1956 would've been available, but we're stuck waiting until 2052 #

Top 50 Most Anticipated Indie Games of 2013 — great list, and didn't even get to Kentucky Route Zero or Double Fine Adventure #

Numberphile — videos about numbers and stuff; related: everything by Vi Hart (via) #

Tenth Grade Tech Trends — like danah boyd's ethnographic studies, always good to get a different perspective #

Minecraft Reality for iOS — easily the nicest augmented reality app I've seen #

Census Dotmap — one dot for every person from the 2010 U.S. Census (via) #

Avalanche at Tunnel Creek — horrific story told with beautiful interactive article design #

Save Publishing — a bookmarklet by Paul Ford to find tweetable sentences on any page #

Tweeria — turns Twitter activity into a lazy RPG #

Kevin Kelly on replacing human jobs with robots — I love the Seven Stages of Robot Replacement at the end #

2012: A Banner Year for Indie Games — amazing year, and a great list of games #

Converting MP3s into 3D printed records — incredibly muddy, but still awesome (via) #

Screenshot-proof dithering — the proof-of-concept might trigger seizures (via) #

Flickr's Holiday Gift — three free months of Flickr Pro #

Music History in GIFs (via) #

Typingpool — Ryan Tate automated the process outlined in my post about transcribing audio with Mechanical Turk #

Ian Bogost on the first footage of Meteors — lawsuit surrounding the rare 1979 Asteroids clone created a legal precedent for clones #

Parker Higgins analyzes the Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire" lawsuit — I've heard Sunshine of Your Love a million times, but never noticed the Blue Moon quote #

100 Riffs on Soundslice — Adrian Holovaty transcribed the viral YouTube hit into tablature #