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 #

The Basement — I found a scan of the clipped 1918 map in the Oregonian archives #

Wired's text adventure interview with Infocom's Dave Lebling and Steve Meretzky — a playable game powered by Playfic, the site I launched earlier this year #

Echo Nest's Brian Whitman on how music recommendation works  #

NYT on the Wirecutter — making $50k/month on affiliate links, instead of traditional ads (via) #

Commodore 64 Christmas Demos  #

VHX's State of Distribution PSA — one of my favorite new startups #

2012: A Jam Odyssey — awesome This Is My Jam mashup using Echo Nest for beat matching #

Cards Against Humanity's holiday stats — surprise ending #

Twitter rolling out the ability to download your full tweet history — I don't have it yet, but it's been spotted in the wild #

Spaceteam — brilliant free local multiplayer game for iOS; a perfect bar game #

Syrian rebels make gamepad-controlled tank — the machine gun's controlled with a generic PS2 controller (via) #

Tuning '77 — audio supercut of 90 minutes of the Grateful Dead tuning their instruments from 1977 shows (via) #

The Web We Lost — Anil Dash on the changing nature of the social web #

box2d-jquery — this is begging to be a bookmarklet or browser addon (via) #

The Art of Incredipede — beautiful video looking at the game's woodcut style #

The Kingdom of Cipher — the most beautiful Minecraft construction I've seen #

Jason Scott on software emulation of CRT monitors — don't miss the demo video #

Polygon on Johann Sebastian Joust — their project, which includes three other amazing games, has 70 hours to raise $60k #

AOL's history told through the NYT crossword puzzle — very clever, I'd like to see Yahoo's next (via) #

Designing for color accessibility — the colorblind, like me, will thank you #

Craig Mod on subcompact publishing — I'm late to this, but this is the smartest thing I've read about publishing this year #

Try R — interactive tutorial on the stats/infoviz tool #

Songs About Us — a great Ze Frank project; submit your own and see them all #

Apple to manufacture Mac line in U.S.A. — related: The Atlantic on the insourcing boom #

Photobooth.js — the last reason to use Flash falls #

Christmas GIFs (via) #

LOOT The Game — like all of jmtb02's games, purified game crack #

History of hip-hop sampling videogame soundtracks — though it turned out that Lil Wayne didn't sample Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery soundtrack #

The Carp and the Seagull — a three.js interactive story #

NYT on John McAfee — he's posting updates to his blog, currently on the run with two Vice reporters #

Pinokio, animatronic lamp made with Arduino/Processing — like Pixar Jr. made real; great build log #

The Daily closes its doors — and since they never published indexes and blocked robots, it's in the memory hole #

Gamasutra interviews Stewart on why Glitch shut down — sad to say, I had no idea you could do 90% of what's in this video #

Matt Haughey on Facebook vs. Twitter — Facebook is for proximity-based relationships, Twitter is interest-based #

The Brief — inspired by Evening Edition, daily summaries on tech news that matters #

Bad Kids Jokes — when it doubt, "poop" is the best punchline #

Lunar Trails, physical plots of Lunar Lander playthroughs — related: Sam van Doorn's painting device built with pinball parts #