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 #

Staples announces in-store 3D printing — upload your designs to a website, pick them up locally #

Skrillex Quest — 8-bit glitch art meets dubstep, with more than a little Sword & Sworcery influence #

Amazon Random Shopper — Darius Kazemi's bot buys him random stuff from Amazon and he blogs the results (via) #

Ian Bogost on the Wii U — insightful look at Nintendo's history, the new Wii U slate, and existential despair #

The Grey Album, remastered — stream or download it from Soundcloud #

HTTP Status Rappers — first person to turn this into a browser add-on wins #

The Lying Disease — long feature on Munchausen by Internet; see also: Maciej's recent brush with someone faking cancer #

LARP TREK — "Very spiritual people, the Andorians." #

SIGGRAPH Asia's technical papers trailer — don't miss the mechanical toy solver, sculpt by numbers, and the lenslet array (via) #

ReCode Project — translating 1970s computer art to Processing (via) #

Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight Bundle — bringing players into their internal gamejam, vote on the pitches, and get prototypes #

Indie Game: The Movie covers distribution — this case study is amazing; don't miss the addendum about Louis C.K. #

Nekrogoblikon's "No One Survives" — trivia: death metal goblins love the iPhone #