Dying Fetus – Grotesque Impalement (Radio Disney Version) — another brilliant genre-bending cover from Andy Rehfeldt; related: Justin Bieber as death metal #

Making Love to WebKit — try scrolling; the 3D header doesn't contain any images (via) #

Where the top 100 box office films of 2011 are streaming — Netflix only had four of the top 100, less than half the previous year #

Google Image Search recursion — the Universe, Google, and LulzSec are featured prominently (via) #

My Guantánamo Nightmare — also: Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor; commemorating its shameful 10th anniversary (via) #

Kickstarter's Year in Review 2011 — amazing look back, don't miss the interactive stats post with nearly $100M pledged last year #

Key Features — commissioned interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin, with in-game objects available as MakerBot-printable designs #

The Restart Page — reboot sequences from retro GUIs (via) #

NASA goes open-source — finally, I can process National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project Sensor and Environmental Data Records! #

Kill Screen's top 25 games of 2011 — along with all the judges' ballots #

SOPA-supporting news networks uniformly ignored SOPA — CNN was the only network to mention it, once (via) #

horse_ebooks: This is a romantic story. If you do not — from a wonderful Tumblr of fanfic inspired by everyone's favorite spambot #

Vi Hart joins Khan Academy — my favorite mathemusician working one of the best online learning resources (via) #

Google penalizes Chrome homepage after paid links debacle — bizarre story of an ad buy gone awry and the self-flagellation that followed (via) #

@StealthMountain — the responses are hilarious #

Paypal hates violins — bizarre policy, I wonder what else they've ordered destroyed? #

Record MP3 — dead-simple utility for recording audio and getting a link, perfect for MTurk tasks #

Robot avatar brushes a cat remotely in virtual reality — using a Kinect, head-mounted display, Wii remotes, and treadmill for navigation #

Real-life Wipeout using quantum levitation — sadly, appears to be a rendered fake for a viral ad; but it's very doable #

Clay Johnson on confirmation bias and the election cycle — this should be an Internet law: "Anything we want to be true we can find online." #

Metafilter's Best Post Contest winners announced — some incredible entries, including Falco's career, Muppet Labs, and the untold story of Sesame Street's David #

js.js, a Javascript interpreter in Javascript — yo dawg; related: Narcissus, a more practical take on the same idea (via) #

Clean Your App Permissions — handy links to the popular app permission dashboards #

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment — "writhe in pain and dislodge the eagle!" #

Scrollorama — fun jQuery plugin for scrolling effects; related: Impress.js #

Code Year, learn to code in 2012 — free service from Codecademy sends an interactive coding lesson to you weekly (via) #

David Weinberger's Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Lists  #

James Joyce and Virginia Woolf copyrights expire tonight — sadly, no published U.S. works will enter the public domain until 2018 #

The Verge's best tech writing of 2011 — any list that starts with Paul Ford is solid, in my book #

Why Notch isn't hiring more Minecraft developers — concerned more hands will dilute the game's unique voice #

Shot-by-shot comparison of Raiders of the Lost Ark intro to vintage adventure movies — two years of editing, with scenes from 30 different films (via) #

Daniel Sinker's best hacker-journalism of 2011 — some really amazing work, and nearly all of it open-source #

Instant webserver for the current directory — with some handy alternatives in the comments (via) #

Wikipeetia — the mispelled misspelled encyclopedia (via) #

The Ramsey Brothers' Home Video Commentaries — "looking back, I feel I really did embody the role of little brother" (via) #

Marvel lawyers insist mutants aren't humans — to avoid getting taxed as "dolls," rather than lower for "toys"; story starts at 2:50 in the audio (via) #

imgur's best images of 2011 — also, MLKSHK's most liked images of the year #

New Yorker's profile of Carrie Brownstein's double-life — splitting time between music and comedy #

College professor seeds Internet with fake term paper to catch plagiarists — hilarity ensues #

Augmented Reality with Processing — great tutorial #

Tim Minchin's Woody Allen Jesus — ITV refused to air it (via) #

NYT on fair use and appropriation in the art world — more shifting attitudes on copyright and reuse #

It's A Wonderful Life, As Told By TV Sitcoms — and Back To The Future II #

Remaking famous artworks with photographs — the Dali remake won (via) #

Dissecting misogyny on a Reddit /r/atheism post — related: YouTube's reaction to the Gamer Girl Manifesto #

Penny Arcade destroys scumbag marketing firm — don't miss the questionable apology, just posted #

Said the Gramophone's Best Songs of 2011 — as always, thoughtful writing and selection (via) #

Stamen's Angry Birds time tracker — Mike open-sourced the code #

Metafilter backgrounder on the O Brother, Where Are Thou? soundtrack — song-by-song breakdown with supporting videos; watch Down from the Mountain on YouTube #

Fireplace beta — a pixelized fireplace for PC/Mac #