Tracking streaming vs. rental availability for 2010's box office hits — only four of last year's top 50 are streaming on Netflix, but 25 films for rental on iTunes #

Horoscoped — meta-horoscope derived from 22,000 scraped horoscopes #

Dan Provost's postmortem on making the Glif — all the tools used for two guys to take a physical product from idea to mass market in five months #

Cowclickification — Ian Bogost takes his parody of Facebook Games to the next logical level #

Evan Roth's Mashed Up Mashup — mashing up Girl Talk with Girl Talk (via) #

Starborn — a five-minute interactive story; type the capitalized words to play (via) #

Big Picture creator Alan Taylor moves to The Atlantic — I interviewed Alan the month it launched; it now gets 8M pageviews monthly #

Aled Lewis' Make Something Cool Every Day — my favorite: Haters Gonna Hate-Bit (via) #

Das Racist's Who's That? Brooown! — playable ode to 8-bit and EGA-era gaming #

Plastic.com to shut down one month after 10 year anniversary — get nostalgic with the 2001 press release; I love the Kurt Andersen quote (via) #

ProPublica's guide to scraping data — using free tools to get structured data out of messy HTML, PDFs and Flash (via) #

Music for Shuffle Mode — he hid the transition glitches by incorporating them into every track (via) #

Pong, Breakout, Pac-Man, and pinball played with living paramecium — the full videos go deeper, with several more games #

"Still Alive" in Minecraft — note blocks are new in beta 1.2 (via) #

Clay Shirky celebrates 10 years of Wikipedia — it has its faults, but it's still a collective wonder #

Gizmodo on one MMO's attempt at crowdsourced justice — self-managing communities are difficult to design; I hope they pull it off #

Grand Theft Auto Frictionless — setting the wheel friction to a negative number wreaks havoc with physics (via) #

Death Wears A Snuggie — first-person account of manning a Wyoming nuclear missile silo (via) #

Jeopardy practice match with IBM's Watson supercomputer — with Watson's answer certainty displayed in real-time #

Gabriela Herman's Blogger Portraits — reminds me of Phillip Toledano's portraits of gamers and phone sex workers #

bieber.ly — update: cease and desisted already! (via) #

Every Line of Dialogue in The Lost Boys is "Michael" — all 114 of them; added to the list (via) #

Google Translate for Android adds real-time conversation mode — the Babel fish is near #

Nominees for Reddit's Best of 2010 Awards — an amazing community, the comment nominees are brilliant #

reblololo's Studies 1 — also, Mona removed #

A Day in the Future — everything is amazing #

What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? — or: how technology can make even 22-year-olds feel old #

A gadget's life — interactive graphic tracks the lifecycle of popular tech adjusted for inflation (via) #

Google Chrome to drop support for H.264 video — kind of baffling, considering Flash is built into their browser #

Why Twitter challenged the secret Wikileaks subpoenas — as Wired said, "Twitter beta-tested a spine" (via) #

oops, found video of camera drops — old, but new to me; brilliantly edited, winner of the Vimeo Awards Experimental category (via) #

Notabilia — visualizing Articles for Deletion debates on Wikipedia (via) #

NASA, The Frontier Is Everywhere — promo video made by a fan frustrated with the agency's communication skills (via) #

Dot Dot Dot — kinetic typography of a dramatic reading of a dumb review of a silly game #

Kinect 3D statues in Minecraft — more detail on the original site, which is getting hammered (via) #

The Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers — stats from 2010, with the biggest projects, most prolific creators and backers, and more #

Google Science Fair Experiment — another Rube Goldberg machine from the geeks at Syyn Labs #

Glengarry Glen Sith — "Always. Be. Choking." #

Energy and Dynamic Braking — aka hypnotic high-speed footage of stuff dropping on squishy stuff #

French kids play with vintage technology — at 2:35, playing with the "old CDs," a DJ is born #

Why Wasn't I Consulted? — Paul Ford on the Web as a customer service medium #

RIP Bill Zeller — Matt Haughey and Metafilter eulogize a talented, but troubled, programmer #

James Van Der Memes — reminds me of Eric Conveys an Emotion #

Daytum released for iPhone — free and lovely (via) #

The Best Cover Songs of 2010 — with MP3s for each #

Pogo's Joburg Jam — the first of his World Remix project #

Works that would been public domain this year under pre-1978 copyright law — as always, a depressing read #

JWT's 100 Things to Watch in 2011 — via Fred Wilson, who has a good eye for this kind of thing (via) #

Metafilter's Year in 2010 Infographic — the community wrote 86 million words last year, over 400 Moby Dicks (via) #

Pogo remixes the real world — I love his work and this project sounds brilliant #