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 #

Charlie Stross's Reasons to be Cheerful — a brief look back at the 2000s #

Clay Shirky on Wikileaks and the globalization of journalism — even Shirky's "half-formed" thoughts are essential reading #

The Last Roll of Kodachrome Produced — Dwayne's Photo in Kansas developed the final rolls (via) #

Canabalt goes open-source — the game engine's free under MIT license, art and sound copyrighted #

Windows XP simulation recreated in LittleBigPlanet 2 beta — the BSOD is a nice touch (via) #

The Joy of Stats, hour-long BBC doc on infoviz — hosted by Gapminder's Hans Rosling, featuring Stamen, David McCandless, Peter Norvig, and Sep Kamvar (via) #

HaikuLeaks, cablegate poetry — automated with HaikuFinder and this Cablegate parser (via) #

Amanda Palmer's Labyrinth with Sock Puppets — featuring Neil Gaiman as David Bowie With A Mullet #

The Senate in Pixels — also: The Presidents, The Supreme Court, The Beatles, Indiana Jones, and Hitchcock films (via) #

Andrew Sorenson's Variations on a Christmas Theme — made with Impromptu, a Scheme-based language for live coding performances; more examples (via) #

4chan sex survey responses — not exactly scientific, but still a fun read (via) #

Yahoo!locaust — devastating critique of Yahoo from a digital archivist's perspective (via) #

Legend of Zelda prototype found and ripped — that early Game Over music is creeping me out (via) #

Books of Adam — for fans of funny, wordy autobiographical comics, a la Hyperbole and a Half #

Leaky World — also: Uncle Sam vs. Wikileaks, The Wikileaks Game, and Wikileaks: The Game #

IndieGames' Top 10 Indie Games of 2010 — great list with some obscure picks #

Metafilter on Starship Titanic — don't miss the long comment by Yoz about the remarkable secret role-playing community, still alive after 13 years (via) #

Human Drum Machine, interactive YouTube video — also, a YouTube piano #

Pwned by the Owner — how Zoz recovered his stolen Mac, across the country two years later (via) #

Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks and Cablegate — long, brilliant (via) #

Flight of the Navigator WebGL demo for Firefox 4 — stunning open standards demo with real-time Twitter/Flickr integration to show off beta 8, released today; video explanation #

Dueling Cameras — Noah Kalina and Adam Lisagor, locked in battle (via) #

Christopher Nolan's hand-written Inception timeline notes — don't miss the scanned interview with his brother #

Shaun Inman scratches an 8-bit itch — his Nintendo sound file player is now available on the App Store #

Hidden — awesome app for tracking lost or stolen Macs, free until January #

Jaron Lanier on Wikileaks — I haven't been a fan of his grumpy essays lately, but this was a thoughtful counterpoint #

Good One — a supercut of laughter in the movies (via) #

Jennifer 8. Lee on raw data, APIs, and the growth of "Little Brother" — part of Nieman Labs' predictions for journalism in 2011 #

Gawker CTO's memo to employees about the Gnosis hack — painful to read; short version: if you taunt 4chan, prepare for the worst #

Google Books Ngram Viewer — some good examples, like charting the presidents #