My Holiday Party — designer Everett Hiller has fun with his holiday party photos (via) #

First-person remote-control helicopter tour of NYC — apparently legal under 400 feet for non-commercial use (via) #

Long Felix Salmon essay on the history and future of Gawker — serious inside baseball; Nick Denton explains the redesign, Anil says they're still blogs, play with it here #

Shop Vac — incredible fan-made kinetic typography for a Jonathan Coulton song #

Why is Scrooge McDuck in Germany named after a 7th-century Frankish king? — a Wikipedia deep dive #

Google tweaks algorithm in response to NYT DecorMyEyes story — negative user reviews now affect results #

Fast Company profiles Boing Boing — time to release another data dump so I can update my stats #

BitTorrent-based DNS to counter P2P domain seizures — creating a .p2p TLD, with free domains administered by OpenNIC #

Behind-the-scenes profile of recording Kanye West's new album — an alternate world in a Hawaiian recording studio (via) #

Deconstructing Gimme Shelter — or play all five at once for a chaotic remix #

Indie Game: The Movie team talks to Derek Yu about Spelunky — with the first video of the XBLA version #

Bygone Bureau's Best New Blogs of 2010 — great picks from Robin Sloan, Brandon Boyer, and more #

Ken Jennings' list of fake Walt Disneys — the diabolical dreamer archetype #

NYT covers an eyeglass retailer antagonizing customers for SEO — it would've been nice if they'd used rel="nofollow" on links to his site; update: they removed the links #

1993 NPR show on the future of the Internet — early live streaming experiment featuring Carl Malamud and Brewster Kahle (via) #

FoxTrot's Bill Amend guest-draws xkcd — "an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists" #

Hurt Locker creators sue lawyer who helped downloaders — they're trying to stop a lawyer who sold self-help forms for $10 each #

Erin McKean on "but-heads" — no offense, but I honestly hate to tell you this (via) #

Metafilter on the exposed identity of a fake sex blogger — "Alexa" referred sex workers to sleep with the man behind the blog #

Give Me Something To Read's Best of 2010 — great long-form essays culled from Instapaper users #

Mashup Breakdown — a better Girl Talk visualizer with three sources of sample metadata #

Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit — added to the supercuts list (via) #

Pixar's It Gets Better — have tissues ready #

CandyBar for the Atari 2600 found — Panic's retro Atari covers inspired an actual Atari 2600 game #

Boilerpipe — boilerplate text removal and fulltext extraction, open source or as a free API #

How 7,000 Twitter users balanced the budget — NYT crunches the results from their interactive budget puzzle #

flight404's real-time body distortion with Kinect — built with Cinder, a new framework for creative coding (via) #

Jonathan Koshi's Mexican sugar skulls — Pac-Man, Spy vs. Spy, Cthulhu, Lego, and more #

Glitch launches new website and trailer — ten kinds of madness; don't miss the faces of the giants #

NYT on teen distraction by social media — end of civilization, news at 11 #

Vanity Fair profiles a hotel detective's quest to find a serial rapist — tools: a telephone, video footage, Google, linked DNA databases, and obsession #

Nate Silver on the hidden costs of increased airport security — people may claim to feel safer, but it creates a culture of fear that impacts willingness to fly #

From Robocop, With Love — Peter Weller sends a photo to Detroit's newest crime fighter #

20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web — gorgeous HTML5 book by Google and Christoph Niemann #

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving — another gem from Hyperbole and a Half #

'T' Shirts  #

Real-time samples from Girl Talk's All Day — using data culled by Wikipedia users (via) #

Minecraft CPU map released — the first programmable CPU with embedded livestock #

The Theory of Hipster Relativity — or are they dilettantes? NY Mag published a great postmortem by n+1 #

Jimmy Fallon (as Neil Young) and Bruce Springsteen cover "Whip My Hair" — taking on Willow Smith's unavoidable hit (via) #

9eyes, a tumblelog of Google Street View photography — I linked to Jon Rafman's work last year, but he's been busy #

The World's Biggest Harry Potter Fan — levitating the camera was a nice touch #

Results of Wikipedia's fundraiser A/B banner testing — a personal photo and appeal was far more effective than alternatives #

IFComp 2010 results released — play the winner online #

Google Refine — awesome open-source desktop app for cleaning and filtering big datasets (via) #

PokerStars investigates a human that plays poker like a machine — a detailed Turing test including in-person observation (via) #

Facebook announces email support, social inbox — real-time, less structured, and much more social #

Girl Talk releases All Day — questionably licensed under Creative Commons; sample list, and mirrors at Sendspace and Mediafire #

"You Look Like Shit" — added to the supercuts list (via) #

Roundup of open-source Kinect hacks — my personal favorite, so far #