The Kickstarter Awards: Best in Show — fourth and final installment, highlighting the best of Kickstarter so far #

Al Gore requests a typeface tweak — the VP has an eye for type usability (via) #

What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google — the answers match up nicely (via) #

Maciej Ceglowski on six months of Pinboard — by charging a small fee, he's earned enough to work on it full-time (via) #

100 Games Cupcakes — here they all are in one image (via) #

Gumby creator Art Clokey dies — don't miss Gumbasia, his pioneering Claymation film from 1953 that predated Gumby #

Python script takes a webcam snapshot when code commits fail — and posts your frustrated face to Twitter #

Russell Davies on RIG's dataviz Christmas ornaments — the more Twitter followers, the larger the snowman's head #

Newspaper Club announces prices for custom-printed papers — UK-only for now, includes delivery; examples: Last.fm's newspaper charts and Rev. Dan Catt's photo paper #

Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books — from the creator of temporary.cc, a book that burns itself when opened and another that can't be closed (via) #

Two Gentlemen of Lebowski — Wherefore the nihilist weeps and cries for 'fair'? #

The Third & The Seventh — a nicely shot, but otherwise unexciting short film, until you realize it's 100% CGI #

Roger Ebert on losing the ability to eat, drink, and speak — his journal's been consistently great lately #

Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network — "call it a space cam" #

Boing Boing's guide to the IGF 2010 finalists — videos and descriptions for all 20 #

Project 880, summary of James Cameron's original Avatar treatment — more backstory, new characters, and more depth #

Vintage Ad Browser — Philipp Lenssen collected and categorized over 120,000 images from online and offline sources #

The Kickstarter Awards, Part 1 — highlighting the most successful, popular, and prolific projects from our first eight months #

Metafilter community on the tragic death of Brad Graham — I still can't believe he's gone #

Rex's 30 Best Blogs of 2009 — thoughtful list following some interesting trends #

Volker Shreiner's Counter, short film from 2004 — found footage from classic films counts down from 266, mostly using door numbers (via) #

One Frame of Fame — crowdsourced music video, judged by Mechanical Turk and rendered with new frames hourly #

15,740 self-proclaimed social media gurus on Twitter — gurus, ninjas, and experts (via) #

Daniel Raffel's favorite new geek projects of 2009 — an unusually great list (via) #

Spam Assassin scores any email in 2010 as spammy — they hardcoded a regex for 2010-2099 as "grossly in the future" #

Adam Parrish on The Joking Computer — a bot that can make up bad puns #

Anil Dash on the perceived vs. actual value of Twitter's suggested user list — most new users aren't active or engaged, so clickthroughs and replies don't change with the influx #

Demo of Proswitcher, multitasking for jailbroken iPhones — the only thing that makes me jealous of the Pre (via) #

DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2009 — mashing up Billboard's Top 25 of 2009 into a completely new song #

PVRBlog's The Decade of DVR — Matt Haughey gets some help from web superstars for his last post before the transition #

Tuper Tario Tros. — Mario meets Tetris mashup, with a challenging ending #

Robin Sloan's Annabel Scheme — brilliant novella about quantum computing and the digital occult #

Slate on Sweden's Christmas Eve tradition of watching a Disney clip show — in 1997, over half the country watched the animated special, first aired in 1958 (via) #

CrowdsMachine — find popular links across all your feeds, and surface a new feed of the results #

Reverse engineering Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton — someone do DJ Shadow and the Avalanches next! #

Alma — haunting short film by a Pixar animator, only viewable for a short time (via) #

4chan founder to speak at TED — I fully expect Anonymous to show up #

Yahoo! to close MyBlogLog next month — what a waste #

Fimoculous's List of Lists 2009 — related: Kottke's best of the decade lists #

Jonathan Zittrain's "Minds for Sale" — great talk on crowdsourcing and the fine line between volunteering and exploitation #

Metaplace closing January 1 — horrible shutdown procedure: ten days' notice during the holidays to save everything manually #

Wired on the Duke Nukem Forever saga — like the Phantom Menace, the lack of constraints can lead to disaster #

HP's face-tracking software is racist — in their official response, they blame "insufficient foreground lighting" (via) #

Every day the same dream — think outside the box (via) #

Ed Piskor releases Wizzywig Volume 1 and 2 for free download — fictional comic history about the hacking/phreaking scene; I bought both and am anxiously awaiting Volume 3 (via) #

Chris Dixon's anatomy of a bad search result — great followup to Paul Kedrosky's original post about trouble in the Google ecosystem #

Multiplayer Basketball — even a simple basketball game becomes compelling with multiple realtime players #

_why's Estate — an archive of artist/coder _why the lucky stiff's known works (via) #

Swedish Pirate Party launches public Etherpad service — using the newly open-sourced code base #

Pomplamoose, "Always in the Season" — a new Christmas carol, with Anton Patzner on violin and Zoe Keating on cello #