Zeldman on posthumous hosting and the fragility of the creative web — maybe a nonprofit focused on archiving individual authors? Archive.org's wonderful, but it's darkweb #

Joseph Ducreux, 18th century French artist turned 4chan meme — "I've acquired 99 predicaments, but a wench is not one of them" (via) #

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are engaged — that's a celebrity couple I can get behind #

The Sixty One undergoes major redesign — compare with the old version; some beautiful, risky decisions #

Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers — Wu Tang vocals with beats built from Beatles samples #

Lukas Ketner's retro style artwork for GET LAMP — from the artist behind the Panic Atari 2600 boxes #

New York Times to charge for frequent access next year — subscribers get unlimited access, everyone else can view a set number of articles per month #

Charting the Beatles — gorgeous work visualizing collaboration, song keys, work schedule by month, and more (via) #

General Larry Platt's "Pants on the Ground" — I can't get this out of my head, so you'll suffer too; the General was a crusader in the Atlanta civil rights movement #

Caterina Fake on participatory media — a rebuttal to Jaron Lanier's paranoid WSJ op-ed #

GameSetWatch's Best of the 2009 Demoscene — if you have a PC that can handle it, watch it real-time instead of the videos #

OK Go explains why their new YouTube video can't be embedded — a microcosm of the current state of the music industry (via) #

WSJ writer follows a man trying to rescue his family in Haiti — the story's being updated in real-time on Facebook #

Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK might have used Twitter — "I just became mayor of The Albany Jail on @foursquare!" #

ASCIImeo, Vimeo videos in text — the block mode is my favorite #

Visual timeline of Crayola color changes from 1903-2010 — Crayola's Law: "The number of colors doubles every 28 years" #

2010: Living in the Future — 1972 futurism for kids #

Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough — obscure NES gem I'd never heard of, the annotations are expertly done (via) #

Google Australia censors Encyclopedia Dramatica in search results — offending someone is a really low bar #

Oink founder cleared of fraud charges — still amazed he was pulling in over $200k in donations a year #

Acme Novelty Library in Chinese — beautiful, well-integrated translations (via) #

Nick Montfort on the origins of the word "Zork" — zork the fweep #

Retro Sabotage's Jumping  #

Dispersion of sound waves in ice sheets — when nature acts artificial #

Gordon, an open-source Flash runtime in Javascript — SWF v1 support only, with no sound or video naturally, but still (via) #

Google to stop censoring Chinese search results or close China office — they imply the Chinese government intercepted Gmail accounts of activists #

John Kricfalusi's 1998 illustrated letter to a young cartoonist — he's answering questions over on Reddit (via) #

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) #