Browser Pong — only works in modern browsers, uses HTML5 audio #

Matt Haughey defends the use of Twitter during personal tragedy — I wonder how much of the criticism stems from perceptions of Twitter as frivolous #

70-minute video review of the Phantom Menace — more than half the length of the film itself #

Dresden Codak's Lantern Season — every one of Aaron Diaz's comics are fantastic; don't miss The Sleepwalkers and Fabulous Prizes (via) #

Michael Johansson's obsessive-compulsive sculpture — packing feats and ordinary objects reassembled to look like model toys #

Kleptones to release new album for free on January 1 at midnight — so exciting; I still think Night at the Hip-Hopera is the best mashup album ever #

Google Maps India evolves driving directions to use local landmarks — street names are often unknown, so they just describe what you'll pass by #

Reddit community forms largest Secret Santa gift exchange ever — 4,500 members spent $115k on gifts; here's an interview with the founder #

Mag+, digital magazine UI design concept — the most thoughtful and realistic I've seen #

OK To Go — a collage of hyperspace scenes in film (via) #

Facebook Data team releases study on user ethnicity — they compare it to the demographics of the Internet and United States #

Google Browser Size — this would be great for Analytics, to view your community's actual screen sizes #

Let's Enhance — montage of zoom in and enhance scenes; I blame Ridley Scott (via) #

Plotter Drawings from the 1960s — from the Digital Art Museum (via) #

Desaturated Santa — she should hang out with pixelated girl and polygon guy #

Nifflas releases Saira — PC exploration game, like the Knytt series with a more elaborate storyline and gameplay #

Craigslist unblocks Yahoo! Pipes — good to hear, thanks Jeremy #

Colbert joins Alicia Keys on New York State of Mind — "I own this town from 41st to 47th" #

The LOST Underground Art Show — from the gallery that started Crazy 4 Cult 3-D #

Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins of "Friendster" Civilization — they were acquired last week for $26M by a Malaysian company; the pre-IPO Google offer could've been worth $1B today (via) #

Brandon Boyer's top 10 indie and iPhone games of 2009 — my top 10 would be virtually identical; I haven't played Saira yet, but soon #

Bygone Bureau on the best new blogs of 2009 — they asked several people, including me, for our favorites #

Capitol Records sues Vimeo over lip dubs — mind-numbingly stupid, the videos are free viral ads for their catalog; related: ASCAP demanding fees for Guitar Hero parties #

How MC Frontalot quit smoking with Dungeons & Dragons — roll a D20 saving throw whenever the GM tries to poison you (i.e. when you feel like smoking) (via) #

Todd McHatton's Christmas Songs — my brother-in-law's free holiday EP, for fans of Van Dyke Parks and Nilsson #

Christmas Light Hero — former Disney Imagineer wires his house to play "Cliffs of Dover," with a Wii and 21,268 lights (via) #

Health insurers paying Facebook gamers virtual currency to oppose health care reform — strangely, the writer quotes a Gmail error as an official response (via) #

Nelson Boles' "This one time…" — otherworldly hand-drawn animation; mood feels like Kevin Huizenga meets Grickle #

Gina Trapani on Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the iPhone — "30 years after VisiCalc shipped: Another app from me that starts out on Apple hardware" #

Matt Haughey selling PVRBlog.com on eBay — 180,000 RSS subscribers, no reserve! #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2009 winners announced — several are playable online, but not the winner #

Teux Deux — elegantly-designed to-do list by Swiss Miss and Fictive Kin (via) #

SMBC on the future of generational prejudice  #

Super Pork and Beans All-Stars — fanmade megamontage of ten years of web memes #

GET LAMP now available for preorder for 25% off until December 31 — an unbelievable deal, the text adventure documentary will be released on two DVDs in March #

Brandon Boyer's top 10 console/handheld games of the year — skewing heavily towards the innovative, quirky, and otherwise underappreciated #

NYT's 9th Annual Year in Ideas — Kickstarter made the cut! #

Kotaku profiles a young mom addicted to Xbox achievements — she's addicted to grinding through terrible games for the ranking #

TW1TT3R ART — ASCII art in 140 characters (via) #

Jason Louv argues that 4chan is the future of human consciousness — a dystopic take, but there's some truth in here, especially related to attention #

The Web Is Large — very funny mashup of tech digerati quotes out of context #

Facebook's new privacy controls default to publicly viewable — expect a large-scale userbase freakout and real-world repercussions #

Pixeljam's Mountain Maniac — it's like an angry, bearded pachinko for the Atari 2600 #

Norman Rockwell's photographic inspiration — I never knew his illustrations were drawn from staged photos (via) #

The Manhattan Tongue Project — funny, these look older than 1998 to me #

"Mysterious letters" flood Pennsylvania town — the art project frightened some residents, reminiscent of Boston and Ohio #

Panic's lost applications for the Atari 2600 — incredible retro artwork and game boxes; I've seen these in person and they're ridiculously accurate #

Target point-of-sale system uses game mechanics to speed checkout times — cashiers have informal speed contests and sometimes cheat using a "suspend" function (via) #

SiON, Flash 10 software synthesizer — chippy music and sound effects without samples, uses MML for describing music; try it out here (via) #

Google Chrome launches Mac/Linux betas and support for extensions — how long before an ad blocker tops the charts? #