Christian Swinehart's epic Choose Your Own Adventure visualizations — everything here is amazing, from the animations to the playable visualization of Meretzky's Zork: The Cavern of Doom #

Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels' Generous Offer — like the Two of Us short film, Beatles alternate-history fiction inspired by this SNL sketch #

Typekit launches — huge embeddable font collection, reasonably priced, and very well executed #

The Big Pictr — Flickr photos in the style of The Big Picture (via) #

Twitter's new Trends API will use Yahoo's WOE for locations — also used by Flickr, this cements the CC-licensed WOE data as the web's placename database (via) #

The Beatles Never Broke Up — mashup of Beatles solo albums with a backstory; related: Stephen Baxter's short story, The Twelfth Album (via) #

Paul Rogers draws Name That Movie — "Six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars" (via) #

NYT on confusion over how Kiva loans work — nonprofits carefully balancing effective marketing and donor expectations #

Microsoft COFEE, digital forensics tool for police, leaks online — available where you'd expect; sounds like common Windows network utilities with a simple interface #

NYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics — 48.5% of young black men without a high school degree; 3.6% of college-educated white women over 25 #

Another World level ported to Javascript — in other emulation news, a NES and Gameboy emulator in JS and SNES9x ported to Flash (via) #

Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN — powered by Viewtronics, Peter Nitsch's gorgeous new Flash 10 ANSI viewer (via) #

Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design — one of my favorite geeks joins one of my favorite companies #

Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use — huge announcement, along with the recent free release of Unity Indie #

The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes — Kai's Power Tools in real-life (via) #

Preview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper — as expected, looks incredibly great (via) #

The Grant-Pattishall Award — congrats, Kellan! (via) #

Birdhouse for Your Soul — Greg Knauss finds one small piece of the historical web #

Google open-sources Closure Tools — JS compiler, along with Google's huge widget library (via) #

Video montage of actors speaking the movie's title — great comments with some missed opportunities; "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to The Taxi Driver?" #

The Morning News' Cloud of Atlases — impossible to guess, but look at all the pretty colors #

American Airlines fires UX designer for explaining why their UX isn't great — a lapse of judgment from both American Airlines and an employee who cared too much #

Overheating, photo series of gadgets thrown through walls — from issue 6 of Amusement, the incredible French gaming culture magazine (via) #

Ricardo Autobahn's The Golden Age of Video — insane pop culture video mashup #

The Last Days of Gourmet — sad photo series, reminds me of the dot-com carnage photos #

Put This On — first episode of Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor's Kickstarter-funded video series on clothing #

Jono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license — looks fantastic and worth buying (via) #

Eric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume — incredibly creepy, like videogames leaking into the real world (via) #

Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element — told through annotated conversations from 1993 (via) #

Every vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page — I wonder which edits managed to stay in the longest without detection #

Mike Pusateri's Halloween costume data collection — for the fifth year, he's collected every costume name; this year, "nothing" spiked to #2 #

XKCD's movie narrative charts — here's a more serious attempt at Primer's timeline #

GameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix — extremely minimalist interpretations of 12 different games #

Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat — it measures your smile and stabs you if you're not smiling sufficiently (via) #

Auto Tune de Nieuws — needs an angry Dutch gorilla #

Facebook prank memorializes living person — the Facebook team should allow an email veto, or at least require better documentation (via) #

2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup — don't miss the breakdown by OS and country (via) #

FreeForm's short film on the Open Internet — impressive set of interviewees, directed by Jesse Dylan of Yes We Can fame #

Using Flickr as a paintbrush — coloring overhead maps based on the dominant colors of photos taken on the ground (via) #

Football Hero, three-story-tall Guitar Hero controlled with soccer balls — they used pressure pads with Arduino boards wired up to Frets on Fire (via) #

Chris Ware's Halloween cover and comic for the New Yorker — the masks that grown-ups wear #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2009 — 14 of the 24 nominees are playable online; Emily Short has a list of reviewers, as well as her own #

John Resig on the serious spam issues with Google Groups lists — if you want to know which areas of big companies are being ignore, watch for spam taking over #

Amazon launches Relational Database Service — MySQL 5.1 with automated backups #

Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer's "A Piece of My Mind" — new to me, love the sound; if you like that, try his chap-hop medley (via) #

Graphic history of newspaper circulations from 1990-2009 — related: the Christian Science Monitor is finding success after killing their print edition (via) #

Facebook games analyzed by an MMO player — interesting, though cynical, perspective of the underlying mechanics #

Playing guitar-less Guitar Hero with a muscle-computer interface — they should add a heart monitor that triggers star power when things get intense #

Google's Social Search experiment goes live in Labs — a little module with content from your Reader subscriptions and Gmail contacts #

Brandon Boyer's feature on Machinarium's concept artwork — if you haven't already, buy it for PC, Mac or Linux #