Pretty Loaded, an archive of Flash preloaders — "strange, this site never finishes loading" (via) #

New York Mag on the new programmer-journalist movement at the New York Times — the NYT seems like the only paper that's innovating like a high-tech startup #

The Evolution of Dance 2 — like the New Numa and Hamsterdance 2, you can't recapture the magic #

Commercials appear on YouTube's most viewed list — since the strangeness last year, they've started moving to a broader Most Popular algorithm #

Japanese live-action recreation of Super Mario Bros. — from the same show that brought us Matrix Ping Pong (via) #

Google responds to the "boiling water" energy usage report — they claim 1,000 Google searches produces as much CO2 as an average car driving 0.6 miles #

Globulous goes free — one of my favorite multiplayer distractions drops the restrictions for free players #

Color Blind Gamer — like 8% of all white males, I'm red-green colorblind and encounter these accessibility issues often #

Bastard Tetris in Flash — good luck getting even a single row #

The Remnants, post-apocalyptic web comedy featuring Ze Frank — unfortunately, they only made the pilot #

Desert Bus reborn as a 4k Java app — though it doesn't tow you back to the start if you veer off the road, like the original #

Google discusses their new favicon — I like the student-submitted one much better #

Lawrence Lessig on the Colbert Report — it was already remixed into a song (via) #

Rockman 2 Neta, hack to fight every Mega Man 2 boss at once — amazingly, it's beatable; inspired by The Last Days of Dr. Wily? #

Runnin' with the Songsmith — Microsoft, meet Diamond Dave #

11-year-old Steve Martin appeared in Disneyland Dream, 1956 home movie — the vintage video was the first home movie named to the National Film Registry #

Microsoft Songsmith — a great idea marred by a huge lapse of judgment by the dev team, who act in the promo video (via) #

Gravity Bone, surreal spy novella as a free indie FPS game — if you have a PC, you need to try this; it's only a ten-minute time commitment, but so worth it (via) #

Burger King asks users to delete 10 Facebook friends for a free Whopper — over 10,600 people have been unfriended so far (via) #

Amy Bennett's oil paintings inspired by scale models — more on her site, including the story behind the work #

Kottke's Best Links of 2008 — somehow, I missed several of these; every link is worth reading #

NYT launches Congress API — I really hope there's a contingency plan to keep this amazing work online in case things go bad #

Amazon customer uploads own photos to Customer Images — I wonder if Thinkgeek has this problem with Customer Action Shots #

The Dial-Up Kid — comedy at 9600 bps #

Autonomous Katamari — how long will it take the Prince to roll up a room with random paths and an Arduino? #

Tumbarumba, short-fiction anthology as a Firefox plugin — the screencast explains how the plugin subtly changes the pages you read (via) #

Google blocks other search engines from indexing LIFE photo archive — the images are free for personal, non-commercial use, so I'm confused why Google agreed to restrict them in this way #

Crayon Physics Deluxe finally released today! — the final trailer shows how far last year's IGF grand prize winner has come; related: the iPhone version #

Trailer for Objectified, a documentary about modern industrial design — Gary Hustwit's followup to Helvetica (via) #

Independent Games Festival 2009 finalists announced — looking forward to Blueberry Garden and Night Game #

Livejournal's engineering and support staff laid off? — looks like a job for the Archive Team #

NYT profiles R, a powerful language for stats computing and infoviz — Brendan says it's "both brilliant and insanely quirky," which sounds about right #

Twitter hacker explains how he compromised celebrity accounts — just like yesterday's MacRumorsLive hack, a weak dictionary password was to blame #

The Perils of Zero-Gravity Videography — Matt Harding discovers hard drive-based camcorders don't work in zero-gravity (via) #

Screenshot: 4chan hacks MacRumorsLive during Apple keynote — the 4chan thread shows how they found the admin interface, password hashes, and finally cracked a user's password #

xkcd's Guide to Converting to Metric — even Liberia and Myanmar are mostly metric, compared to the U.S. #

Crowdsourcing an Ethical Dilemma — Dolores Labs uses Mechanical Turk to answer the Trolley Problem #

Stamen's Mike Migurski on extreme programming vs. interaction design — the linked interview is great #

Jason Scott on the closure of AOL's online communities — like physical evictions, there need to be laws protecting community data in the event of closure #

JPG Magazine to stop publishing, turn off website — with only three days notice; here's the response from Derek and the JPG community #

Wikipedia over DNS — loony hack serves summaries of Wikipedia articles; also available as JSON and JS #

Leap year bug caused every 30GB Zune to crash at 2am this morning — as strange as the Android bug that ran every keystroke as root #

Metafilter's exhaustive tour of the early origins of Adult Swim — the Cartoon Network breathed new life into old cartoons, while constantly trying to find the next big thing #

Infochimps' massive scrape of Twitter's friend network — Twitter gave their blessing on sharing the 56-million records, which includes 10M tweets and 220k hashtags #

The Lonely Island's We Like Sportz — the sequel to Just 2 Guyz #

Niall Kennedy documents the undocumented Google Reader API — whoops, this was three years ago; here's an updated version #

Sakurako Shimizu's Waveform Jewelry — the "I Do" wedding band and Atari chip ring are cute, too #

Fimoculous' 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 — an incredibly well-researched list, with related recommendations for every entry #

DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2008 — mashing up the top 25 singles of the year into a single song and video #

Twit 4 Dead, four Twitter bots fight zombies in real-time — watch their collected activity here #