Metro Rules of Conduct — Flash game simulates the awkwardness of avoiding eye contact on public transit #

Fetal monitor lets baby twitter kick activity from the womb — the result ends up here (via) #

Michal Kosakowski's Just Like the Movies — the WTC attacks retold as a pastiche of scenes from hundreds of pre-9/11 movies (via) #

40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes — a good way to start every workday #

Is This Your Paper on Single Serving Sites? — academic essay on the trend, with a spreadsheet of 133 sites with their registration dates #

Library of Congress releases report on success of Flickr Commons — the project was pioneered by the brilliant George Oates, Flickr's lead designer who was laid off earlier today #

Bleed the World — flawless Band Aid parody #

Sol Sender on the evolution of the Obama '08 logo — the rejected logos are fascinating, especially the speech balloon (via) #

The Majesty of Colors — reminds me of I Wish I Were the Moon (via) #

Dennis Jerz on Google Maps' "Report a Concern" wording on Street View — also: saying "I'm sorry" is an implied admission of guilt, which is why CEOs never, ever say it #

WordPress 2.7 released — the one-click software upgrade and plugin browsing is just gorgeous #

Cartoon Particles — Disney characters deconstructed into component 3D parts (via) #

David Rosen's design tour of Knytt Stories — like his World of Goo tour, explains the graphical, audio, and gameplay decisions that make the game special (via) #

Image Evolution, evolve your own image with Javascript — a Canvas-based reimplementation of the Mona Lisa genetic programming hack #

Yahoo! closing Brickhouse by end of year — management would be better served firing themselves #

How the Perceptron music recommender weights its data sources — using mixtapes and Myspace top friends is clever; give it a try #

ATMachine's House of LucasArts and Sierra Oddities — including the comprehensive evolution of Indy game maps, Guybrush and Elaine, LeChuck, the LucasArts logo, and a rare Japanese Maniac Mansion #

Anil Dash on his night sleeping in the Guggenheim — ever since I read Basil E. Frankweiler, I've wanted to do this #

Popular Science magazine archives from 1872-2008 on Google Book Search — they've expanded into magazine archives, including Popular Mechanics, Mother Jones, Dwell, and New York #

Google's Native Client, run x86 apps in the browser — their open-source alternative to Java or Alchemy for Flash (via) #

Text Message Disaster — I'm only posting this so I can link to the parody (via) #

Things Bears Love — Overweight Hikers, Drunks, and Team Building Exercises #

8-Bit Jesus — holiday chiptunes inspired by NES games (via) #

Genetically evolving a car in real-time with Flash — here's one iteration after a few hours; the author discussed it on Reddit (via) #

How GoDaddy secretly profits from expired domains — they auction off popular expired domains, and quietly keep the rest for themselves #

Pulitzer Prize extended to online "newspapers," but not online "magazines" — the distinction is meaningless, but this is still a step in the right direction #

Blog comment spam on Mechanical Turk — what does it take to get rid of these idiots? #

Evolving the Mona Lisa — using only 50 randomly-sized translucent polygons (via) #

The Lonely Island's Jizz in My Pants on SNL — Jorma and Akiva finally appear on-screen in the first single off Incredibad, their debut album coming in February (via) #

Wikiscanner2 beta — Virgil's using a new technique for identifying more organizations and conflicts-of-interest (via) #

WSJ on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" on the Sundance Channel — I've been waiting for a show like this, about the love of music, my entire life #

POTOtoo, Pirates of the Amazon recreated as a Greasemonkey script — let's see Amazon try forcing these 60 lines of Javascript offline #

Kim Rugg's alphabetized newspaper front pages — meticulously compiled with a razor, steady hand, and plenty of patience (via) #

Amazon orders Amazon/Pirate Bay Firefox extension offline — what right does Amazon have to control how we browse their site? are they going after Greasemonkey next? #

World of Warcraft is more secure than your bank — they're selling RSA key fobs to secure accounts #

Merlin Mann announces his new Amazon blog — just buy the camera, already #

BetamaXmas, celebrate Christmas in December 1988 — my god, even the TV Guide is in real-time #

Ze Frank on ideas and doing stuff — don't get addicted to brain crack (via) #

Video bootleg of Elvis Costello and Clover's "My Aim Is True" reunion — I didn't realize anyone had shot video! here's the backstory of the benefit show #

Jason Santa Maria asks designers to share their first websites — hilarious entries in the comments, including Veerle and Cameron Moll #

Flickr adds videos to iPhone-optimized site — works flawlessly; related: their lessons learned building a site for the iPhone #

Curb This — it's the new Yakety Sax (via) #

Remi Gaillard does Mario Kart in real-life — from the prankster who did the Rocky recreation and street soccer videos (via) #

Evan Williams on what Blogger should do now — some sound Monday morning quarterbacking from its former cofounder #

The Onion: Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade For 26 Blocks — latest in a series of briefs, including Bush Passes Three-Pound Kidney Stone, Crocodile Bites Off Bush's Arm, and Bush Tumbles Wildly Down Washington Monument Staircase #

Tina Fey's pinball past — she provided voices for the 1997 game Medieval Madness #

AOL to shut down Ficlets fiction-writing community — the small but dedicated community's shattered by the news (via) #

Music and the Market, academic paper compares average BPM to stock prices — he finds that the beat variance seems to predict future market volatility (via) #

Rob Reger responds to the Emily Strange controversy — this comment sums it up nicely #

Surfing for Seniors, instructional VHS video from 1997 — only the first 3.5 minutes, sadly (via) #