New HD videos of Noby Noby Boy gameplay footage — try the "Download" link if the stream isn't working; related: Phat Knits #

Most Emailed News — aggregating popular articles from major newspapers and magazines (via) #

13-year old Guitar Hero phenom's flawless win on "Devil Went Down to Georgia" — the most impressive GH video I've ever seen; he won the Guinness record in May (via) #

Evolution of the WordPress interface from 2003-2008 — I'd love to see the same thing for Movable Type #

MTV greenlights CollegeHumor TV show — rumored back in February, sounds like CHTV stretched into a full show #

James Surowiecki on why newspapers are hurting — "We want access to everything, we want it now, and we want it for free." (via) #

Twelve Days of EFF — animated tribute to the EFF's amazing work this year #

Chris Han's Love Songs, mashup of 33 songs with "love" in the title — watching the fullscreen output from Ableton Live is strangely hypnotic (via) #

Flickr designer George Oates on her insane layoff from Yahoo! — she was in Taipei when she got the call; her last Flickr blog post about The Commons was just posted yesterday (via) #

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes — documentary about his obsessive research, now archived at the University of the Arts London #

Siam Waxy — I think I should change my logo #

1UP's exclusive preview of Noby Noby Boy, new game by Katamari Damacy creator — Wired has more screenshots, mostly taken from the adorable official site #

MusicBox, mapping and visualizing music collections — the demo video gives a great overview of the software, created for her thesis at MIT (via) #

Parry Gripp's Young Girl Talking About Herself — Nerf Herder's lead singer is making minute-long pop gems inspired by YouTube culture (via) #

The BennyHillifier — add "Yakety Sax" to any YouTube video (via) #

People who inspired pop songs — the Metafilter thread mentions more, including Dave Couiler #

Antville's Best Music Videos of 2008 — the best music video community nominates their picks for their yearly awards #

Snowstorm, customizable Javascript snow for your website — breakable Christmas lights, too #

I Love Katamari comes to the iPhone — very slow once the ball gets big, but how could I not buy this? #

New York Times' Year in Ideas 2008 — love the selections, not fond of the un-weblike layout that's hard to link to #

Rara Racer, meta racing game in the form of a YouTube playthrough — very clever, the narration reminds me of Night of the Cephalapods #

Parkour in the 1930s — from Gizmo!, a 1977 documentary about oddball inventions (via) #

Chef, an esoteric programming language where source resembles recipes — try the Hello World Souffle, discussed in Nick Montfort and Michael Mateas' paper on weird languages and code aesthetics (via) #

Jeff Atwood on Swoopo, the most evil shopping site ever — it's a money-making machine, preying on hope and desperation #

RoboCop Rap — you down with OCP? (via) #

Jessica Delfino's I Wanna Be Famous — old, but new to me (via) #

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) #