NYT on Mark Allen and Machine Project at LACMA — one of the most interesting people I know gets a writeup of his most recent project #

MIDI Hero, Guitar Hero hack with a drum kit — the author later wired up his Roland V-Drums kit (via) #

Danah Boyd on Lori Drew's conviction in the Megan Meier suicide case — the lawsuit centered on technology, when the fact it happened online was incidental (via) #

Rogue ported to iPhone — get your 1980s dungeon crawling on #

New York Times' visualization of one year of NYC parking tickets — they had to file a FOIA request to get the data for the 9.9 million tickets #

Helvetireader, minimal Google Reader redesign with Greasemonkey — very sexy, though maybe a bit too minimal #

The L.A. Times data desk — all their research projects collected in one place, though some raw data dumps would be nice too (via) #

Rick Astley rickrolls the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade — quite possibly the widest instant exposure of an Internet meme ever #

Barack Obama's weekly address on YouTube — stylistic notes: his team's using the new widescreen format and comments are enabled #

Ed Piskor's Wizzywig #2 released — the perfect blend of autobiographical comics and geek subject matter; I bought both books, highly recommended #

The Time Machine, an interactive YouTube adventure — see also: Tube Adventures and its sequel, Samsung's Follow Your Instinct, and A Car's Life (via) #

Zoetrope, search and visualize the historical web — in-development tool creates a window into past versions of a page (via) #

Vinylscrobbler — packet sniffing Shazam to update Last.fm from analog sources (via) #

William Shatner responds to the new Star Trek film — funny, I thought it'd be more like this #

Fimoculous' List of Lists 2008 — as always, check back often; last year's had over 600 lists #

StateStats, find correlations between search queries and U.S. state characteristics — Myspace users are violent illiterates in warm climates, Gmail users are skinny and rich #

Fleet Foxes on La Blogotheque's Take-Away Shows — directed by Vincent Moon in an abandoned wing of the Grand Palais #

Processing hits 1.0 — seven years in the making, the artsy programming language leaves beta (via) #

Bad Hacks, a repository of vulgar ROM hacks — including Super Nazi Bros., Naked Metroid, and Zelda as erotic fanfic (via) #

Kottke on Shaq's first week on Twitter — I like that Shaq is following Not Shaq #

John Gruber on the iPhone's deprecation of "http://" — I'm a little surprised they didn't merge the search and location bar into a single field #

Twitter acquires Rael Dornfest — along with Values of n, which will be shutting down Sandy and Stikkit next month #

Autographed Zork first edition manual sells for $2,300 on eBay — from Brian Moriarty's personal collection, less than 100 copies were sold for the PDP-11 (via) #

Disney World's Haunted Mansion map in Counter-Strike Source — from the creator of the Van Gogh Starry Night map #

Doom ported to Flash 10 — built with Alchemy, which could bring a flood of PC emulators and ports (via) #

Feedback Army, cheap and quick usability testing built on Mechanical Turk — get 10 random people's feedback for $7 #

Esquire profile of Passage creator Jason Rohrer — touches on games-as-art and the lack of popular auteurs in gaming #

YouTube Live's archived highlights — some online were overthinking this, but I thought it was good fun; personal highlights: Julia Nunes, Bo Burnham, Mythbusters, Charlie the Unicorn, and DJ Mike Relm remixing memes #

Freddie Wong responds to the Bike Hero controversy — "What's up, viral marketing douchebags? I'm gonna show you punks how a real man plays Bike Hero on Expert!" #

Google's collaborative pixel art in Google Spreadsheets — they're even sharing the template and tips on making your own #

Perspectives, video interviews with all dialogue removed — um, uh, hmm #

Robbie Cooper's Immersion, heads-on video of kids playing video games — from the guy who made Alter Ego, the book of people with their online avatars #

Clive Thompson's long NYT feature on the the Netflix Prize and singular value decomposition — the same technique we used on Memeorandum Colors (via) #

Boston College to stop offering email accounts to new students — students come in with fully-formed online identities, so they'll just redirect to their existing email addresses (via) #

Pixel typography from the 16th century — from an Italian embroidery guide (via) #

19-year-old commits suicide live on Justin.tv — it should surprise nobody that he was egged on by 4chan, who always adore an hero #

"Bike Hero" video was Activision's viral marketing, as suspected — I still think it's great, but Derek disagrees; then again, I always assumed it was faked to some degree #

Kottke on Brian Battjer's I Keep A Diary — no joke, I just spent the last hour reading his photojournals of South Korea, Japan, Dubai, and NYC #

Star Trek theme played on a homebrew Wii theremin — here's how it works (via) #

Chicken Head Tracking — strangely hypnotic, other birds have the same ability (via) #

Torben Sko's experiments with camera-tracked head gestures in first-person games — he uses a simple webcam, FaceAPI, and the Half-Life 2 engine #

Cover Browser's collection of every TV Guide magazine cover — trivia: Macrovision sold TV Guide to an equity firm for $1.00 last month, less than the cost of a single issue #

Dr. Awesome game for iPhone lets you perform surgery on your friends — perfectly nailed as Qix meets Trauma Center, it imports names from your address book #

Metafilter on John Ziegler vs. Nate Silver (and David Foster Wallace) — great writeup of a perfectly terrible person's recent misadventures #

Google to shut down Lively next month — the most baffling of all Google products, this one is closing after less than six months #

Jack Handey's The Plan — it's foolproof (via) #

Snaptell, product lookup for the iPhone — like Shazam for product packaging, price comparison's coming soon #

Interactive augmented reality demo in Flash with Papervision — very quick with my iSight, I get much higher FPS than in the video (via) #

Very lucky kid on The Price is Right — still, nothing beats Daniel #

Space Invaders anime video produced for 30th anniversary — "All this time we've been... and all they wanted to do was... We're horrible people!" (via) #