DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" — mashing up the Billboard top 25 for 2007 (via) #

Alison Jackson's Confidential photo art exhibit — using celebrity doubles to recreate paparazzi shots that never existed #

Yahoo! Picks of the Week closes after 12 years — they've maintained the same inoffensive tone since 1995, but it seemed to get better in the last year #

Valve now selling gorgeous Portal shirts — game-related t-shirts that don't make you look nerdy (via) #

Branscome International's cringe-inducing Pixar knockoffs — don't miss the trailers for Ratatoing and The Little Cars (via) #

Kottke posts his Best Links for 2007 — still the best link blogger around #

Best freeware games of 2007 — quirky independent games, though almost entirely PC only (via) #

Fret Killer, the mysterious YouTube acoustic guitarist — in every video, the commenters repeatedly try to identify this relentlessly anonymous performer (via) #

Christmas wishbook catalogs on Flickr — you'll shoot your eye out! happy new year, everyone #

David Cross on accepting the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" role — I love Patton Oswalt too, but aren't we past accusing people of selling out yet? (via) #

Apple Keynote Index Fund — Matt Haughey finds out the returns for day trading AAPL during the last ten keynotes #

Steal This Film II released — free documentary about history of piracy interviews Pirate Bay, Mininova, EFF, MPAA, and others (via) #

Protagonize, community-driven hypertext fiction — reminds me of Gav and Peloso's interactive story from 1995; Wikipedia has more on the genre (via) #

Danah Boyd on Pew's report on teen use of social media — some interesting trends, including the bits about low-income blogging #

Matt Webb wraps up 2007 — massive brain dump that extends beyond tech into sociology, ecology, marketing, drugs, and genetics #

New Year's Eve invitations found on Myspace — "Dress and drive to impress!" #

Duelity — video art project retells the biblical and scientific creation stories, with the prose and tone reversed #

Five Short Video Game Industry Keynotes — funny satire of conference cliches (via) #

Philipp Lenssen's overview of Backrub, Google's precursor — some good Archive.org dumpster diving #

Tristan's tech support hell with Palm customer support — the support tech insisted she was Palm's CEO; contrast with Apple's personal touch #

Snarkout's history of "White Christmas" — after a full year since his last post, Steve returns with a whirlwind history from Holiday Inn to Black Christmas; merry xmas, everybody! #

IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR — memeorific and sacrilicious "tale of three nerds turning a nativity scene into a LARP battle"; don't miss the video responses (via) #

The Last Man on Earth, full-length film on Archive.org — 1964 adaptation of Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" starring Vincent Price as Dr. Will Smith #

Happy <Holiday Name Here> — Christmas card from Aperture Science and the Portal team (via) #

I Waterboard! — Straight Dope member waterboards himself and writes about the experience (via) #

Snowclone.pl, Perl script to query snowclone variations from Google — used often here, it also supports searching Yahoo, Live.com, Google Groups, Google Blog Search, and Gigablast #

Fake Steve Jobs pranks bloggers with Apple shutdown drama — update: the references to Tony Clifton and Kaufman are a sly confession #

Tracking Digg's most unpopular comments — it's a troll's paradise #

Hacking an NYC taxi's backseat kiosk — these things are so irritating, it's nice to see someone find a good use for them #

The Jingler — turns any MP3 into Christmas music with beat-matched sleigh and jingle bells (and Santa!) (via) #

Meta 419 Scam — pretends to reach out to victims of Nigerian scams, with a convenient $1M payment (via) #

I Am Legend DVD screener leaked to BitTorrent — there should be a special name for this time of year, when Oscar screeners flood the net #

xkcd's Randall Munroe speaks at Google — including an appearance by Donald Knuth and an impromptu stick figure Google logo #

Newspaper accidentally identifies thief on the front page — photos from two different stories showed the same man painting a storefront and stealing a wallet #

On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters — the accompanying Flickr pool (via) #

Rock Band: What you really sound like — stop harshing my delusion (via) #

Deciding the Long Bet winner for weblogs vs. the New York Times in Google — Rogers Cadenhead finds that while blogs beat the NYT, Wikipedia crushed them both (via) #

Colin's Bear Animation — "thanks for nothing" #

My exclusive coverage of BravoNation, Yahoo! Brickhouse's newest launch — take that, Arrington! #

Best Blogs of 2007 that You Maybe Aren't Reading — Rex's brilliantly-curated list of new, underrated blogs #

Flash: How is babby formed? — apparently pretty old, but made me laugh; the original thread on Yahoo! Answers #

NYC's area/code reveals they created Chain Factor — a wonderfully addictive Flash game, it also acted as a trailhead for a month-long ARG for CBS's Numb3rs (via) #

Long list of 2008's anticipated films — I'm most excited about Benjamin Buttons, The Box, Be Kind Rewind, Where the Wild Things Are, and Wall-E (via) #

GOOG-411 created to train speech-to-text software — running the free service to build up a corpus of voices? neat idea, but seems inefficient #

Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos — they include some fan-made videos and this charming cover from a high school trio #

Ryan Barrett's thoughts on SimpleDB — still catching up from my NYC trip, this was the best writeup I've seen so far #

Anil Dash on Google and the Theory of Mind — I had dinner with Anil on my first night in NYC last week, and he made me eat pig tails and cow glands; yum! #

Isometric pixel map of Hong Kong — insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level (via) #

Raiding the abandoned Sun Microsystems building — linked from a thread in this wonderful UK urban exploration forum (via) #

Ev's guide to evaluating new product ideas — for me, "personally compelling" is the only one that matters, since I can't build something I won't use myself #