Antarctic Fox – The log of Rachel and Kevin Fox’s trip to the Antarctic Peninsula.

Black Plague “Vampire Skull” Found in Venice – Creepier than something called a “vampire skull” has any right to be.

Why is the DOS path character “\”? – The answer’s from before my time, but I do remember the original reasons. It all stems from Microsoft’s relationship with IBM. For DOS 1.0, DOS only supported floppy disks.

Amazing Video Game Remake Wallpapers – High definition paintings of classic video game scenes. Make sure to click the ‘download’ link on the DA page to get the full version.

Geekhack – If you care what a Model M is, you should probably spend a few days on this forum.

Top 10 Incredible Recordings – The only recorded castrato, a russian exorcism, Jonestown, and more.

BBC Radio Labs: How we make websites – Fucking badass. If you make websites.

100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers – Don’t have an iPhone, but they look excellent on my blackberry.

Hardformat – Reaching for the sublime in music design.

The Design Disease – As someone who learned photoshop in between phone calls, I feel like I shouldn’t be allowed to relate to this. But I do.

Photoshop: B.U.S.E.Y. – BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY BUSEY

List of 2008 End-Of-Year Lists – Just so you can be sure you didn’t miss anything.

Best 50 Astronomy Pictures of 2008 – The M104 Hubble Remix is stunning.

Fuck You, Penguin – A blog where cute animals get told what’s what.

Auditorium – Extremely cool audio/visual puzzle game. Move the flow around to make music happen.

A Minimalist’s Guide to Using Twitter – When I first signed up for Twitter a few months ago, I followed a bunch of people I knew and was instantly fed with a stream of new “tweets” from all the people I was following. I read through all the tweets, but the stream just kept coming. Then I learned the secret of Twitter: don’t try to keep up.

Snowflakes as you’ve never seen them before – These snowflake photos were taken by Kenneth Libbrecht of CalTech, using a specially-designed snowflake photomicroscope.

Extra Hyper Korg DS-10 performance – Ridge Racer composer Nobuyoshi Sano, Black Mages member Michio Okamiya, and Chrono Trigger composer Yasunori Mitsuda perform a live all-Korg set!

Hacked And Frayed Spy Flash Drive – A little piece of hacker genius.

70 Beautiful Dual-Screen Desktop Wallpapers – Some really gorgeous work here, if you ignore the ‘gaming’ section.