DIY Thanksgiving - Instructables has a load of somewhat humorous do-it-yourself projects for the Thanksgiving holiday, including a fractal pie and gravy fountain, as well as some really helpful meal planning tips. And don’t miss the interview with Christy Canida from Instructables over at WBUR.

DOOM - The hit video game finally comes to the web in a Flash 10 port built with Alchemy! It’s kind of slow but awesome nonetheless.

Error Level Analyser - Is a tiny app that allows you to quickly check an image to determine if it might was Photoshop’d or altered. Simple and free to download.

Every Video Format You Need to Know - Gizmodo runs down what you need to know about video codecs and formats. Great for anime freaks and hardcore movie downloaders.

How many Movies can you Name in Two Minutes - Sure, you’re a film junkie, but how many film titles can you type out in just two minutes. It’s not just a test of your typing speed, it’s a test of how many one-word film titles you can think up: Rambo, Saw, Taxi…

If You Liked This, Sure to Love That - The New York Times has an interesting article on the case of Napoleon Dynamite, which stumped the programmers who tried to improve Cinematch, Netflix’s “recommendation engine” for a million dollar prize. Great story, but long.

Incredibots - Build your own robots, play with them in an environment with great physics engine, and embed them in a widget on your website.

Permanently Delete Data - ReadWriteWeb discusses methods of permanently deleting data from a hard drive in order to protect your privacy.

There and Back Again - Blogger Aaron Brazell picks 10 blogs he thinks everybody should read, none of which are this one.

Username - A useful online utility that check the availability of a web handle on dozens of leading web services ranging from 12Seconds to Yahoo. It’s a great first stop when you’re ready to establish a new web identity.

Black Friday Deals - Mashable rounds-up the 10 Best Resources for finding great deals in the mall madness that follows Thanksgiving.

Courseware Links for Artists - ArtCareer.net has posted a directory of over a hundred links to college courses for burgeoning artists, including lectures on art history, photography, and video production.

IBM to Build “Thinking” Computers - With a government grant from DARPA, IBM is slated to begin the first phase of research on “cognitive computing,” essentially building computers that work like living brains.

Meteor over Edmonton - A police dash cam caught a few seconds of spectacular footage of the recent meteor that fell this week in Edmonton, Canada. Check out the preview of our eventual Armageddon.

Photoshop Text Effects - Photoshop Roadmap shares eighty ways to transform headers into works of art, then another thirty.

Pilot School - A collection of television series pilot scripts, including: Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, Hill Street Blues, The Sopranos, The West Wing, and The Wire.

Top 25 days in Computing History - Tech Central has put together a timeline of the events in the computer industry that changed the world, beginning with the day that Charles Babbage announced his design for his analytical engine.

The Turbaconducken - Consider this culinary treat for your next holiday meal. It’s a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon and otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken.

What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science? - Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at M.I.T. wonders why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one.

After Mac - Juan over at After Mac points the way to a high-res x-ray image of an Aluminum MacBook that would look pretty sweet as a desktop.

E = MC² - It took 103 years, but Einstein’s formula, first proposed in the paper “Does the inertia of a body depend upon its energy-content?”, has finally been corroborated.

Let me Google that for You - Could this be my new favorite web service? The survey says yes! Just type is an appropriately sardonic query and this page will return a link to an animation demonstrating just how to use Google. It’s a great visual aid when you get an itch to answer those idiotic forum questions.

The Plan - The New York publishes Jack Handey’s plan for a really great bank heist. Unfortunately, the plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen…

Poladroid - A free app for Macs that lets you drag an image onto the Polaroid camera at the corner of your screen, then spits out an image that develops as you watch. Very Retro-chic.

Twiter Micro Round-Up:

30 Twitter Apps We Actually Use and 140 After That
Custom Twitter backgrounds, only $100 unless you’re popular
Has Twitter Become the Kleenex of Microblogging?
How Much Would You Pay For Twitter?
HOW NOT TO: Build Your Twitter Community
What Twitter Needs To Go Mainstream

WordPress 2.7 - Technosailer takes a look at ten things you need to know about this blog platform’s next incarnation, because (yet again) the admin interface has undergone dramatic alterations. Well complimented by these screenshots.

Zenbe - A new startup that brings social and collaborative features to your e-mail accounts, such as calendars, forum threads, Twitter feeds, and wiki features. I’m already using it, and it’s indispensable for group projects.

100 Awesome Ivy League Video Lectures - OnlineUniversities.com presents a directory of intellectually-stimulating college lectures on a wide range of topics ranging from astrophysics to women’s studies.

An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech - Sine-wave speech is a form of artificially degraded speech that demonstrates how perceptual insight impacts communication. Play the first recording and you’ll hear noise. Play the second recording, and suddenly the first one is understandable.

Meh - It’s official your favorite expression of indifference is now an actual word according to the Collins English Dictionary.

The Most Infamous Girl in the History of the Internet - Ever wonder who that girl who pops up every time you mistype a domain name is? Turns out her name’s Hannah. Just a strange FYI proving yet again that anonymity is dead.

Top 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Web Browsing - LifeHacker runs down ten tips for making the most of the bandwidth you’ve got by using software intelligently. It’s well complimented by this article on speeding up your hardware.

Ultra-Modern Underground Data Center - HotHardware tours an amazing facility that looks like the evil lair of a James Bond villain, complete with rough-hewn rock walls and fog.

How to Tell if you Cat is Plotting to Kill You - Matthew Inman of 9 Reasons not to date a T-Rex and 10 Reasons to Date a Unicorn reveals the truth behind your pet’s sinister nature.

How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci - WikiHow throws out a few tips on becoming a renaissance man in five steps: Curiosità, Dimostrazione, Sensazione, Sfumato, and Arte/scienza.

Napster Judge Calls for Major Copyright Reform - The Judge in trial that killed the original Napster is calling for an independent body to oversee copyright licensing and enforcement.

OLPC’s XO Laptop Released - Beginning November 17, Amazon.com will begin selling the much talked-about XO laptop for US$400. For each laptop bought, one will be donated.

The Origins of ‘Net shorthand - Computerworld examines just how old the most common Leetspeak terminology is.

The Top 10 Forecasts for 2009 and Beyond - Futurist magazine has selected the most thought-provoking predictions concerning science and technology for the coming year, beginning with the chilling but plausible projection that everything you say and do will be recorded by 2030.

The Top 10 Most Annoying Phrases - Wired shares Oxford Researchers’ picks, and surprisingly, neither “Lindsey Lohan” nor “Paris Hilton” made the list, even though both trigger my gag reflex.

DeadlyComputer.com suggests a symbolic framework for the characters of Gilligan’s Island.

Deskography is a site where you can Share Photos of your Desk and check out others peoples’ desks.

Dr. Dobb’s Portal shares a tutorial on Building Your Own Web Server on the cheap.

I could stare at this amazing five foot square zoomable Visualization of Wikipedia all day.

I don’t agree with every item, but I’m glad someone finally compiled it: 50 Skills Every Geek Should Have

It’s not geeky, but who could resist a live feed of A Box Full of Puppies?

Learn to build Leathal Weapons from Common Office Supplies at OfficeGuns.com.

Screw One Laptop Per Child. Long live One Velociraptor Per Child. It’s about social networking.

This Panoramic view of an Airbus A380 Cockpit is easily the coolest site I’ve seen all year.

Twing is a search engine that scopes out information from discussion forums across the net.

Could Windows 7 be Microsoft’s Linux killer? I doubt it, but here’s a cogent argument for yes.

Gizmodo takes a stab with 25 Features You Definitely Won’t See in Windows 7.

How manly is your blog? GenderAnalyzer attempts to determine a blog author’s gender.

If, like me, you’re fed up with registering for image hosting, try Simplebucket, a registration-free host.

LifeHacker performs a side-by-side comparison of Linux systems for Thumb Drives.

Stumpedia is a search engine that returns a handfull of useful results rather than Google’s torrent.

These 7 Important Fitness Tips For Web Workers probably also apply to shiftless gamers as well.

This visual comparison demonstrates the wide variety of Light Saber designs seen in Star Wars.

Zombie Wars is one of the most addictive flash games out there. Set a timer before you start.

Am I the only one out there that thinks that this whole Disaster Girl thing has been beaten to death?

Cracked looks at the 7 Most Impressive (And Depressing) Geek Collections.

Eric Florenzano and Eric Holscher share their favorite Gems from the Python programming language.

Found Magazine is an awesome website that publishes scraps of abandoned things, such as lists.

Freelance spells out the 15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have. Useful the planning stages of a site.

HongKiat explains Where the major Internet Pioneers got their Names.

Lists Galore has posted a gallery of Lunches too Awesome to Eat, mostly Bento boxes.

The Top 25 Funniest Google Ads Ever. Sell your soul on eBay.

When we, here in the United States, say that We’re Number One, what exactly do we mean?

13 Haunted Houses That Will Make You Wet Your Pants in 2007!

Become one of the web dead. Erase Your Online Identity in 10 Steps.

Build your own Steampunk Cane, inspired by the GirlGenius webcomic.

Did anyone known that Ctrl-Alt-Delete’s Tim Buckley is one of the Internet’s 10 Most Hated People?

Dvice has posted an awesome gallery of Amazing Star Wars Dollar Bill Origami, including the Millenium Falcon.

Effectize posted a fairly cool list: 89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Programmer in the World.

Five crazy real world Situations that began with World of Warcraft, most of them depressingly pathetic.

One costume sure to either clear out the room or bring out the perverts: PedoBear!

The Guardian has published a photo gallery on the History of the JetPack

This gallery of Amazing Jack-O-Lanterns is sure to leave you feeling inadequate, but it’s cool anyway.

Good to know: Times Online shares five simple things a day to stay sane.

If ever in need, you can make a small gift box out of two dollar bills folded just right.

Is it just me, or does this look like a parade of hardcore Doctor Girlfriend fans?

Not a tutorial, but a neat suggestion: use a coffee sack to jazz up your bulletin boards.

Print this list out and post it, Amen! 10 things your IT guy wants you to know.
Addendum: 0. Don’t make us tell you. Try rebooting your system first.

SuperPunch has a gallery of food suggestions for your Halloween party.

These 34 Geeky Pumpkins include film, game, and software designs, including several Darth Vaders.

Which of the Seven Stages of Halloween are you?

Wired has posted a gallery of Star Wars-themed Pumpkin Carvings.

With the economy in the can, it can’t hurt to know what to do if you are laid off from a tech job.

DCP looks the Strangest Internet Cafes Around the World.

Discover Magazine runs down 20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Robots

The Photos that Changed the World gallery includes some of the most beautiful and disturbing pictures ever taken.

Sit back, relax and let your fingers reveal the inner-workings of your phyche.

SlickDeals is a service that posts links to special deals and coupons from around the web each day.

Test your knowledge of the Simpsons at The Simpsons Trivia Contest.

Yeah, posting to the /b/ channel is kinda like this every single time.

Graphic designers take note: VandelayDesign lists 45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes.

The How-To Geek compares the seven largest online musics services to discover which is best.

Inspired by xkcd comic, YouTube has added audio previews for comments.

Jay Walker’s jaw-dropping library is the stuff of every geek’s wet dreams.

Learning databases but have the attention span of a 5 year-old? The Manga Guide to Databases may be for you.

Make your own Home Brewed Hard Cider for this year’s Halloween celebration.

The SFWeekly has a gallery of The Babes and Beasts of BlizzCon 2008.

Spreadsheet Escape is a type of maze game that sends you shooting from cell to cell.

You can’t download at work, by why leave your home connect sitting idle? Control your uTorrent remotely.