News You Can Bruise for 2009 December 28

And from 2008, the election night party at Professor Biella Coleman's place. A short gallery, but it includes a Kermit the Frog cookie cutter and Karl Fogel's dad.

• Peculiar Voyage: Escape From Cute, a fun Shiren the Wanderer homebrew clone for the DS.
• Remember fresh berries? A tip to keep them fresh.
• A tiny Starfleet strike force. Not the Defiant as seen in "One Little Ship".
• The Game Crafter does print-on-demand for board games. Has anyone I know used this?
• A labor of love: charts of all the Nintendo Power game popularity data 1988-1994. Really needs to be put into a spreadsheet.
• For an excessive sum, you too can own a Shinya Arino-style Famicom controller business card case.
• A recreation of one of those crazy Futurist dinners I've been telling you about for years. (Not constantly, obviously.)
• 100 Days in Glacier National Park.
• The Twitter account "douchesFollowMe".
• Perhaps H.P. Lovecraft's least chilling work, "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson".
• The Crummy.com Symbol of the Year.
• Could the TV Tropes Story Generator make it possible for TV Tropes to help a writer get work done? No! Don't fall for it!
• We all know what Werner von Braun thinks of the disposition of rockets once they go up. But before they go up, he's downright fussy.
• In 1997 I read a science fiction story by Rob Malda of Slashdot fame, about a Tamagotchi-like Perl script. I thought it was a really good story, and it was also notable for being good SF despite not having any fantastic element--it was technically possible, even in 1997. I can't find the story itself, but I did find this 1999 summary of the story, so I know I'm not making it up. Does anyone remember this? Anyone have a copy? Update: Michael Yount found it by the clever trick of going to Rob Malda's homepage.
• If it's the end of the year, it's time to dust off this excessive, cheesy New Years strata. The recipe for it, I mean. (Substitute fried mushrooms for prosciutto to make it vegetarian.)