Friday Links: Google Zeitgeist 2011

• Today’s the last day to Give Toys for Tots and remember the Bucklin Boys.
• Google Zeitgeist 2011 (aka The Year of Rebecca Black).
• 10 documentaries tailor-made for nerds.
• What A List Apart readers learned about the web in 2011.
• You know you want it, StarWars Nutcracker.
• Gifts for your Design Snob Best Friend.
• The messy art of UX sketching.
• Anatomy of an advertising emergency.
• An open letter to writers of open letters.
• The woman behind the iconic “Let’s get Mikey” ad for Life cereal has died. So has the co-creator of Captain America. Also, Christopher Hitchens.
• Okay, now that you’re sufficiently bummed out, here’s a penguin fetching a newspaper.