Hacker News on 21 December 2009

• The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
• How Duke Nukem Forever Failed: Unlimited time, budget and ambition
• Sugar: The Bitter Truth (UCSF lecture)
• The official term for the smell after it rains
• Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable
• Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
• The Worst Ideas of the Decade - Sarbanes-Oxley
• Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
• How to say nothing in 500 words
• How to obtain and install an SSL/TSL certificate, for free