Finally, something to do after you've broken both your arms playing Sonic Blast Man.

The BBC's 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year, 2006 edition. THE EGG CAME FIRST.

Gotham City tourist map.

UKResistance has the greatest Animal Crossing post/review ever: "...If you don't get it you can bugger off back to playing games about men shouting "HOLY SHIT" and shooting machine guns at each other with all the other 14-year-old morons. ... It's simple, but you'd be fucked without it."

I haven't tried it out yet, but Wii Media Center X claims to let you stream video, music, and images to your Wii. More documentation would be nice.

Geostationary banana over Texas

Wired's Vaporware '06 winners.

Crazy Japanese commercial. I wasn't going to mention that it's for 7-Eleven, but it totally says it on the Youtube page.

In response to the controversial redesign of the classic Archie cast, here's Archie drawn by some celebrity artists.

Browse zillions of thumbnails and discover new illustrators at Patchbox.

Bunny letter opener

Street Fighter: The Later Years Part 3 (part 1, part 2)

New York Times article with more about how wiimotes work, with diagrams.

Amazing Line Rider video: Urban Run.

hapipots

How not to do microtransactions.

Madden '07 for Wii updates the in-game weather conditions based on your area, courtesy of the newly-released forecast channel.

Some film director miis.

How wiimotes work. Turns out the answer is not "ancient Japanese sorcery."

Blog-media clichés. I will gladly give up "wait for it" and ironic ghettospeak if I never have to hear any of the others again.

That guy over there totally looks like you.

Biggest cop-out ever. My prediction for Time's Person of the Year 2007: 2007 WAS JUST A DREAM.

My new favorite, non-fictional Wikipedia section title: 1960s Starfighter crisis

Pitchfork's top 25 worst album covers of 2006.

Official Wiimote wrist strap replacement form

"This is what it's like to play the PlayStation 3. Now, what's it like playing the Nintendo Entertainment System?"

Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist: profiling ten wild and cur-azay dictators

The Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

More on Lasse Gjertsen's Amateur.

Dragon Quest on DS: What it means

Firefly to return as an MMORPG. In related news, Arrested Development was picked up for another season as a gunrack.

Dick Cheney's Google searches.

“You know the Godzilla Building? I’m just a couple blocks South of there.”

EepyBird's Coke and Mentos Fountain II. Where is the little man going off the diving board??

O M G guyz Wii Bowling is soooo easy.

Severe tire entire car damage

Missing pages from the Wii safety manual.

I am absolutely horrible at this World Map game. Real Americans fail geography!

How to defend your Wii from orange juice and cigarettes and clovers. (not even that Clover)

Carved Crayons by Pete Goldlust.

Things you can't do when you're not in a pool.