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Flash games designed to be played on the Wii’s Internet Channel. What a clever way of getting “homebrew” games onto the Wii!

Simon Willison does a screencast explaining the howtofores of OpenID. I had only a basic grasp of it before (despite implementing the plugin on this here blog), but now I understand the magic of it, I’m a convert.

Woot slam the PS3 in their promotional copy, and still sell out in 4.5 minutes! “In fact, we love the Wii so much, we want to give a Wii to everybody on our payroll. To fund this Wii-for-the-People program, we’re selling this Sony PlayStation 3.”

Links to YouTube and Google Video for the 50 Greatest Cartoons, as voted for by animators in 1994. “One Froggy Evening” is one of the best things ever.

How odd. When I saw this bleeped on SNL, I thought it was “Cock in a Box”, as did Joy. I’m not sure how I feel about “Dick in a Box”. Doesn’t seem as funny, somehow.

Online multiplayer simplified-Risk. This is going to consume my time, I know it!

Nice plugin for Firefox which simplifies the URL field and emphasizes the hostname of the URL. Could help users avoid phishing attacks. Should this be the standard URL display in Firefox?

Jellyvision are releasing new web-based “DisOrDat” each weekday. If you know whether the “Denver Nuggets” are a basketball team, or a dish made with animal testicles, then this is the game for you.

If you haven’t already seen the original video, watch it first and see if you can work out how he does it. It’s a lot less high-tech than I’d imagined!

Great new video from Jarvis Cocker.

What’s the Twitter equivalent of a “Fakester”?

Clocky — the alarm clock that runs away from you after you hit Snooze, so you have to get out of bed — is now available for purchase.

With the Weather channel being released this morning, and Opera later this week, it’s going to be fun to see how the non-gaming side of Wii grows.

“Waldfogel’s main finding is that, in general, people spend a lot more on presents than they’re worth to those who receive them.”

Because logging you out of your banking website is clearly less important than trying to sell you another credit card.

Excellent deconstruction of the ridiculousness of the “ticking timebomb” argument for allowing torture.

Uncle Jakob has officially run out of things to write about.

“You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.”

Self-hostable OpenID server in a single PHP script.

Teaser trailer for the new Die Hard movie featuring Bruce Willis and A Mac. Disappointingly, given its title, not set in New Hampshire. Spoiler: Shit blows up.