links for 2009-01-07

Not even the Canadians can resist Mr. Armitage — a full 17 minutes of gamers running the world.

I'm a little confused why Uglydolls, which made the leap from vinyl-hipsterdom to massively mainstream in 2004? at the latest, surely, are now "news," but boy howdy I'll bet it's pretty sweet to be David and Sun-Min right now, businesswise. Too bad the shopping season's just over.

If I come back, will someone promise to take me here? I would like to eat menus and the like.

Then I saw this, and now I really want to see it.

Then I saw this.

First I saw this.