Has it been a year already? Otis at Basic Hip has started his weekly Christmas album series. A schedule of upcoming downloads is here.

The game Russian Affairs reminds me of a few old beat-em-ups.

If you blinked and missed it when I posted a link to the Jay-Z/Beatles mashup “Grey Video”, Waxy has it again. Well done.

Now that there’s Chrismukka, how long until Festivus becomes a reality? I’m waiting for it.

After beating Half Life 2 over the weekend, the Half Life Story Guide was an interesting read.

Don’t let your stick figure get whacked in the head. That’s all there is to Stick Avalanche.

The “Rock and roll hell page!” is providing me with lots of entertaining reading.

Did you know that the guy who made the line “squeal like a pig” famous has done more than that? It’s true!

Warehouse is another one of those “push the boxes or whatever they are to the right locations without getting stuck” games. It’s tough.

The Authentic History Center has way too many good sections to post them all, but it would be a shame not to point out their “The Godless Communism” comic book scans or images from the prohibition era. I could spend days here.

Amazingly geeky post of the day: Koders. It’s a script search engine.

Navigate the marble: Ball-o-Tron.

Courtesty of the always interesting and useful Snopes: Thanksgiving legends and myths.

Pot the yellow discs (which is harder than it looks): Disc Dastardly.

Race away with Uniroyal Fun Cup.

The NYPL Picture Collection is an amazing collection of 30,000 images taken from books, magazines, newspapers and more.

A Simpson’s song in .Wav format is the perfect thing to set as someone’s startup sound when they’re not looking.

This article on FCC Chairman Michael Powell is an interesting read if like me you find what’s happening with media in the US to be heading back to the days when married couples had two beds on television. Use BugMeNot to read the piece. Link stolen from Manic when he wasn’t looking.

Song Meanings at Songfacts gets their info mainly from submissions, so lots of guesswork and rumors. Fun to browse in any case.

This is a pretty random selection of old advertisements. Some nice ones though.