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--GAMING: World of Wiimote (Joystiq)

--JUICY GOSSIP: YouTube's copyright software not finished on time? (Mashable)

--ONLY IN JAPAN: Tokyo Found: Insane Japanese Kicking Game (Gizmodo)

--THE INDUSTRY: What Superhero Are You? (TechCrunch)**

--APPLE: 10 questions Apple must answer in 2007 (Cult of Mac)

--THE INDUSTRY: Analyst: PS3 dragging Sony down (Kotaku)

**I am Spider-Man. "You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky, and have great power and responsibility." Hey, sweet.

--ROBOTS: Baseball Hitting Robot (Break.com)

--END-OF-YEARNESS: 2007 Predictions and 2007 Predictions Response (Mashable)

--GAMING: Joichi Ito on World of Warcraft (We Make Money Not Art)

--THE INDUSTRY: Apple filing likely to tell all on options (NYT via CNET News.com)

--LUXURY: Ultimate Apple Fanatic's Residence: Dubai's iPad (Cult of Mac)

--END-OF-YEARNESS: Worst Vlogs of 2006 (10 Zen Monkeys)

--ARTS AND CRAFTS: Shake control your music: Wii remote + Linux (MAKE Magazine)

--YOUTUBERY: Welcome to the YouTube Nation

--JUICY GOSSIP: Microsoft bribing bloggers with laptops (Slashdot)**

--GAMING: Newsmaker: Drawing on the Wii, reality TV (CNET News.com)

--WEB 2.0: Web 2.0 bubble talk hits mainstream media (HipMojo)

--GAMING: Roomba, meet the Wii remote (CNET News.com)

--GAMING: Fox Sports to launch full game downloads (PaidContent)

**Actually, according to CrunchGear, Microsoft wants them back. Oops.

--CURRENT EVENTS: Baghdad is like Grand Theft Auto (Alive in Baghdad)

--ONLY IN NEW YORK: Online Auction Store Windows (PSFK)

--SECOND LIFE: Virtual land magnate shares secrets of her success and Virtual magnate talks China, censorship (CNET News.com)

--GAMING: Wii Dissection (Notcot)

--CYBERLAW: Record industry DRM from 1907 (BoingBoing)

--THE INDUSTRY: Executive shakeup at video site Revver (CNET News.com)

--CONSUMERISM: Popular gadgets may make painful holiday gifts (Reuters)

--CYBERLAW: Major record labels (finally) sue Moscow-based AllofMP3.com (PaidContent)

--APPLE: Apple Store Holiday Screensaver (Cult of Mac)

MeasuredUp gives people yet another place to complain

Frustrating service at restaurants and dry cleaning horror stories are all too common. When you have a bad customer service experience, it's likely you want to take action, but aside from the Better Business Bureau, where else can you turn? MeasuredUp is a new social networking site that exists solely to let people post their experiences (good and bad) with local businesses. Similar sites already exist. Yelp and Yahoo Local are two good examples of community-based sites that offer a place to swoon or gripe, but neither aim to inspire massive … Read more

--GAMING: Wii Forecast Walkthrough Video (gmrblogs)

--HUMOR: Al Gore caught warming globe to boost box office (Treehugger)

--VIRTUAL EVENTS: NBC to host "jam session" in Second Life tonight (CNET News.com)

--GADGETRY: Asus Z801 Karaoke Phone (Gizmodo)**

--CONSUMERISM: DIY wrapping paper design (Information Aesthetics)

--CYBERLAW: CA legislator not liking in-game adware (Game|Life)

--THE INDUSTRY: Mobile gaming firm Glu Mobile applies for an IPO (PaidContent)

**I know of a few Cravers who probably want a karaoke phone.

--VIRAL INFECTIONS: iPod in a blender (YouTube)

--SECOND LIFE: The AvaStar: Second Life gets a tabloid (PSFK)

--APPLE: iPod Death Watch (CrunchGear)

--GAMING: CNN staffer nearly assualted over Wii (Game|Life)

--SOCIAL NETWORKING: MySpace's print foray: Marmalade (PaidContent)

--WEB 2.0: GeoBeats: YouTube meets the Travel Channel (Webware)

--GAMING: New Year's flOw: Evolutionary title delayed to January 2007 (IGN)

--ONLY IN DUBAI: Hydropolis: The world's first underwater luxury hotel (Gadgetell)

--ADVERTISING: Double Fusion draws $26 million funding round (CNET News.com)

--MICROSOFT: Zune 1.2 Firmware Update: Faster? (Gizmodo)

--GAMING: More LocoRoco games, confirms Sony (Joystiq)

Peerflix adds swapping service

Peerflix (which is kind of like Netflix for communists) has changed its purchase model in an attempt to make it more friendly to DVD traders. Peerbux, the strange pseudo-currency, no longer exists. In its place is trade cash, which still has an irregular conversion rate of $3.75 real dollars to 1 trade dollar. Confused? So are we. What are no longer confusing are the movie description pages, which combine professional and user reviews along with recommendations and availability information to bring that part of its service up to par with Netflix.

DivShare file hosting launches… Read more

We dredged the series of tubes for you: here's today's roundup of link love.

--ONLY IN JAPAN: Japanese man makes Wii from tofu (Kotaku)

--GAMING: Amazon to sell Wii and PS3 on Tuesday (CrunchGear)

--APPLE: MacBook Pro batteries are inflating (Gizmodo)

--GREEN TECH: Reva Electric Car Company receives $20M funding (Treehugger)

--YEAR IN REVIEW: Top of the Tube in '06 (Webjunk TV)

--APPLE: Top 5 "I'm a Mac" parody commercials (Gizmodo)

--USB WTF: Firefly Squid USB flash drive (Plastic Bamboo)

--GAMING: Ron Jeremii (Wonderland)