Wiiii Fitness

Alison Scott has a blog entry here on Wii Fitness - if you're the kind of person that wants to be fitter, but would like to find a _fun_ way of doing it, I recommend taking a look.

I also recommend taking a look at the before/after shots here, showing the end results of 7 weeks of Wii workout. (It was on andyduckerlinks before, but I figure it's worth reposting the occasional thing.)

TV is the Gin of the People

Clay Shirky talking about how we spend our free time. I don't necessarily agree that this is going to be a wholesale cultural change, but it's a fascinating set of thoughts anyway, and the figures on "hours society spends working on wikipedia" versus "hours society spends watching TV" are enlightening.