World of Goo.

World of Goo is a brilliant game. If you have a Wii, you owe it to yourself to drop $15 on downloading it.

I'd classify it as a cross between Lemmings and a Tinkertoy set. On each level you need to guide cute little critters ("gooballs", in this case) from a starting point, across variously hostile terrain, and then to an exit. But where Lemmings had you assign various worker-roles to some of the critters in order to make a path for the others, Goo has you using them as building material.

The gooballs like to be picked up with the wiimote, and if you drop one near two or three of its buddies, they'll reach out and link up as a lattice. Thus you construct towers, wedges, bridges, and various other structures that non-linked gooballs can walk across to the exit. The game uses a full-bore 2D physics engine, and the things you build act like "real" (in a Flatlandish sense) structures of their shape would, if made out of a rubbery material. A lot of the puzzles involve figuring out how to use up as few gooballs as possible to build stable supports for the up-reaching ones, and it's a real joy to play with.

This is surely the best Wii Ware game published yet, and worth every penny. Go get it. (Thanks to queue for the rec!)

This is worse than South Park.

According to the remnants of the Republican base, if you vote, you are worthy of derision. Not surprising, given that Keep In the Vote! is an official part of the party platform this cycle.

I really hope that we're witnessing the GOP shitting the bed. I sincerely wish for the rise of a non-fucknut conservative party in the United States after this. (On second thought, as long as I'm wishing, it might be pretty good if the GOP stuck around as a filter for all the mouth-breathers to fall into instead of joining all teh latte elists what use big college words in the new party.)