Friday Roundup

Miscellany aggregated, for your perusal.

• Hey, Spring of Trivia. The newest Japanese import T.V.
  
  
• This isn't the best way to avoid a Christmas concert.
  
  
• From the J.G. Ballard Desk: researchers looking for a sunken midget submarine have instead found the wreckage of enormous, forgotten seaplane.
  
  
• Firefox rising. Advertised in the New York Times.
  
  
• The year in poetry from those clever blokes at The Economist.
  
  
• Did somebody say moving the goal posts?
  
  
• Dog Judo. Virgin Mobile's latest clever advertising campaign.