Willy Wanker: You know the anti-globalization movement has started to become a bit of a joke when you can buy anti-globalization-branded consumer products. La Siembra is a candy company that produces some kind of organic fair-trade macrobiotic alternative anti-capitalist Toronto-suburb-parentally-funded-McGill-student chocolate bar. To promote it, it’s created a Web video game where you throw chocolate at the leaders of the G8 nations in order to influence public policy. The concept is specious at best but the game is actually pretty fun. Dupe yourself into thinking you’re a revolutionary by buying chocolate at www.g8challenge.com.

Long ago: If you’re 22 now, in 1980 you were likely zero or younger. So you’d scarcely remember the 1980 fall–winter JC Penney catalogue, chock-a-block with Star Trek: The Motion Picture beanbag chairs, spandex roller-skating mini-dresses or owl-themed orange shag toilet covers. Nope. But you can invent memories at www.excitementmachine.org/jc/. :

» Michael Citrome