Tuesday night.

* First on the Threatdown: coyotes!

* Winooski, Vermont: Great Domed City of the North.

* "How Health Care Reform Won."

* Is Metroid Prime the Citizen Kane of video games? Hard to pick Metroid Prime over, say, Ocarina of Time, just in the GameCube category alone.

* CNN, always three weeks behind the story, asks whether Obama has lost his mojo in the very moment it becomes apparent that his polls numbers are again rising.

* Also in poll news: contrary to Nate Silver's recent NJ-GOV analysis it does seem clear that Corzine is moving sharply upward in the polls.



* "Wall Street’s Near-Death Experience."

* And Life celebrates dumb inventions of the 1950s and '60s.

Offworld is not lying: The Ocarina of Rhyme is the greatest video-game/hip-hop mash-up of our age. [download link]

Zelda in Latin. Sic transit gloria.

Links I am physically incapable of resisting: "One man choral group performs the Legend of Zelda theme."



Also going around: another Live-Action Super Mario. Via Boing Boing and Waxy.

Things I'm guaranteed to fall for:

* Video-game theme songs for the string quartet.

* Teller, after the apocalypse.

* Oil paintings inspired by video games and Internet memes.

* Articles titled "Welcome to the Post-Carbon World," with sci-fi subtitles like "Why do some planets survive their carbon crises and others don’t? A plan for how ours could."

* Stanley Kubrick.