Sometimes I want to do a themed Otaku Links (like last week when I posted all How-Tos and the week before when I posted only anime items) and as a result, I leave out a lot of great links because they don’t fit. Here’s a bunch of those links. Happy Friday!

1. Eight great ways to spend 2011. I always say I’ll do something like take a photo a day, write every day, or draw a picture a day, but I never can keep up with it. Maybe once a week?

2. The 60 best new Tumblr blogs. Total timesink.

3. Japanese treadmill game show. And you thought you’d seen everything.

4. Geekosystem weighs in on the possible extinction of geekdom. I sort of touched on this earlier in the week.

Geeks will never have to worry about the mainstream taking us over. We would never trade being interesting and unique for being boring like everyone else. And now all those boring people want our stuff, which wasn’t cool enough for them before, and that’s really annoying.

5. The politics of enthusiasm. I would love my blog to be “a cabinet of wonder.” It’s already full of everything I like.

6. If Mario was a first person shooter.

7. And last, the Photoshop tutorial rap. I actually learned something!