Want to Run Linux on Your Nintendo Wii?

You can, and it’s actually called “homebrew,” which is one of those words that always sounds like a neologism (a newly coined word) but in fact originated in the mid-nineteenth-century, meaning “an alcoholic beverage made at home.” Go beer, then, and what’s more, go who’d-a-thunk-it hacks that let you for-real load Linux and “embrace your inner penguin” on an unassuming white box half the size of a toaster.