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The most shocking thing about kids these days? They don’t care about TV.

It's like strip poker, but way more likely to get you arrested.

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A NYT photographer films kids' expressions as they play video games.

Tavi is a twelve-year-old blogger whose tragically hip musings, iconic sense of style, and actually funny sense of humor (her favorite foods are “raspberries and hipsters”) somehow make us even more embarrassed when we remember how we behaved at that age (although fart jokes still count as funny…right?).

The Best Links:

1. TAVI IS REAL!
2. “Who is Tavi? Can I Have Her? Do You Think She Knows How to Get Me Health Insurance, Too? “
3. Tavi’s Blog

Producers likely inspired by the jaw-dropping profit of High School Musical are debuting in this new musical led by a cast comprised exclusively of teenagers.

The Best Links:

1. The Show’s Tagline: “A New Musical About the Labels That Last a Lifetime.” (…Intense, No?)
2. A Cast Comprised Solely of Teenagers? Sounds Like a Dream.
3. “A Funny, Exciting Love Letter to Childhood”
4. 13 The Musical
5. “What It Means To Be A Friend” [Like “Mean Girls” With Music]
6. The Cast Performs at “Broadway On Broadway”

Why are videos of children causing themselves harm so endlessly amusing?

MTV — the same network that made bisexuality the basis for a game show — is remaking the 1975 cult classic.

The Best Links:

1. MTV Readies “Rocky Horror” Redux
2. Hairspray 2: Also Happening
3. Casting Notes: Bruce Vilanch To Woo The MTV Generation?
4. New Rocky Horror To Feature New Horrible Music
5. “The Time Warp”

Young men these days are turning to vasectomies because of pregnancy fears.

The Best Links:

1. My Vasectomy: Here’s What It Looks Like (NSFW)
2. Young Men Getting The Snip — Vasectomies Are The New Condoms

A 14-year-old who talks like a chipmunk has YouTube’s fourth most-subscribed video channel.

The Best Links:

1. Fred Goes Swimming
2. Fred Goes to the Dentist
3. Fred Loses His Meds (Most Popular Video)
4. Fred’s Mom is Missing
5. Kids Programming Hits YouTube — 4th Most Subscribed After Just Two Months
6. YouTube - Fred’s Channel
7. Best Week Ever Inexplicably Loves This Guy

A long-simmering YouTube meme: The boob punch.

The Best Links:

1. Boob Punching. It Makes Us Giggle
2. This Actually Just Looks Like Abuse
3. This Looks Painful
4. The Most Timid Boob Punch of This Collection
5. Surprise Boob Slap!!
6. Self Boob Punching
7. No One Punches Boob Like Michael Cera
8. What Is This Boob Punching You Speak Of?
9. “Cuz you know punching a woman in the breasts is so funny, har har.”

The restaurant chain best known for not serving Asians and smelling like old people is trying to woo a younger, late-night crowd by “playing rock after midnight, allowing servers to dress casually, and serving bar food like ‘potachoes.’” (Fried food with silly names - just like on Cheers !)

The Best Links:

1. Denny’s Wants to Rock ‘n’ Roll All Night Long [and They Even Started a Weblog!]
2. Now What Exactly is a “Cheesy Four Pack?”
3. “Added in the Wee Hours for the Wee Ones: a Dimly Lit Club Ambience and a Waitstaff That Will Swap Black Slacks and Collared Shirts for T-shirts and … Dungarees!”
4. Crazy Party and Mini BBQ Hamburgers: 10 Miles
5. Don’t Feel Left Out, Blacks. Denny’s Hates You Too!
6. Suck It, Pitchfork. Denny’s Knows the Cool Bands.
7. “So, if You See Your Favorite Myspace Band This Summer and They’re Looking a Little Portly and Lethargic, You Can Bet You’ll See Them at Denny’s After the Show.”

Dolls made to resemble kids with Down Syndrome: politically correct attempt at inclusion or cringe-inducing marketing plan at the expense of kids?

The Best Links:

1. How Do You Sell Down Syndrome Dolls in Brazil? Easy! Soap Opera!
2. And Then There’s Benny, the Anatomical Teddy Bear
3. “The Whole Thing Just Reeks of a Bad Joke”
4. Then Again, You Can Make Them Yourself…Right? [Um, the Worst Thing You’ll Ever See.]
5. Yup, They’re Going to Hell
6. Just Remember You’re Going to Hell for About a Billion Other Reasons
7. “Wonderfully Unique” Dolls

The omnipresent video site has debuted a new feature, which allows for interactive commentary layered directly into the clips.

The Best Links:

1. Example: An Interactive Card Trick
2. An Annotated Skydive
3. Brilliant Questions: What Are Video Annotations?
4. YouTube Begins to Pimp Its Player
5. The New Beta Feature: Video Annotations

Childhood obesity rates among American kids may have finally leveled off after years of rising steadily.

The Best Links:

1. Despite the Alleged Plateau, 30% of American Kids Being Obese Could Spell Catastrophe
2. Have We Hit a Plateau Or Just a Temporary Hill?
3. Mexican and African-American Girls Prove Ethnic Disparities Among Obese Kids

MTV’s spinoff to My Super Sweet Sixteen will send fan “favorites” to third world countries, where they’ll learn truly valuable lessons in how to be less terrible human beings.

The Best Links:

1. Expect “Exiled” To Be “Earnest,” Devoid of Chihuahuas
2. Must Be Patient. Must Be Patient…
3. Sweet! An Opportunity for Us to Judge These Kids Even More and Feel Better About Ourselves!
4. Another Example Of “Good Things Happening in a Truly Awful World?”
5. “The Premise of the Show is to “Punish” Some of the Spoiled Brats from My Super Sweet 16. How? By Giving Them Each Their Own Camera Crew, TV Show, and Mountains and Mountains of the Attention That They So Desperately Crave.”
6. Check Out the Preview Here!

Instead of MySpace , this time revealing photos of the Disney star are appearing in the pages of Vanity Fair.

The Best Links:

1. How Vanity Fair “Groomed” Miley Cyrus
2. Annie Leibovitz Defends Her Miley Pics
3. Jamie Lee Curtis Stands Up For Miley
4. Miley Cyrus Behind-the-scenes Vanity Fair Video
5. The Beginning of Miley’s Physical Makeover?
6. Earlier Miley Cyrus Pics - Featured on BuzzFeed
7. The Cyrus/VF Controversy Isn’t About Exploitation or Morality
8. Miley Cyrus Says She’s Sorry, OK?
9. The Times Says This “Revealing Photo” May Undo Miley Cyrus
10. The Article in Vanity Fair: “Miley Knows Best”
11. Miley Cyrus Doesn’t Seem Embarassed in These Behind-The-Scenes Shots
12. Miley Cyrus On Semi-Topless Pic: ‘I Feel So Embarrassed’!

MTV’s new reality show is set at Cypress Bay High School, but the focus this time is on four students vying to become Editor-In-Chief of the school’s newspaper The Circuit .

The Best Links:

1. “I Guess ‘The Website’ Just Didn’t Have the Same Ring to It.”
2. Cypress Bay High, Home of the Lightning!
3. “I Hate You, MTV. You’re a Plague Ripping Through the World and Stealing the Minds of Young People Everywhere Causing Them to Comform Into Your Own Idealistic Fallacy.”
4. MTV Finally Pays Attention to “Real Kids”
5. Read The Circuit Online
6. Watch the Trailer
7. MTV’s Baby Woodwards Love Sy Hersh, MoDo … and High School Musical (Natch!)
8. High School Newspapers: Now Dramatic

Kids are learning cage fighting techniques and mixed martial arts.

The Best Links:

1. Moms: Fighting is Not Actually So Dangerous
2. What’s the Legality of This?
3. Wow, Could That AP Story Be More Sensationalistic, Please?
4. MMA For Kids Classes Started Last Month in San Antonio
5. Footage of a Kids’ Cage Match
6. Kids Are Taking Up Ultimate Fighting