I've played most of Okami on a PS2 and found having to draw the calligraphy with my left thumb on the stick pretty durn hard. :) Toby played it on the Wii and liked it a lot there, although there's one really annoying part that was badly designed that's just as bad - early on, a character does a dance to open flowers up, and you have to circle the buds EXACTLY at the exact points of the dance ... and when you screw up it doesn't let you skip the loooong beginning animation. That's the only thing preventing me from restarting the game on the Wii, actually. I don't want to spend hours on that section. :/

As far as Facebook tracking -- I've been using Ghostery. It disables tracking cookies, and tells you what it finds and what's disabled on the page, and has versions available for multiple browsers. I've let sites I like and trust use tracking cookies to count me, and kept the Facebook ones deactivated, except for Facebook Connect which is needed for part of Bingo Blitz on Facebook, because I am a sad, sad addict of that game. (But I turn it off when I go elsewhere!)