A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

• After it came out that seven recipes listed on John McCain's campaign website as being "Cindy's Recipes" had actually been copied verbatim from the Food Network, the campaign blamed an intern, saying he'd "been dealt with" and that "we took away his zero pay." Heh heh heh. Meanwhile, a disturbing practice called microtargeting tries to connect consumer habits, like how people eat, with who they will vote for. Check out what your eating habits say about your political beliefs. (Via Sarah)
• Researchers at Glasgow University have developed a molecule-sized switch which should allow technology developers to increase data storage without increasing the size of devices. We're talking increasing the capacity of devices like iPods by 150,000 times. Excuse us while we clean the drool off our keyboard. (Via Sarah)
• Wired asks an interesting question: if your job is blogging, and thus your job is your personal life, can you write off personal expenses on your taxes? Like, say, condoms? (Via Sarah)
• The latest installments of two of our favorite web comics are hitting a bit close to home for this Phillyist.
• The new X-Files movie is going to be called X-Files: I Want to Believe. That was always one of the more powerful phrases from the show as far as this Phillyist is concerned, so he's pretty pleased with the title.
• Wesley Snipes is looking at a maximum penalty of three years in prison now that he's been convicted of failing to file a tax return.
• Rumors have been going around that there was fight going on between Ed Norton and others over Incredible Hulk, but Norton has made a statement claiming that a perfectly healthy collaborative process was misrepresented as a dispute, and that in fact all is happy and well in Hulk-land. Here's hoping that's the truth, because we want a good movie to come out of all of this.
• "A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time.... They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm.... [T]he researchers used laser pulses to create plasma filaments that could conduct electricity akin to Benjamin Franklin’s silk kite string." Um, woah. One of the researchers said: "This was an important first step toward triggering lightning strikes with laser beams." But why the heck would you want to do that? Apparently in order to study the mechanisms underlying lightning strikes. And also, we're betting, because shooting laser beams at a thunderstorm is really bad-ass.

• More mind-blowingly awesome gameplay footage from Soul Calibur IV. We're puzzled as to how there can be people in the world who think that including Darth Vader and Yoda in this game is a bad idea. Are you seeing the same things we're seeing??
• Wired sent a secret mission team to New York to do an extensive interview with Nintendo's game design genius Shigeru Miyamoto; the interview is still forthcoming, but they do have a nice photo you can look at in the meantime. After the interview, Kohler went over to the Nintendo World Store and took some nice photos there, too.
• Remember that story about the geek who made a special version of Bejeweled in order to propose to his beloved? Well, now PopCap, the makers of the game, are paying for part of the honeymoon as well as handing out copies of the game to guests as wedding favors.
• Nintendo has denied rumors that a new DS is on the way, but Joystiq doesn't believe it.
• Joystiq spin-off Wii Fanboy is starting a new feature called the Brawl Stage of the Week, wherein they'll be putting up a new custom stage for Smash Bros. Brawl every week.
• Ryan Davis at Giant Bomb plans to watch and review every video game movie ever made. It's a project that's fraught with horror and danger, and we wish him well. (Via)
• Episode III of GameTrailers' Star Wars gaming retrospective has arrived.
• Comcast can apparently disconnect your service for excessive usage, and then tell you you have to alter your usage patterns, but not explain exactly how. Just another reason to hate and despise Comcast, the company with possibly the worst customer service of all time.
• Behold the horror that is this internal Microsoft sales video, which takes the form of a horrible parody of a Bruce Springsteen music video.
• Check a pretty hot picture of Rachel Nichols as Scarlett in G.I. Joe.
• Hong Kong director Johnnie To is doing a remake of 1970 crime thriller Le Rouge Cercle and wants Orlando Bloom to star in it. But... why??
• The long-awaited review of Zombie Strippers.
• Ridley Scott is going to direct and produce a film adaptation of The Kind One, a novel about an amnesiac in 1930s Los Angeles who is informed that before he lost his memory, he was a ruthless gangster. Hey... didn't we just see that movie? We're betting Scott can do a better job, though, especially with Casey Affleck as the star.
• Scientists might be able to simulate how Neanderthals might have talked. (Via Jill)

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