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The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.
- CNN's electoral map calculator is a pretty interesting little web app. The default values show you CNN's estimate for how the race will turn out, but you can switch any state you want to either candidate and see how that swings things (via Kevin). In other election news, the Maverick family points out that John McCain is not a maverick, by any definition of the word (via Jill).
- Wow. Have you seen these new McDonald's ads, trumpeting the fact that they sell lattes and cappuccinos now? They feature people who are terribly relieved that they don't have to go to Starbucks and pretend be smart anymore; they can now go to McDonalds to get their coffee drinks and go back to admitting they're ignorant slobs. Way to embrace stupidity and offend your own customers, McDonalds! (Via Sarah)
- Ford is going to release a new system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's performance based on which key is in the ignition. This way parents can give their teens a special key that can limit the car's speed to 80, keep traction control permanently on, and limit how far up you can turn the volume on the stereo. (Via Jill)
- A gallery of sci-fi spaceship concepts.
- Cinematical picks the seven funniest ladies of 2008.
- Middle Men, an upcoming film about the internet porn industry, just picked up a pretty impressive cast: James Caan, Gabriel Macht, Peter Stormare, Rachael Taylor, Luke Wilson, and Giovanni Ribisi.
- Ridley Scott's next project will be a feature film adaptation of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's classic novel.
- Cinematical discusses the footage of Watchmen they got to see, as well as the Q&A with director Zack Snyder that followed. Meanwhile, Dave Gibbons, one of the co-creators of the original graphic novel, says he really likes what he's seen of the movie so far.
- Behold Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, no doubt only the first of a new series of turntable-based rhythm games. Sigh.
- BioWare and LucasArts just announced when they'll announce the secret project they've been working on: October 21st, at around 2PM Pacific time. The assumption is that they'll be unveiling a Knights of the Old Republic MMO, but we'll see.
- A political flyer for a local race in Phoenix uses the fact that one of the candidates is a fan of Halo as a smear against him. Fail! That'd totally convince us to vote for him—or at least against anyone who thought the fact that somebody likes video games is a reason to not trust him with political office.
- Download Squad reveals that Tetris is built into your Mac as an Easter Egg in the Terminal application.
- Zara at Shiny Shiny picks the top ten games she's looking forward to this year.
- Check out the trailer for The Uninvited, the upcoming American remake of the Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters. Sisters is a mighty odd, creepy, and confusing movie that screened at the Philadelphia Film Festival a few years ago. We didn't actually enjoy it that much, but watching this trailer, it seems clear the remake has boiled that film down to something even worse: a bland, formulaic movie that's just like every other J-horror remake. Blah.
- Finally, a medical excuse for going off too soon! (Via Jill)
- We can look forward to another Marvel animated series soon: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
- Grasshopper, of Killer 7 and No More Heroes, has licensed Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 for its as yet untitled, EA-published action horror title.
- A couple of cool shmups will be officially released on the iPhone soon.
- Some gameplay footage from the much-anticipated Mirror's Edge.
- The system requirements for Wrath of the Lich King.
- Toren Atkinson got Mike Mignola to draw a portrait of his very own superhero next to a portrait of Hellboy. Good going, Atkinson!
- The Movie Blog has a new TV spot for Max Payne, as well as the news that it might be rated R after all.
- The plot synopsis for the upcoming Captain America movie.
- Time has a fun gallery celebrating the work of Ray Harryhausen, on the occasion of the release of a new deluxe box set of his movies. (Via Sarah)
- The Movie Blog picks the top ten best actors working today.
- Check out Entertainment Weekly's fun feature, the Geek Thunderdome, where they ask readers to vote on which of two characters/ships/etc. from famous sci-fi franchises would win in a throwdown. (Via)
- Underwire points us toward an online Star Wars comic.
- Hulu is streaming, for free, a feature-length documentary called Crawford, which is about the Texas town President George W. Bush calls home.
- The headline says it all: "A whole bunch of videos from The Conduit."
- Two new fragrances from Jean-Luc Picard. Truly hilarious.
- MTV tried to get a little more out of Guillermo del Toro recently about what the heck the whole second Hobbit movie is all about, but all he would say is that they're thinking of the two movies as one continuous story.
- Details on the third episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
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The McDonald's ad was totally inspirational!
Ha! Very nice.