Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday

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

• Today's election links: defective yeti's liveblog of last night's debate; a horrifying and hilarious interactive site imagining Palin as President (via Jill); a gallery of McCain and Obama movie posters; Wired offers a place to report any problems you might have while voting; John Cleese gives his opinion of Sarah Palin (via); and Hayden Panettiere takes a shot at John McCain.
• *snort* Penny Arcade takes a look at the dangers of going trick-or-treating with a geek.
• Lots of fun pics from the new Star Trek movie, including the whole cast in costume!
• Oh man, we cannot wait to see the Jim Henson Company's Muppet film noir. It sounds so awesome.
• Cinematical has a fun collection of geek info including the news that the Ghostbusters are back in comic book form; which comics are influencing the Green Lantern script; Kenneth Branagh really is seriously going to direct Thor; Spike TV will premiere some Watchmen footage during Scream 2008; and some footage from Star Trek that J.J. Abrams showed Simon Pegg made him cry—in a good way.
• Joystiq has various picture tours from the Tokyo Game Show, including the Namco/Bandai booth, the Tecmo booth, and the Konami booth.
• Three would-be drug smugglers have been busted in Australia after a customs official at Sydney's international airport detected 3,400 ecstasy pills stuffed inside what's being described as a "PlayStation game" (although from the pictures it's clearly a console of some kind, not a game). (Via)
• Joystiq's impressions of Sonic Unleashed, after getting a look at it at the Tokyo Game Show.