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- Wired has a couple of fun, presidential photo galleries up for Election Day: A Century of Presidents and Casting the Ballot in Elections Gone By. They've also got a fun story to scare the crap out of you: "optical-scan machines made by Election Systems & Software failed recent pre-election tests in a Michigan county, producing different tallies for the same ballots every time." Meanwhile, Sci-Fi Wire has the most important candidate comparison yet: which candidate would do best in the crises imagined by 10 classic sci-fi movies? Chris's Invincible Super-Blog is endorsing Obama, for three really excellent reasons. The Movie Blog also endorses Obama. Barack Obama and Sarah Palin will be available as downloadable, playable characters in an upcoming update to Pandemic’s Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. Underwire picks sci-fi's top 5 educational takes on politics. Super Punch, with the help of Optimus Prime and Captain America, encourages you to vote. Press for change!
- Fanboys finally has a trailer (which is hilarious) and a new release date (which is February 6th, 2009). Hooray!
- Matt Selman went to his Halloween party as Jewverine. Brilliant!
- Video demonstrating a hack that allows rapid fire of the Wii Remote's A or B button.
- Think your Halloween costume was pretty impressive? Think again! Because Dave T. Smith already totally beat you, for now and forever. (Via)
- Kung Fu Clowns! Seriously fantastic. (Via Sarah)
- Head over to Amazon.com's main page today and you'll see an interesting message about a new initiative they've started to end "wrap rage" by using less packaging material and making it easier to open. It's environmentally friendly, and human friendly! We can't explain to you how much we hate those clamshell packages, so we're very excited about this. (Via Sarah)
- The creator of Bejeweled talks about other simple, addictive games.
- Tomorrow is being celebrated as the 40th anniversary of the laptop.
- Wired's Gadget Lab picks five useless gadgets you should throw in the trash right now. Harsh!
- They really are going to remake Forbidden Planet. Sigh. Speaking of remakes, it looks like they're also going to remake Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. That's the prequel movie from the original Apes series. The remake will not be connected at all to Tim Burton's disastrous remake of the original Apes film, thank God.
- Two sequels to Road to Perdition are now in the works. We loved the first movie, so this is good news. We're less excited by the news that they'll be written and directed by Max Allan Collins, who wrote the original graphic novel. We actually like the movie better than the source material, and doubt Collins' filmmaking abilities. But who knows? Maybe he'll pull it off.
- Video of a user-created LittleBigPlanet level that mimics the first level of Gradius. Brilliant!
- Those lucky blighters in the UK will soon be getting a vending machine for PS3 games, Blu-ray Disc movies, and digital music/movie distribution.
- New WarioWare games are coming to the DS and the DSi.
- Joystiq compares the box art for Wrath of the Lich King and Rise of the Witch-King.
- Download Squad considers Windows 7.
- Mac-using World of Warcraft fans might want to check out WoW Watcher, a program that tells you in a glance whether your favorite World of Warcraft server is up (via).
- Shiny Shiny reviews T-Mobile's G1 Android phone.
- Sci Fi Wire has some new clips and ads for Twilight.
- Some fun videos showing how Star Trek TV shows and movies have contradicted themselves over the years.
- We're pretty excited about the new Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon show, and so is Toren Atkinson.
- The real reason Terrence Howard got dumped from Iron Man 2: he was being paid way too much money (more even than Robert Downey Jr.), and he sucked. Okay, we're convinced!
- Sony and Paramount Studios are in talks to co-finance Tintin, but only two films, and not the originally planned trilogy. But we assume if those two do well, they'll renegotiate.
- Joaquin Phoenix was in fact not kidding: he really is quitting acting.
- As a special Christmas treat, Cinematic Titanic is taking on a favorite old target of MST3K: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
- David Lynch has signed a deal with On Networks to produce a web series based on his most recent book, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity.
- A graphic design team in England polled 1,000 British men to assemble their favorite Bond girl parts into a complete woman.
- Wii Fanboy picks the top 5 multiplayer experiences.
- May 19th, 2009 is the release date listed on Gamestop's web site for The Conduit. They may have just made that up, but then again they may not.
- That Beatles game from Harmonix will apparently have no compatibility whatsoever with any of the Rock Band games.
- More amusing Star Wars LEGO creations, including Obi-Wan's trophy room. Heh.
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