Weird Al to release songs on iTunes as soon as he's recorded them — he talks about how digital distribution makes topical parodies much easier (via) #

Slate releases Poll Tracker app for the iPhone — looks like they bought Aaron's Election '08 app and rebranded it (via) #

NYT's interactive VP debate transcript — searchable and scrollable with checkpoints and speaker coloring; it's only missing permalinks and plaintext #

Dan Aykroyd pimps vodka in a crystal skull — looks like Ray has gone bye-bye; related: his UFO "documentary" (via) #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2008 entries released! — like last year, the brilliant IF luminary Emily Short will be reviewing games as she plays them #

Cave Story coming to WiiWare with exclusive new content — if you've never played the freeware masterpiece, it's available for PC, Mac, and Linux #

Laser Portraits — or make your own (via) #

Obama campaign releases official iPhone app — flawlessly designed, focused heavily on participation; grouping your address book by state is surprisingly useful (via) #

Nintendo announces new DSi with camera, web browser, downloadable games — here's video of it in action #

Dabbleboard, social whiteboard drawing tool — you can draw and share anonymously, too #

Webmonkey on the clickjacking IFRAME exploit — potentially devastating hack and relatively easy to pull off, affecting every browser #

The Money Meltdown, excellent primer to the current mess — some very good links I haven't seen before (via) #

Google Blog Search launches new Techmeme-like homepage — funny, I thought they'd abandoned the site entirely; here's the announcement #

Dexter ad campaign spoofs Wired, Esquire, New Yorker magazine covers — clever campaign, though the typefaces are slightly off throughout; the New Yorker cover was drawn by regular Edward Sorel #

Visual History of Recessions since 1949 — in other words: everything is going to be okay (via) #

Dan Rather interviews FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver — applying knowledge learned from baseball analytics to electoral projections #

Apple lifts iPhone NDA, developers rejoice — Furbo released some source to celebrate #

Netflix launches public Javascript, Atom, REST APIs — as Kellan points out, it comes with OAuth, a developer blog, and an API explorer (via) #

Routefinder, analog mapping wristwatch from the 1920s — scroll your way through the UK (via) #

Sarah Palin plays the flute in Miss Alaska pageant — see also: Nixon on piano, Clinton on sax #