Jim Ray's collection of election night homepages
— automated screengrabs every half-hour from 3pm-10pm Tuesday night (via) #
United Features' website goes free, including every Peanuts strip
— and, finally, full comics in RSS feeds #
Mark Newman's 2008 election maps and cartograms
— weighted by population, fun to compare to the 2004 election #
South Park's "About Last Night…"
— absurd reimagining of the election as an Ocean's Eleven-like diamond heist #
Tim Schafer releases Grim Fandango's 70-page design document
— tons of unreleased information; character sketches, layout, cutscenes, and every puzzle #
Newsweek's exclusive Election 2008 report, embargoed behind-the-scenes story from both campaigns
— they were given major access on the condition nothing would be released until today #
The Onion: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
— this feels the 2008 counterpart to their unbelievably prescient 2001 article #
Sean Tevis, the xkcd candidate for Kansas state rep, discusses last night's loss
— his opponent used deceptive robocalls and direct mail borrowing photos from Sean's Facebook and Flickr accounts #
Kottke's collection of election maps
— interesting to see how each designer tackled the same problem so differently #
Video of CNN's first hologram interview
— a bit glitchy, definitely different from Cisco's Telepresence #
99 Bricks, like Tetris meets World of Goo
— build the tallest stable structure with 99 Tetris bricks (via) #
CNN to interview 3D hologram guests on tonight's election coverage
— guests will be interviewed from remote locations, Star Wars-style #
ABC News streaming raw video feed on Ustream.tv
— including reporters applying their own makeup and chatting with cameramen #
Philipp rounds up every YouTube video I've ever linked to
— about 20% are no longer online, proving linkrot is alive and well in YouTube #
How Nate Phelps escaped the Most Hated Family in America
— inside story of living with the Phelps family, with comments from Shirley Phelps-Roper herself #
Rob Manuel's I-Spot Internet Humour
— illustrated Internet memes in the style of vintage I-Spy children's books #
Spot.us, crowdfunded journalism
— pay journalists to dig deeper into stories; their blog's doing original reporting funded with the site #
Ras Trent, the complete lyrics
— glad to know I'm not the only person in the world to find this Samberg sketch funny #
10 Years of Textfiles
— Jason Scott reflects on the anniversary of one of the digital age's most important and vital archives #
MTV censors names of P2P apps from Weird Al video
— could be old news, and only recently noticed with the launch of MTV Music #
Lorna Mills' class on outsider net.art from 4chan to Nasty Nets
— a mess of interesting links, just start from the first class and work forward #
ReConstitution 2008, live infoviz remix of the 2008 presidential debates
— three MIT grads used custom C++ code to remix the closed captioning in real-time #
Rescue Princess 2.0, ways to make web apps more game-like
— exploratory learning with levels, items, inventory, quests, and scores #
Trailer for Touchgrind, multitouch skateboarding game for the iPhone
— let your fingers do the grinding #
Shoot the Player
— musicians filmed live in Australia, inspired by La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows #
Polifics, the Election '08 Fanfiction community
— Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton/Biden, and even Obama/McCain slashfic (via) #
Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill
— very creepy NYC storefront with animatronic hot dogs, squirming chicken nuggets, and monkey porn #
Flickr now offering shape boundaries for 150,000 places
— also, new user-created OpenStreetMap tiles for Baghdad and Kabul #
CNN asks voters to say something nice about the other guy
— like Greene, I find this really refreshing #
James Kochalka hits 10 years of drawing American Elf
— I highly recommend the first two collections, and the third's out next month (via) #
Errol Morris on the history of real-people political ads
— the McCain campaign also used this approach in their Joe the Plumber testimonials #
WTF, Broccoli: Part Two
— more photos of little food people, though Cascadian Farms is removing them on their packaging redesign #