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 #

Giraffes! — rare cameo by Akiva from the Lonely Island #

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 #

xkcd on the end of the election — don't miss the alt-text #

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) #

Voting machines elect voting machine as President — DRE 700 IS LEADER (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 #

Nate Silver's guide to what to watch for on election night — a handy guide to tonight's events #

NYT's Choosing A President: A Look Back — concise video sums it up #

LittleBigPlanet as a Shmup — or: why 2009 will be the year of social, user-generated gaming (via) #

Yahoo! Live to go offline — disappointing #

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 #

The Turker's Gospel — the Bible rewritten by Mechanical Turk workers #

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 #

YouTube Meta-Art — these are all great, but I think I like Moonwalk best (via) #

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 #

Google's Halloween robots.txt — User-agent: zombies; Disallow: /brains (via) #

Shoot the Player — musicians filmed live in Australia, inspired by La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows #

Heart made of gears — easy, I'll just whip one of these up in Ponoko (via) #

Polifics, the Election '08 Fanfiction community — Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton/Biden, and even Obama/McCain slashfic (via) #

A funny thing happens when you copy/paste this character… (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 #

The Amazing True Story of Disaster Girl — even more remixes here, including meeting Tourist Guy #

You Can Vote However You Like — there should be one kid in the back singing about Ron Paul (via) #

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) #

JSSpeccy, a ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript — double-click a game to run it (via) #

Larry Lessig on California's Proposition 8 — defend marriage by voting no, please #

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 #

Free Candy!  #

West Virginia vote flipping caught on tape — if the interface is this flaky, can you imagine what the data store and security look like? #

Errol Morris launches People in the Middle for Obama — the individual stories are just brilliant #

Mega Man 9 stop-motion with paper — the real game even reproduces NES flaws like flickering and framerate issues (via) #

Christian Science Monitor to go web-only in April 2009 — the first national newspaper to drop the "paper," and not the last #