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 #

Splicd, permalink to a YouTube timecode — conveniently hackable URLs, too #

Try Google Search as it looked in January 2001 — extremely surreal flashback only available for one month; predates 9/11, YouTube, Sarah Palin, or this blog (via) #

Rososo, the peaceful newsreader — clean and minimalist approach to feedreading for newbies (via) #

Twitter's Biz Stone charts popular terms tweeted during the presidential debate — you can reconstruct the entire debate this way #

I Wish I Were the Moon — experimental gameplay with four endings, part of Daniel Benmergui's Moon Stories mini-trilogy #

SF Gate's profile on Flickr community manager Heather Champ — virtually nobody can understand the job's difficulty or the impact her work has on Flickr's culture #

Very Small Array visualizes #1 hit singles by genre, geographic origin, and song length — great stuff; see also: the Whitburn Project, part one and two #

Metafilter user tracks down the lead singer of Sonseed, the Christian ska band — sometimes, journalism is just picking up the phone #

xkcd draws the universe from top to bottom, on a logarithmic scale — in-jokes galore, inspired by this logarithmic map of the universe #

Footage from Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska swimsuit competition — video was deleted, here's my local copy on Waxy #

Twitter Elections — based on candidate-related tweets, looks like only 2% of the Twitterverse is conservative #

Shrub, proxy for Amazon S3 with RSS, JSON, and Muxtape-style output — for sharing S3 buckets with the world; more from the creator #

Cisco accidentally removes all letter "T"s from official homepage — regex gone awry (via) #

Justin Ouellette on the meteoric rise and fall of Muxtape — I'm surprised there aren't invite-only Muxtape clones, flying under the RIAA's radar (via) #

Inside a North Korean video arcade — I love the modded Aero City cabinet #

Current TV partners with Twitter to broadcast tweets on live presidential debate broadcast — the first real-time backchannel on live TV? #

Vimeo Toys, real-time interactive visualizations of Vimeo social activity — I'd love to see new comments appear as word balloons in Vimeo Land (via) #

A Car's Life, interactive game built on YouTube annotations — they claim it's the first, but this Spanish adventure game came out in July (via) #

David Letterman on John McCain's cancelled appearance tonight — leaked video, expect this one to disappear shortly; the live feed of him talking to Katie Couric is pretty damning #

Dominoes Made of Dominoes — note the one column of blue trying to hold out (via) #

Hardcore "Claymates" respond to Clay Aiken coming out of the closet — a strange mix of heartbreak, support, and disgust (via) #

Suzanne Vega talks about Tom's Diner, remix culture, and being the "mother of the MP3" — Karlheinz Brandenburg used the 1984 song to help debug the MP3 codec #

Wario Ware Inc: Doc Brown's Microgames — much better (via) #

Larry Lessig's analysis of Sarah Palin's experience — in this very important presentation, he examines every single VP in history to see how she stacks up #

Superconducting maglev toy train — needs more Doc Brown (via) #

Abe Vigoda still alive — thanks for the update, CNN; also, Twitter, Facebook, and single-serving #

Parsons students design Little Big Planet levels — the scale of the Shadow of the Colossus-inspired creature is insane #

Bernanke/Paulson FAIL — is it just me, or am I seeing more of current net culture leaking into mainstream media? (via) #

Nintendo's Wario Land meta-ad destroys YouTube UI — inspired by the HEMA ad? try dragging the UI elements around at the end #

Google Maps adds NYC public transit directions — finally! not perfect yet, but HopStop must be panicking a bit #

SweetAfton23's MyHope — "I hope your MySpace stays forever... and I hope that your kids find it" #