IRAQ WAR ENDS and other great headlines in today’s (fake) New York Times (courtesy of The Yes Men).

Mark Newman at the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan generated this awesome collection of election maps. My favorite is above.

H/T Andrew Sullivan

UPDATE:
As Steve and Josh commented, the red/blue colors can give a biased visual perspective. Here’s the same map with the hue rotated 120 degrees.

After the hoopla of winning the election, and a lot of wonk-talk about the cabinet posts, I was so greatful to read this today:

WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials

I think that closing Gitmo as one of his firsts acts in office will send a strong message to the world, and americans at home, that morality is back on the table as an important american value.

NOTE: Pre-emptive anti-snark statement… I know the witch has many sisters and that Glinda herself has been known to cohort with lobbyists, but give a munchkin a chance to party a bit. ; )

Mr. Mul-zany shared this incredible Flash video site with me today via email. Too freakin’ awesome!

This came up as one of the sidebar images on the blog’s home page (it searches Flickr for photos tagged with ‘information’). He calls it a “Life Map,” and it shows his interests, academic and non-academic, apportioned through his life.

Phillip Toledano’s installation America: The Gift Shop is definitely worth an on-line browse. Chilling and funny at the same time. (Pictured above is the Abu Ghraib Coffee Table.)

I want to live in a dome house! I think…

From the pretty darn cool green-blog Inhabitat.

You know the country has reached a cultural high when high school cheerleaders are staging mock executions at pep rallies. Maybe Sarah Palin can hire them to perform at her hate rallies?

One student at the school felt it was totally inappropriate and spoke out against it on ABC News.

Nice Robert Indiana remix I found in Brooklyn.

In his closing remarks at tonight’s debate, John McCain recalled his childhood. He said his father was absent much of the time because he was “doing America’s business.”