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I've added to our extensive sidebar -- for one month and change only -- the projected electoral college map provided by electoral-vote.com, a site that I visit daily...assuming it's late in a leap year. Yes, the mysterious Votemaster did predict a Kerry win in 2004, but in his/her defense that one was a bit of a squeaker.

I would like to stress that this temporary addition will in no way affect the Random Jimmy Olsen Generator 5000^tm, which is still located safely at the bottom of the sidebar. Remember, Furdell.com is your only source on the web for random covers of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.

Apparently during the Hollywood writers' strike, while we weren't looking, Buffy-creator Joss Whedon decided to put together a 40-minute internet-only musical comedy starring Neil Patrick Harris as a mad scientist in love, and Nathan Fillion as the arch-nemesis hero who thwarts him at every turn. It's called "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," and you can watch it for free through the 20th, after which you would have to buy it through iTunes (or wait for the DVD), so watch it soon. (Note that only the first two parts are live as of this posting; the third part will be up on the 19th.)

I can conceive of no reason not to give you the "full banner."

So it seems that Demonoid.com, in my estimation the very best thing about the internet, is back.

Create your own webcomic strip with the Strip Generator.

Not enough of the three people who read this blog know about James "The Amazing" Randi.

He's a former magician, and probably the most famous skeptic around. (My mother asks: "So he just really, really doesn't believe things?") Very clever, mom. He's a skeptic in that he questions fantastic claims. Uri Gellar, spoon-bender of the 70s, is his arch-nemesis.

Anyway, his current claim to fame is his $1M prize to anyone who can prove supernatural phenomenomena under controlled circumstances. You can even monitor the claims being made, like Christel Burghardt of Germany who claims the ability to make a person's hand grow "with the power of my brain and my soul." To date, no claimant has ever made it past preliminary testing.

You know what you're going to get when you click on penisland.net.

That's right... fine quality writing implements from Pen Island.

Um, that is what you thought of first, right?

Guts...
Guts and might...
Liftin' weights and feelin' all right!

It's a showdown...
Going downtown
You're gonna mess around...
Showdown...
Put your nose down...
SHOW-DOWN!

In the grand tradition of youforgotpoland.com, a website has sprung up in the aftermath of the Vice Presidential debate. According to Slate...

In response to a series of attacks from John Edwards on Cheney's tenure as CEO of Halliburton, the vice president said that Kerry and Edwards "know the charges are false. They know that if you go, for example, to factcheck.com, an independent Web site sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, you can get the specific details with respect to Halliburton." One problem with Cheney's rebuttal: He misspoke. He meant to say "factcheck.org.," rather than ".com." George Soros capitalized on Cheney's error, snatched up the URL, and now if you type "factcheck.com" into your browser, you get redirected to a page titled, "Why we must not re-elect President Bush: a personal message from George Soros."