This guy found a good way to vent his anger.

As I find things throughout the day, I will update this post. Comments are encouraged. Tell your own story or leave a link.

Here we go. Today will be interesting. Heck, depending on how things go in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin, we may spend the next few days (not weeks, I hope) sorting all this out. The polls (Electoral-Vote.com, Princeton, Slate) show things all tied up, but who knows if we're even counting right? (Check out the Zogby SMS Poll) Also, lots of good analysis at Mystery Pollster.

I stumbled across "The Post-Election Peace Pledge" and I like it. It's actually probably harder than it sounds. The pledge:

After the election results are in, I promise to:
- Support the President, even if I didn't vote for him.
- Criticize the President, even if I did vote for him.
- Uphold standards of civilized discourse in blogs and in media while pushing both to be better.
- Unite as a nation, putting country over party, even as we work together to make America better.

Courts in Ohio have ruled to block challengers from the voting sites in Ohio. Challengers have been reinstated. Also, a blog has been setup to track the suppression of voters in Ohio.

Gay-baiting in Florida and Michigan.

Electronic markets like Tradesports.com and Iowa Electronic Markets provide an alternative to polling (background: Rocky Mountain News, Jane Galt)

Rhenquist is, of course, looming. His absence "suggests thyroid cancer at its most serious," says the WP.

Gotta watch Drudge.

11:30am PST: Bomb threats at polls in Phoenix? (via Boing Boing)

"Exit Polls: What you should know" from the Mystery Pollster, and "Calling the Election: A Primer" from Wired News.

E-voting failure in Florida; 13,000 votes to be recounted. At least in Florida the machines create a paper record (unlike, ahem, California). Great. (via Slashdot Politics)

1:52 PST: AZ Central says Arizona voting going well.

2:49 PST: Slate is publishing exit poll numbers from the National Election Pool. These numbers are gathered by ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN and AP, and are not intended for raw public consumption. In fact, the subscribers to NEP have sworn not to share them and not call states early. But Slate is publishing them anyway, arguing that the process should be open and the information should be public.

3:58 PST: Earlier Drudge wrote that votes had been planted in certain Philly precincts; now we know that was simply a misreading of the machines by jumpy pollworkers (think odometer vs. trip meter).

Run your own scenarios: an Excel template for calculating electoral college results.

It all comes down to Ohio.

That's that, I think. Four more years.

Look up your local polling place based on your home address: My Polling Place. Technology is rad. Go vote, dudes!

Also: similar tech, scarier application: Fundrace Block Party. See which neighbors ponied up dough and who they gave it to.

Nucleus: a strangely addictive game with a conceptual basis in chemistry and the behavior of atoms and electrons and stuff.

I know that was the least exciting introduction to a video game ever, akin to inviting you to diagram increasingly complex sentences for points. But really, it's more fun than that.

So go, and be distracted.