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Space.com: Major Flare Today: Sun Kicks Up Biggest Storm in Years. It's coming right at us! Cool pictures.

The Game Canon and The 300 Games Every Game Developer (and Gamer) Should Know.

Andrew Leonard, Salon: Musical snares. Leonard gets screwed by proprietary DRM music formats (AAC versus WMA).

Me: Swing states at a glance. After yesterday's post on swing states I whipped up this table to show an overview of swing states as defined by the Swing State Project.

Edwards campaign: Interactive electoral vote map.

Pam Pelluck, New York Times: Libertarians Pursue New Goal: State of Their Own. Some of the Free Staters are already moving to New Hampshire. I was just reading some of their escapist freedom porn when this article came out.

Bush lies about the "Mission Accomplished" sign. Ooh, you are so busted!

Filmmaker Greg Allen looks at the White House's carefully produced photo-shoots. White House Stagecraft: Will this be on the DVD?

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt (via Slactivist). Wow, Mark Romanek has some cool music videos available online. Jesus, was the censored version of Closer that fucked up? I don't remember the crucified monkey.

New York Times graphic on presidential fundraising (fair-used).

This is cool. Bush in 30 Seconds is a political advertising contest by the MoveOn Voter Fund to create a 30 second anti-Bush ad (...except for telling people not to vote for him, which would be illegal!). The contest will be judged by a number of liberal artists and activists and the winner will be shown on TV during Bush's State of the Union address.

To enter, you actually have to make a video so I guess that leaves me out of it. I don't know jack about that. However, they've got an idea swap where you can suggest ads. This is something I've wanted to create for a while: a collaborative political ad creation forum, where people could suggest scripts, then create them together. The main site would showcase the final product, along with high-quality scripts and links to other organizations' creations.