I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.

›› Outgoing US President George Bush making little sense (as usual)

What a historic moment: Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States. His margin of victory will probably be absolutely stunning — as I write this, he is routing McCain 338-15 in the electoral vote count. While his election to the highest office might be a national catharsis of a failed Bush administration, it is just awesome that Americans voted for someone based on perceived ability and not on the colour of his skin. The real work, though, begins when his terms starts in January 2009; the huge international goodwill towards Obama will surely help America.

Oh yeah, I am so going to buy this poster as a memento. As do a lot of people outside the US, I too feel some strange excitement about what seems to be an upcoming new world order.

These are the same guys who were from that Budweiser television commercial eight years ago. Brilliant!

…and John McCain is a courier pigeon.

See more of this ‘Candidate = ‘ in this Flickr set. It’s all pretty funny (I am still laughing at the ‘McCain = Courier Pigeon’), but it is a bit disturbing when people start using material things to identify with people.

[Via Wired]

JULY 11, 2039: Bill Clinton, ninety-two, dies on the same day Chinese Democracy II is released.

›› Chuck Klosterman looks to the future on Esquire.com

Funny t-shirt from Eric Rewitzer, thought I think it might have looked better on a lighter, less muddy coloured t-shirt.

And speaking of Obama, it’s good to see him robustly elbowing back the Republican smear campaign.

Nice typographic/infographic video from Athletics and Good Magazine, but honestly, it’s not the most ground breaking motion graphics we have seen, is it?

I always wondered what a wolverine would sound like chewing through plywood. Now I know: like Sarah Palin “debating” Joe Biden.

›› Howard Fineman from Newsweek.com

The Design Observer asked ‘what would you do with the domain name designersforobama.org’ and Aaron Perry-Zucker answered with a Threadless-style Obama poster/visual communications site.

Jump into the sale while it’s still on.

‘Share’ is Facebookspeak for ‘advertise’. Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.

›› A fierce, detailed attack on Facebook on the Guardian

It is John Edwards’ voice that has been systematically excluded from the debate. It’s been excluded by the propaganda arm of the corporate elites who stand to lose the most if his campaign is successful.

›› The Daily Kos gets all riled up