An Earthly Realm for a Soccer God - NYTimes.com. Maradona really is a demagogue in Argentina. There was an enormous number of Maradona tattoos at Boca.

Video: Make iPhone ringtones with iTunes 8.0. damn is that overly complicated.

YouTube - Palin Scatting. someone laid down a jazz piano track to remix it with Sarah Palin and put it on youtube. and it works so well.

globeandmail.com: ‘The masked avengers’ and the great Sarah Palin prank. these guys really have nailed a lot of really famous people.

Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging. that’s awesome. no ridiculous plastic blister packs and no waste on an extra box or packaging.

I.O.U.S.A.: The Movie has posted a 30 minute version of the moving explaining the budget, savings, trade, and leadership deficit in America and how enormous the problem is. superbly done info graphics and absolutely terrifying numbers.

JCVD - Trailer. Paul saw this at TIFF and said it was quite good.

McGill Athletics: OBIT: Robillard captained, coached hockey, football. Rock navigated bombers in WWII when he was 21, coached champion teams at McGill and OttawaU, and was a hell of a storyteller. He was a giant amongst men and will be sorely missed.

Southwest Has First Loss in 17 Years - NYTimes.com. It’s because they bet that fuel prices would remain high. damn.

Why White Supremacists Support Barack Obama - Esquire. i love how one of can call Obama “stupid” without being ironic. I wonder how many years these guys edited the Harvard Law Review? via amanda.

Why it pays to hang tough in a take-no-prisoners market - Oct. 28, 2008. John Bogel, who in recent books said we shouldn’t expect more than 6-7% return from US markets, is saying that buying now could return up to 10% annually for the next decade.

How Porsche took the wind out of the hedge funds’ sails - Telegraph. Porsche basically owns VW now and in doing so created a short-squeeze: “All day yesterday, the panic to get out compounded the situation: at one stage, VW temporarily became the world’s biggest company by market value”. phenomenal article.

KOLOR | Commmunication Design. congrats lukas on the new site. i like the horizontal sliding case studies.

Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard. from the guy who did fluid. basically just gives you a pluggable safari.

TheStar.com | McCain: Ted Stevens should quit. just check out the Palin quote in the middle of the article. it must be laughable for the guy who has to transcribe her remarks. it’s sheer run-on nonsense.

Downtown slowdown: Seattle, Bellevue building projects take a hit | Seattle Times. i’ve been gone 4 months and there’s already a ton of new condos in cap hill.

The Associated Press: McCain gains backing of Joe the Plumber. what a surprise. idiotic plumber endorses someone who will screw him over at a flag store. really? a flag store?

InfoQ: Rockstar Memcaching. Tobi’s talk from rubyfringe.

YouTube - Fox News’ Barbara West vs. Joe Biden. “are you joking? is that a joke?”. I think Biden handled himself perfectly.

Finding a Gold Mine in Digital Ditties - NYTimes.com. hilarious. this guy has won a dozen online contests for self-produced ads.