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Indie film “The Graduates,” shot for $95,000 in Ocean City, Maryland, includes a two-disc soundtrack now available for free. Just enter “GOGRADS” at checkout for 24 tracks from up-and-coming indie bands.

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An anti-Palin ad shows the brutality of aerial wolf hunting.

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How can I get you to never make that face again?

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CULTURE BUZZ: Did you notice all the short loud people are disappearing? That’s because the kids are back in school! Except the Chicago students who are skipping school tomorrow to protest unequal education funding. Time to get out my bumper sticker: “School’s in session, drive crazy again.”

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1. Chicago Students to Skip First Day, Lobby for Cash
2. How to Survive the First Day of School
3. Back to School by the Numbers
4. Google’s Back to School Logo

POLITICS BUZZ: VP candidate Sarah Palin announced that her 17-year-old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant (which takes care of the rumor that she was eight months pregnant with Trig four months ago). Let’s hear it for abstinence-only education!

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1. To Rebut Rumors, Palin Says Daughter, 17, Pregnant
2. The Truth About Those Sarah Palin Pregnancy Coverup Rumors!
3. It’s About Choice
4. Sarah Palin’s Baby Conspiracy

POLITICS BUZZ: A blogger on Daily Kos accuses VP candidate Sarah Palin of faking a pregnancy so she could pretend her daughter’s baby was her own. The supporting evidence: Tons of photos of Palin looking very normal when she was supposedly seven months pregnant with Trig, plus her strange behavior around the birth. Even if this story is bull, will Palin have to release photos of little Trig crowning to shut down the rumor?

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1. Cached Version of the Daily Kos Story
2. Sarah Palin is Not the Mother
3. Trig Palin to the Rescue
4. CNN’s Roberts Thinks VP Palin Would Neglect Disabled Child

A blogger caught Don Fowler, the former national chairman of the Democratic National Committee, joking about Gustav hitting New Orleans on Monday and saying, “That just demonstrates God’s on our side.” Just some dark humor or a career-ending scandal? Is it fair to use a hurricane as a political tool?

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1. Fowler Fouls: Hurricane is God’s Favor to Democrats
2. Michael Moore Says Gustav is Proof There is a God
3. McCain May Postpone Convention
4. New Orleans Ports Brace for Hurricane Gustav
5. Bush Weighs Skipping Party Convention Due to Storm

Where will we be in fifty years? Probably hanging out on “Biggest Island Available” living in igloo condos. Nozone Magazine stole this poster from the secret Inconvenient Truth outtakes.

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1. Nozone Magazine

PH For America want to be the Swift Boaters of 2008. The 527 organization’s TV ad “Sermon on the Mount” got 2 million views on YouTube since June 25. The ad, which the group says will also appear on TV after the Democratic National Convention, features Obama demonstrating why not every verse of scripture can be used in American government. The narrator charges Obama with mocking the Bible. So wait, PHFA supports stoning disobedient children?

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1. PH For America
2. More of Obama’s Bible Speech
3. Dr. Dobson Blasts Obama
4. West Wing: Bible Quotes
5. “How can an evangelical Christian vote for Barack Obama?”
6. Why the Christian Right Fears Obama

CULTURE BUZZ: Enter your name, and How Many of Me tells you how many people in the U.S. share it. So, only 198 Nick Douglases left for me to kill.

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1. How Many of Me
2. Baby Name Trend Graphs
3. Census Search
4. Popular Baby Names
5. Name Meanings

TV BUZZ: If a new Muppet film goes well, Disney might bring the show back. Forgetting Sarah Marshall writer Jason Segel, who’s writing the film, is already talking about writing a show too. So maybe that explains these cute little official-looking Muppet clips on YouTube last month.

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1. Muppet Show to Return to TV After 27 Years
2. Statler and Waldorf: Meh
3. Swedish Chef: Habanera
4. Beaker: Ode to Joy
5. Gonzo: Classical Chicken
6. Sam the Eagle: Stars and Stripes Forever
7. Muppet Wiki

Another chart from the artist: Universal Comedy Flowchart

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Yes. Yes, it’s a coincidence. So now we’ve solved THAT.

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POLITICS BUZZ: A one-stop microsite with recent poll results, electoral college predictors, and feeds from Twitter, blogs, and the news. “Perspctv” is my new infoporn homepage til November 4, but I’m also checking these three other sites.

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The Best Links:

1. perspctv
2. New York Times Election Guide
3. RealClearPolitics Polls
4. Historical Bush Approval Rates

It’s the new “I Like Turtles”! After weatherman Warren Dean signs this starstruck yokel’s giant pin with Warren’s face on it, the weirdo can’t stop staring giddily at him and has to be pushed out of the way twice during a live weather report at the Saskatoon fair. “What’s the frequency, Warren? WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY?”

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If the Very Short List gets a hold of this, one of the circles in the Venn diagram will be YouTube artist Paperlilies reading angry comments from her “Sarcasm” video.

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One level in, I’m convinced this game is a cruel joke you’re all playing against me.

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High gas prices make his private jet too pricey, says Diddy in his latest YouTube clip, which he made while boarding an American Airlines flight. Man, if things get worse he’ll have to eat at Burger K— oh.

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The Best Links:

1. Diddy’s YouTube
2. Diddy’s Run-in With Traffic Cop
3. High Gas Prices Make Airlines Screw Customers

This European ad shows elements as party-goers acting out a series of metaphors for chemical reactions. Anyway you get to see a fat guy bury his face in Jello. I don’t know how they’ll tackle quantum physics, but I hope it involves kids fightin’.

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1. Marie Curie Actions
2. Second Version With Electricity

POLITICS BUZZ: Obama supporters sign up to get a text from the campaign when he picks a VP. Someone finds a way to spoof texts from the campaign. Hilarity ensues. One poor bastard thought the Obama campaign actually wrote this: “DUDE, IT’S OBAMA HERE, I CHOO CHOO CHOOSE YOU TO BE MY VP, DAWG.”

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1. Freak Out Your Friends With Fake Obama VP TXT
2. “So last night I got a text message from the number 62262”
3. HoaxMail, Cheap Text Spoofing to Any Carrier
4. Spoof a Text Through Verizon
5. Spoof a Text Through T-Mobile
6. Spoof a Text Through Sprint