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CNN reports that June Pointer, the youngest of the 80s music group The Pointer Sisters, died from cancer at the age of 52 last week. The Pointer Sisters had many hits in the ‘70s and ’80s, including I’m So Excited, Jump (For My Love), Slow Hand, and many more.

I didn’t know until recently that The Pointer Sisters were the vocalists for the Sesame Street Pinball Song, so in tribute to June Pointer, I just had to post a link to the YouTube video.

Note: I’ve removed the embedded player, as it takes too long to load and the static image is kind of ugly…

The Washington Post reports on How To Steal An Election:

It’s easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman. That’s because Vegas slots are better monitored and regulated than America’s voting machines, Freeman writes in a book out in July that argues, among other things, that [W] may owe his 2004 win to an unfair vote count. We’ll wait to read his book before making a judgment about that. But Freeman has assembled comparisons that suggest Americans protect their vices more than they guard their rights, according to data he presented at an October meeting of the American Statistical Association in Philadelphia.

The short article has a table comparing the regulation of Las Vegas slot machines to that of electronic voting machines. It’s unfathomable to me that this is allowed to happen…

  
You have to go and see all of the custom Simpsons action figures people have come up with, two of which I’ve included above. Hilariously obsessive (like I’m one to talk)… 😉

Check out this Google Video of one lucky man.

As a follow-up to my previous post about the i am 8-bit art show, I wanted to let you know that the i am 8-bit book is out. Also, IGN held a contest calling for more artwork inspired by the 8-bit gaming era; check out the winners here, one of which I’ve posted in the image above (Dig Dug’s Funeral by James Hakola)

Update: productdose.com has an article about the second annual i am 8-bit exhibit, including some images of the artwork in a flickr photoset. Very cool…

Weekly Echo displays news stories for each week via an array of images. Very nicely and artistically done…

I Love Cartoons! collects some really cool artistic interpretations of cartoon characters.

Before Garbage Pail Kids there were Wacky Packages, a series of trading cards that spoofed ads of everyday products. There is an official site, but Tom’s Wacky Packages has a lot more information and images.

Worldmapper is “a collection of world maps, territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.”

The Hive Group has integrated world population data from the CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia into a very cool World Population Treemap.