Unfocused linkblogging

Neat stuff I've run across this week:

• Wired profiles Neal Stephenson in advance of his next novel, Anathem.
  
• Take the McCain house tour!
  
• John Scalzi talks about the neurology of emotional reactions to written and visual fiction.
  
• Absolutely nothing has changed in the presidential race. Obama has a small but steady and significant lead. He has had a small but steady and significant lead for months.
  
• More than you ever wanted to know about the novelization of Gremlins, which I'm fairly sure I owned at one point in my preadolescence (which means it's got a good chance of still being in a box in my parents' basement).
  
• The Savage Dragon endorses Obama.
  
• Obama's reshaping the Democratic party.
  
• Bronze medal winners are happier than silver medal winners.
  

Random links

• Lawrence O'Donnell presents one scenario for settling the Democratic nomination fight.
• Science fair photos. I must remember to use the phrase "juicy beans" more often.
• Gender inequity in the new Horton Hears A Who movie.
• When did the present-day parts of Cryptonomicon take place? (Which strikes me as something of an impossible task, since the book clearly takes place in a world not-quite-just-like ours, with Attorney General Comstock, not Reno, the existence of Qwlghm, and the use of "Nippon" in lieu of "Japan"...)