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Earlier this week, We Made This heaped praise on the internet’s favorite celebrity tech enthusiast’s search for the Gutenberg press, and made me green with envy. Now it’s available on YouTube, though I have no idea how long that will last.

(via Textism)

Slate’s Daniel Engbar engages in a little thought experiment about a primary season in which publicizing poll results is illegal. What’s sounds uselessly imaginary actually ends up being an interesting and useful exploration of all the major theories about how polling may affect real voting. It’s especially interesting in light of my last post.

Anyone who’s following along (probably a small number, I would concede) recognizes that it’s crunch time in the campaign to be a major party’s nominee for president. Iowa’s caucus and New Hampshire’s primary are both happening within this week. Recently:

• Huckabee’s raised a few eyebrows with his odd handling of a negative ad his campaign had made about Romney (he stopped it from airing, but showed it to the press)
• Dennis Kucinich (every liberal’s favorite Dem) told his supporters to go Obama in the IA caucus
• McCain’s resurgence in NH is making Romney battle against irrelevance just as Huckabee has neutered him in Iowa

All those stories and more are covered (and well) at Time’s “The Page by Mark Halperin.”