Cultural melange.

* David Gill reviews Christopher Miller's fictionalized biography of Philip K. Dick, A Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, for Boing Boing.

* Judy Han's dissertation on Korean-American Christian missionaries and U.S. imperialism is available in comic form. (Via @barbarahui.)

* A nine-word story that will take one thousand years to read. Kottke says this problem is just crying out for good old-fashioned American know-how.

* The five people still watching Heroes will be devastated when they find out Bryan Fuller's left again.

* NPR remembers Harvey Kurtzman and the heyday of Mad Magazine.

* Trending upward today: references to Paul Simon's "Kodachrome."

Late night links.

* Honeymoon destination for the stars Iceland accepts an IMF bailout, the first industrialized nation to receive one since the U.K. in 1976 (by some accounts) or South Korea in 1997 (by others).

* 270towin.com has your poll closing schedule for election night.

* Everyone is talking about tonight's revelation that the RNC has spent over $150,000 on clothing Sarah Palin and family. Why, that's almost 400 haircuts!

* John McCain has a rough day in Pennsylvania.



* But it's not all bad news for McCain—rumors abound of a leaked Obama internal poll showing Obama up by only two points.