John McCain’s running mate thinks that the Constitution protects political candidates from being criticized by the press.

The latest Futurama movie, Bender’s Game, is released in a few days and as usual it’s already on BitTorrent. However, Matt Groening has included a nice extra on the DVD - a pretty amusing parody on one of the classic anti-piracy messages.

The Hillsborough GOP Chair, David Storck, distributed an email saying the early voters are a threat. That’s because “car loads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes for Obama. After all he is black- no experience or or accomplishments but he is black.” It also contains all the McCain lies and smears about Obama.

New research suggests that as many as 1 in 17 men living today on the coasts of North Africa and southern Europe may have a Phoenician direct male-line ancestor.

The Lakers have reached a four-year contract extension with center Andrew Bynum worth about $58 million.

Ralph Cioffi and Matt Tannin have become household names in the Am Law 100 world since June, after the feds indicted them for fraud for allegedly lying to investors about the state of two Bear Stearns hedge funds that collapsed in June 2007.

It can be scary soliciting photos from Wired.com readers and not knowing what to expect, let alone Halloween costume photos. Sure, some were creepy in all the wrong ways, but our favorite 10 submissions put our fears to rest. Click through the gallery to see the best geeky costumes our readers have to offer, from Predator to iPod silhouette girl.

NASA rolled out its next-generation space capsule here Wednesday, revealing a bulbous module that is scheduled to carry humans back to the moon in 2020 and eventually onward to Mars. Unlike the space-plane shape of the shuttles, the new Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle looks strikingly similar to the old Apollo space capsule from 1969.

Apple recently recruited a top chip designer from IBM, resulting in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the executive from taking his knowledge as “IBM’s top expert in Power architecture and technology” to the Mac maker.

The gigantic, annual pop culture convention Comic-Con can be many things: amazing, exciting, insane, overhyped, controversial . . . and heartbreaking. As Clive Young’s terrific new book Homemade Hollywood reveals, a controversy over fan films at the Con almost destroyed aspiring filmmaker Sandy Collora’s career.