Links for Wednesday April 8^th, 2009

• FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Will Iowans Uphold Gay Marriage?: More interesting analysis from Nate Silver, which basically re-affirms Kevin's point -- that the US is going to trend in favor of gay marriage, over time. The difference is that this is backed by an actual regression model. :)

• Boxee gains an app store, to appear on hardware in 2010 - Ars Technica: Of all the competitors vying for control of the living room, I feel that only Boxee is trending in the right direction. If they can keep improving it, 2010 could be a mighty interesting time to be deciding how to pipe content into your TV.

• How GM Crushed Saturn | Newsweek Business: Reading the sad tale of Saturn, I'm left to wonder -- has the decades of combined stupidity of the UAW and GM management left the company in such a wretched state, that it simply cannot be saved?

• A Visit to id Software on Vimeo: Cool video from late '93, showing a pre-release version of Doom. Interesting to see a glimpse of id Software behind the scenes, before Doom went on to become a monster hit (that would suck most of my free time in '94 and '95).

• YouTube - Nathan Fillion on Bonnie Hunt 3/11/09: Great appearance by Nathan Fillion on Bonnie Hunt's new talk show (which I totally didn't know about -- thanks Whedonesque!).