Infowars

SimVote: So the Americans are having an election. You probably want to know who’s going to win. Well, the professor’s DeLorean is in the shop, so you’ll have to rely on something else to predict the future—quantitative analysis. 270toWin, named after the number of electoral college seats needed to clinch a presidency, runs thousands of simulations a day based on polls, historical election data and a whole soup of other numbers. In fact, you can run a simulation yourself, and in seconds see a plausible election outcome that always seems to end with President Obama at www.270towin.com.

Piratical: Make no mistake, movie piracy is bad, immoral and wrong and contributes to economic chaos and tooth decay. But if you were a big time movie studio, wouldn’t you want to know what movies are the biggest hits among broke students with broadband Internet? Torrentfreak’s weekly Top 10 lets you know that Indiana Jones is number one with downloaders, but Iron Man is holding steady. Get the RSS feed at torrentfreak.com/category/dvdrip/feed/.

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