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There are ways to kill projects you don’t want to work on without saying no. You can give the project “death by price tag,” as did Alaska’s state IT guys when ordered to produce evidence that could only hurt their home state’s image. Examining one state employee’s inbox for emails sent to Sarah Palin’s husband, Todd, would take six hours, they claimed; multiply that by 16,000 employees, at $73.87 an hour, and you get a $15,364,960. (It’s math that will only fool a journalist, not an IT guy who’s familiar with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, SMTP logs, and journaling file systems.) But think twice, guys. Billionaire George Soros once pledged to use his wealth to get Bush out of office.
Yeah, we knew he’d bail early. But what happens if the Obama-struck news media decides to foot the bill? If you’re right that there’s nothing to see, you’ll be searching her mails until you retire. Wrong, and you’ll need another excuse soon. (Photo by AP/David Zalubowski)
The debates are over, and we’re in the home stretch to election day. Since campaign ads are obviously full of crap, that means the only ways left to decide who you should vote for 
Someone has created a fake Facebook page for Sarah Palin, and unlike most of the mock social-network profiles I’ve seen, the author actually got the details right. That must have taken more time than I can imagine having. It has to be all about job creation, indeed. Fake Sarah Palin’s page:
Asked about possible candidates to serve as his Treasury secretary, John McCain said in Tuesday’s presidential-candidate debate that Meg Whitman was a top candidate. His running mate, Sarah Palin, loves to talk about putting the state jet on eBay (even though, as is all too typical for eBay sellers these days, it didn’t actually result in a sale). Whitman’s record at eBay is mixed; she probably stayed three years too long. But since we’re on the topic, why not put all the worthless mortgage securities the government is buying on eBay? The listing fees alone will be a major boon to the Silicon Valley economy.
Playboy capitalist Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will take your $200,000 to book a brief trip to space. But when offered $1 million cash upfront to let an unnamed pornographer film some zero-gravity, superatmospheric nookie with the futurist-fetish SpaceShipTwo cabin as a backdrop, the space-tourism startup declined. Which leaves us here at Valleywag nothing to look forward to on the smut market 
Wired rounds up eight geeky questions they’d like to see answered at tonight’s vice presidential debates. Their suggestions focus mainly on issues that will affect the progress of technology, privacy, and censorship in the future administration, so in the spirit of the debate’s open format, we’re wondering: What tech questions would you ask the candidates? Let’s hear about the tech topics that matter most to you in the comments. Photo by 
After announcing a multimillion-dollar campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Microsoft 