Here's What's Awesome: Abe Lincoln is a Superhero!

Here's What's Awesome brings you new awesome links each week, but this special Presidents Day edition may have topped them all. These links are so awesome... well, could they restore the Union after years of battles and hardship? Raise a nation out of depression and world war? No, those things were already done. But they're great reading on a Presidents Day, or any other day, and maybe that's enough:

Next month: Martin Van Buren vs. The Green Goblin
Seeing as it is Presidents Day, our first awesome link involves the man named the best of the lot by a C-SPAN survey of historians. Yep, Honest Abe is making the most of his bicentennial - the current president honored him in Springfield, and he's been all over TV lately (check out the new History Channel doc that uses 3D imaging of old Lincoln photos to paste Abe's actual face into their reenactment scenes). But coolest of all is the new Abe Lincoln comic book, where the 16th President teams up with Captain America and Spider-Man. You will not see a more jaw-dropping comic book cover if you live to be 200. [Wired]

And you don't have to dress up like one of those Guitar Hero characters
It seems like every social networking site is trying to get into the music game these days; MySpace and iMeem were at the start of the wave, but now there's even a music add-on for Twitter; we'll launch the Here's What Music is Awesome private music service within the next millennium. And they're all following roughly the same model of free, embeddable, share-with-your-friends online music - all except StereoFame, which uses a point-based game system to encourage you to try new songs and share the ones you like with others. The novel concept will still have to deliver the musical goods, of course, and will have to prove that the points and gameplay are compelling enough to get people to come back. But there's certainly potential - online music and social media are both hot, of course, and we learned from The Online Game Formerly Known As Scrabulous that people do like using social media sites to play games with their friends. [NoiseAddicts]

And make sure you don't accidentally swat them, either
One of the easiest ways to save energy is to regularly turn off your "energy vampire" appliances, items with clocks and remote controls that run even when "off." The BugPlug makes this easy by turning the items off for you. It uses heat and motion sensors to see if anyone's around; if not, it shuts down the items you've plugged into it. This was originally designed for kids, which explains the cute bug design, but it could be promising for those of us who are too dang lazy to turn a power strip off. [Inhabitat]

Now it's your turn: share an awesome link in the comments. Doing so will protect you from an angry Abe Lincoln and his superhero buddies.

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