If the air seems to be crackling with excitement today, it might be because Google has just connected up Google Maps with the Voting Information Project (VIP) polling place data that it and Pew and JEHT have been working to compile. Hooray!; Text messages sent on Election Day that urge recipients to vote increase turnout by 4.6 percentage points, according a just-released study by CREDO Mobile and Student PIRGs New Voters Project; The Republican National Committee is eager to keep focus on how tight-lipped the Obama campaign has remained about its contributors who fall under the law's $200 mandatory disclosure mark. And so, yesterday, the RNC released a database of GOP small donors. The thing is, the thing doesn't actually work -- at least, not in any meaningful way; and a good amount more.

Cell phone service is coming to New York City's subways, which might seem like an arcane subject for us to cover, but check out the photo after the jump...