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So, Obama Won. Hooray! But, being a liberal Californian, there's one other pressing matter yet to be finalized on this year's vote--Proposition 8, the ban on gay marriage that, if passed, will amend the state Constitution that will recognize only marriages between a man and a woman as valid marriages.

It's a close one, less than a 10% spread between the yays and the nays, with the people of California speaking with over--to quote director Greg Yaitanes (@GregYaitanes)--5 million votes of hate.

But the bigger question, upon looking at the ballot initiatives nationwide for various states, is how the fuck is this possible? I mean, we're California for crying out loud, the most liberal of liberals, the most forward thinking of forward thinking states. But while our rednecked bass-ackwards gay-hating douchebag half of the state is voting us into infringing upon human rights and equality, here's a roundup of what OTHER states are ALLOWING after the jump:

Even though EndeverafteR's myspace page says they're from Los Angeles, CA, those from Sacramento know that they're really from the City Of Trees.

Glam rock and hair metal with a modern twist is what makes up this band's chemistry, which is a bit different than their roots, when they were called just Endever, which was a more moody, morose sound. Oddly, the band's wikipedia page doesn't mention the band before the name change.

Love 'em or hate 'em, either way, Sacramentoans will be surprised to see them in the new 20 song freebie track pack for Rock Band 2, known as the Harmonix Gift Horse Track Pack, if you're going by the Kotaku brand of reality.

Hit the jump to see the whole track list, and the video for their song, "I Wanna Be Your Man", coming to Rock Band 2 on November 4th.

Good ol' Revision3, the internet geek's favorite high-budget webshow company, has laid off some staff. With this comes a cut of some shows. What shows? Well, PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy to start, as well as PopSiren with Sarah Lane, and everybody's favorite East Coast-er, Wine Library TV with Gary Vaynerchuk. Sad sad sad. Not only does this impact the people laid off, but I think it's got some really negative impacts for Revision3.

I've recently become pretty into Coheed & Cambria's epic-ness. Not just the music, but the lyrics and the universe that is the source material for the albums, Claudio's comic series, The Amory Wars. While I've been a huge Coheed fan for a while now, I've only just begun to delve into the canon of their story, revolving around Coheed Kilgannon, his wife Cambria Kilgannon, and their son Claudio (aka The Character). This story has the epic scope of Star Wars, but I'd venture to say it's a bit more dark and introspective. And the band will be performing all four albums in the Co&Ca saga live, in their entirety. And it's sold out. I would do pretty much ANYTHING for tix to all four nights and hotel stay for the trip. I'm serious.

Some key personnel from Google have left the Mountain View, CA tech haven in search of their own Valley Gold. Again. This one, however, has a decent chance. Cuil is purported to be the largest search engine in the world, claiming to index three times as many pages as Google, and ten times as many as Microsoft's engine. But... Something here doesn't look right. Or at least, is a big tech bug that is screaming to be fixed. Cuil doesn't seem to know a lot about a lot! What do I mean by that? Pics after the jump.