It’s just plain great to have the official White House photographer putting stuff on Flickr all the time — it is great for democracy, it is great for voyeurs, and it is especially great for independent websites lacking the budget for, say, an Associated Press membership. But, because Flickr is technically “part of the Internet,” these noble images from the White House have a completely typical wasteland of comments beneath each picture. Why does the Internet hate anything nice? MORE »

Our pretend buddy and former colleague Will Leitch left the sports blog Deadspin last week. As he invented that popular website and has a reputation for being an agreeable human being — rare for the Internet — we were interested in his parting words. Here are some of them. MORE »

1996 called, and it wants its crappy GeoCities “home page” back where it belongs, in 1996. Here is the one and only monument to the great movement of angry middle-aged white ladies who managed to graduate high school: 35,000 of them got together and built the world’s lamest website — you must visit it; the letters blink on and off! — with the memorable domain name of “hcsfjm.com,” which stands for “hot cum sandwich for John McCain.” MORE »

OMFG the Paultards flooded online polls again after the CNBC debate and the mean CNBC people took down the polls because Ron Paul won with 75%. Try some FREEDOM, fascists! [Daily Paul]