The New York Times is a venerable institution. One thinks of a tall, imposing gray building where Important Work goes on and then The News happens. Unfortunately, with the new generation of bloggers getting all the media hype lately, the NYT is starting to look a little stodgy by comparison. Like your uncle who says he likes Eminem, Sunday Styles is laughably outdated when it's competing against an army of itchy trigger-fingered Mac users who update their stories on an hourly basis.

That's why it's sort of cute, sort of sad, that Virginia Heffernan decided to write a complimentary piece to her article about Rielle Hunter's web series on Edwards, with a list of her favorite "web serials." Some of the shows she name-drops are actually pretty good (Clark and Michael, the strangely censored You S— at Photoshop, last summer's Tight Shots) but with few exceptions this listicle would read as a much-watch for web series that peaked anywhere from six months to two years ago. That's a major offense for those in the Twitter set, who would never dare to blog stories from the previous week, let alone month. A for effort, Heffernan, but here are some better examples of shows that are still circulating (for now):


Wainy Days- David Wain directed Wet Hot American Summer and was part of the short-lived Stella on Comedy Central and The State on MTV. His five minute quests for love have the same irreverent, absurdist humor that made those shows so funny.

Get Your War On-David Rees' political comic, now rotoscoped!

The Line- Featuring essentially every funny person in New York, guaranteed.

And hey, if none of those make you giggle, head over to Superdeluxe before it shuts down forever. They have some great stuff.