If you don't know what the Webby's are, you need to start watching more Internet. The Webbies (13rd annual, baby…that's how long the Internet has been around for!) recognize the best of the best in the world wide web, including magazine sites, art agencies, viral videos, and original content.

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Ask the Editor "Talk to the Times" was particularly enlightening this Sunday, what with Andrew Rosenthal accidentally revealing his awesome deflection skills when it comes to talking about women.

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The poor little St. Lucian had no idea what hit her.

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Kind of amazing: Madonna, fresh off her Sticky and Sweet and Jesus tour, settled down in a "13-bedroom, four-floor, Georgian-style townhouse" on the Upper East Side (81st, to be precise). You want to see the floorplan? Cool, Cityfile has you covered:

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A brilliant smartass after our own heart has devised the best way yet to let the Twitter Army know their incessant "tweeting" is nothing but stinky hot air any asshole can crank out: an office chair that automatically Twitters farts. Beautiful.

Joey Potter is back, you guys! The role that made Katie Holmes famous before she was just a person of interest in the tabloids for marrying into a cult is having a re-emergence in the form of grungy mid-90s clothes and sloppy posture. Katie was photographed leaving her dance studio in perfect Dawson attire, making us long for the days when life was simpler and the biggest thing we had to worry about was Pacey's crush on the teacher.

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Remember Jake DeSantis, the AIG executive who very publicly and very dramatically resigned from the troubled insurance giant with a wordy letter he sent to both his bosses and the New York Times? The Times ran the letter under the title "Dear A.I.G., I Quit!"

Well, one month later, DeSantis remains gainfully employed at AIG, despite his angry, angry letter. This is what's called "lying."

ASSME (The American Society for Shitcanned Media Elites and brainchild of former Radar editor Aaron Gell) finally has their website up and running, making them the new "it" blog to add to your RSS feed. Especially if you like reading the unemployed musings of micro-celebrities let go by Nick Denton who now spend their days getting yelled at by their therapists. (They can still afford therapists??)

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Just as no human is 100% evil (even Hitler liked to paint!), so too is there human being capable of being as outlandish and self-absorbed as the tabloids paint Lindsay Lohan out to be. Exhibit A: Lindsay knows how to make fun of herself, in this personal ad created for Funny or Die:

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Isn't it, oh, let's say, funny when New York liberals arbitrarily latch on to some far-fetched piece of "injustice" and then spread it around Twitter and the blogosphere to gaggles of their catatonically liberal friends? It's like high school but with less rational thought and faster moving gossip.

Schoolchildren were all we could think of when we saw that the new cause célèbre amongst internet activists is a Popeyes Chicken commercial starring "Annie the Chicken Queen." Annie is a black woman who speaks with a Southern drawl and loves Popeyes' chicken. Racism! Or, y'know, pretty much the standard fried chicken spokesperson for the past few decades…

Why is everyone so outraged all of a sudden?

Hey, remember when the stock market crashed and suddenly no one you went to college with had a job anymore? Well thank god for Barack Obama, and his team of "behavioral economists" that he's been vetting since pretty much the beginning of his campaign. Because you see, the traditional theories of economy (Chicago style?) is that people are these perfect little machines that make rational decisions when it comes to the market. Except, as we've all learned too late, it's all about consumer confidence, baby. So Obama's team of Freakonomics has taken it upon themselves to draw up a new Wall Street standard.

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This (NSFW) photo was new to us, but it's apparently decades old. Do you think it depicts Marlon Brando blowing his longtime childhood friend?

The April issue of French Elle is themed "Stars Without Makeup"—no makeup or Photoshopping for any of the issue's three cover models: Monica Belluci, Eva Herzigova and Sophie Marceau.

Here's a look at the covers juxtaposed with photos of each starlet all done up. The verdict: human women can be beautiful without glorified paint all over their faces.

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You know, we have enough racism and intolerance in the world without people blatantly looking for it where it doesn't exist. Like in a totally boring Popeye's commercial that some bloggers have taken upon themselves to decide is super-racist. Because it's a black woman talking about fried chicken. Oh come on already.

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This video of a lady on the Britain's Got Talent (The British version of American Idol, which you would assume was already the X-Factor. In any case, all three somehow involve Simon Cowell because he is just that good at his job) singing Les Mis impressively has become more viral than a case of HPV in off-campus senior housing. Is it because we love an anti-hero: Susan Boyle, the portly, middle-aged walking joke, who manages to turn the whole thing around with her amazing rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream." Or is it something else…

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