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January 25th, 2010, 16:40
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2010/01/screencap_2010-01-25_at_11.06.16_am.jpgWe know he's a BlackBerry fanboy (http://i.gizmodo.com/5126576/obama-still-steadfast-on-keeping-his-blackberry-theyre-going-to-pry-it-out-of-my-hands), an international iPod evangelist (http://gizmodo.com/5194233/president-obama-gives-queen-elizabeth-an-ipod-queen-one+ups-him), and a prolific YouTube vlogger (http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse), and a general nerd (http://gizmodo.com/5298070/john-hodgman-barack-obama-is-the-first-nerd-president), but now we have a new label for our POTUS: Internet addict (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012403014_2.html).
In 2010, to "use the internet (http://gizmodo.com/tag/theinternet/) like a normal adult" is to give in to a terrible, emotionless symbiosis from which you can never withdraw, so what's said here—that the president reads blogs, that he spends a lot of his day online, that he's the first president to have an internet connection at his desk—is less interesting that what's left unsaid: Does he laugh at memes? Does he comment? Does he troll?
And as the WaPo's anonymous source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012403014_2.html) so obviously wanted the world to ask, or else he/she would have worded things differently: Porntube or xHamster? [Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012403014_2.html) via Ed Bott (http://twitter.com/edbott/status/8193354219)]
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In 2010, to "use the internet (http://gizmodo.com/tag/theinternet/) like a normal adult" is to give in to a terrible, emotionless symbiosis from which you can never withdraw, so what's said here—that the president reads blogs, that he spends a lot of his day online, that he's the first president to have an internet connection at his desk—is less interesting that what's left unsaid: Does he laugh at memes? Does he comment? Does he troll?
And as the WaPo's anonymous source (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012403014_2.html) so obviously wanted the world to ask, or else he/she would have worded things differently: Porntube or xHamster? [Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/24/AR2010012403014_2.html) via Ed Bott (http://twitter.com/edbott/status/8193354219)]
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