From the Book of Obama, Chapter and Verse 1:

In thebeginning was Obama, Worker of light and the Hope of People unhappy with that which had made their Country great.

And Obama saw that the world was without Internet, and He knew such a world to be void and formless

So he decided to bestow upon the World the gift of Internet

And some said to Obama, “But Obama! the World already has Internet, as was bestowed upon us by the Gore, Great in his girth and his gift of hyperbole!”

But Obama heard them not; for He knew the world began with His ascension to the Promised Land of the office which He currently Holds

And so He bestowed upon them an Internet, giving it, through His power, for the first time to the People, though some still cried out that this gift was false…

There’s always been a creepy sense of vanguard-esque self-importance among the members of the Obama White House staff. Yesterday, we got more evidence of that, as the White House put out a press release declaring that this first year of Obama marks “the first time the activities at the White House Easter Egg Roll have been broadcast online” (screencap here in case of memoryholing).

The problem? George W. Bush’s White House started offering a live webcast of the Easter Egg Roll in 2002 (screencap here in case of memoryholing)

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Here’s an interesting, if unsurprising, little tidbit about the photos of President Obama on display at WhiteHouse.gov: they’re all uploaded to a folder called “hero.”

Take the one below for example:

If you’re using FireFox, right click on the photo and select “View Image.” Then, take a look at the url in your address bar, which should read: http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/624×351/P023009PS_dng_1.jpg (For those of you who can’t do this little exercise, I’ve grabbed a copy of the picture and posted it here with url properties displayed).

This is consistent for all of the featured photos of Obama on the new WH.gov site. For another example, here is Our Hero announcing former New Hampshire Senator Jim Jeffords Judd Gregg as his second nominee for Commerce Secretary (after the epic Bill Richardson whoopsie): http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/624×351/gregg_announcement.jpg

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