Earlier today, the President of the United States and the holder of the highest office in the land, Barack Obama, debuted the first, official Twitter account run by the President and the President alone. Because of how the internet works, hundreds of people immediately asked the President to please sit on my face, daddy. And because of how the Presidential Records Act works, every single one of those tweets, from “spank me” to “fist me,” is getting filed away in the official White House archives.

British Pathé, the enormous newsreel archive that has previously shared reported clips on everything from Beatlemania to Arnold Schwarzenegger, uploaded its entire collection of historical footage to its YouTube channel this week, all digitized in pristine HD format for your viewing pleasure.

Nirvana, the "alternative" rockers who recently reunited to shoot a very special homecoming video message for Virginia Tech's "Hoagies," first signed to Sub Pop Records in 1989. Fortunately, the Pacific Northwest label has kept the original paperwork around all these years and published that initial contract to Tumblr yesterday, which we've reposted below:

Do you need to access the fan webring for Boy Meets World's Rider Strong, but can't now that Geocities has been shut down? Fret not! The "Archive Team" is putting all 900 GB of Geocities into a publicly-available torrent. [via]

Google has put the complete archives of the Village Voice online, going back to 1955. So go while away the hours by traveling back to a New York with a fascist mayor, a groundbreaking music scene, and closeted gay people.

Just in case you missed this the first time around—and because today seems like an awfully fitting day for this sort of thing—our handy guide to coping with the fact that your investment bank/law firm/media company has decided you're redundant. [Cityfile]

Years ago—before the age of blogs—a young Will Leitch appeared on Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money. You may know Will as the blogger who brought Deadspin into the world, wrote some books, and who is now leaving the internet to be a columnist at New York. In 1997, though, he was a dude who just got dumped by his fiance and was now on television for some reason attempting a Woody Allen impression. Will wrote about the experience for the Black Table many moons ago, and now we see that the video is actually online. Amazing.