Are you going to the 20 year anniversary party for Yahoo! in DC next Tuesday, May 19th? Because we are.

#NATIONAL D-Day in photos; This 93 year old man is parachuting into Normandy again in full dress; And just one more D-Day story for you; Don’t make Kevin Spacey go all Frank Underwood on your ass; Will Obama wrestle a bear next?; Those curls are intimidating the world; And yet, …

Meet Michael Beckerman. He’s the President & CEO of the Internet Association, representing America’s leading Internet companies and their global community of users. He caught up with us today to let us know more about the Internet Association’s First Annual Congressional Internet Freedom Award. This is important if, for example, you’d like House of Cards to continue streaming at a high quality, or if you want to show off your collection of animal gifs in an email to your mom. Read on here.

A brave cartographer mapped out the entire internet. Yes, Tumblr is in the Hipster sea, Anonymous has their own island, there’s a Stalking Straight (guess what that’s nearby) and Google has a land of indexes. You can’t out-geek this guy. Pretty amusing and worth close observation with above link. h/t …

It is not a big truck.

Mashable’s Geoff Livingston: Social Media: The New Battleground for Politics Control of the House of Representatives hangs in the balance of the 2010 Congressional election. A recent forecast published on The New York Times website anticipates a two-out-of-three chance for a change in power. The election has become a war, …

We’re fine with this. [we could use a break] President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and …

We’re that close… The 2010 World Cup starts on June 11th, and one of the best ways to keep up on the soccer will be to watching it streaming live. Here’s where you can find the World Cup soccer matches streaming online. [h/t offzen] ESPN 3 is the online streaming …

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

If you’ve been reading the coverage surrounding Obama’s totally awesome new YouTube video, you’d think internet did not exist pre-Obama.  And just when we were certain that Al Gore was going to appear at Obama’s inauguration and officially pass the torch of the tubes, we realized, that’s not the case. …

NY Times: From Myspace to YourSpace Myspace was sold for $580 million and is expected to have $800 million in revenue in 2008.

Here’s a test sure to piss off everyone in Beaumont, Texas.  Rate charge them to use the internet machine.