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This page is far from the only one that isn't available!"The average life of a Web page is about a hundred days. Strelkov's 'We just downed a plane' post lasted barely two hours. It might seem, and it often feels, as though stuff on the Web lasts forever, for better and frequently for worse. . . . No one believes any longer, if anyone ever did, that 'if it's on the Web it must be true,' but a lot of people do believe that if it's on the Web it will stay on the Web.

Just what connection do I see between Smelly Shelly and "Moneybags Mikey" Khodorkovsky?Man with a microphone (but is anyone listening?): Ex-oligarch, ex-convict Mikhail Khodorkovsky "has grandly declared that he would guarantee Putin's safety if he left power peacefully."by KenLast night, in Part 1 of this two-part "Maybe 'Smelly Shelly' Silver is answerable to the laws we have after all" seri

In his current "Cartoon Lounge" video, Bob decides, while clearing out his old office, that there's no way he's tossing the album from his bar mitzvah in 1957 at the Hotel Pierre, where he "made out like a bandit."by KenWould it be fair to guess that most readers have had the experience of an office move on the job?

by Ken"Got this e-mail the other day," writes New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, adding, "It’s not the first of its kind."

This cartoon (click on it to enlarge) from the current New Yorker doesn't strike me as all that funny, but it does represent a sort of royal take on the idea of making lemonade when life gives you lemons, which is a subject of the post that follows.by KenI like that old saying about how when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. I don't mean to say that it has often served as practical advice for me.

Yes, fine, but is Aris really the problem?by KenYou'll be relieved to hear that I don't plan to keep you here long.

If you really want to, you can watch Episode 5 of The Cartoon Lounge here."Any legal resident of the United States or Canada (except residents of the province of Quebec), Australia, United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, age eighteen or over can enter, except employees, agents, or representatives of Sponsor or any other party associated with the development or administration

While thinking about The New Yorker's announcement of its new online paywall system, I saw Gay Talese talk about the new 50th-anniversary edition of his chronicle of the building of the Verrazano Bridge in conversation with the NYT's Sam Roberts at the NY Transit Museum.by KenOkay, the time has come. We knew it was going to happen.

Yes, the tireless David Sipress is still manning The New Yorker's "Daily Cartoon" beat. (You can click on today's offering to enlarge it.)by KenI know I'm taking a certain liberty in tacking David Sipress's New Yorker "Daily Cartoon" for today onto a post that's actually concerned with getting tough on ebola. But really, terrorism, ebola, it's all the same thing, isn't it?

"Edward Snowden: The game plan for the NSA leak"New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer talks to the NSA leaker, somewhere in Moscow.by KenAs New Yorker features director Daniel Zalewski explains in his introduction to the interview with Kim Dotcom below, when he learned that this year's New Yorker Festival would attempt remotely connected virtual interviews with subjects unable to be onsite, he immediately thought of two people: former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, from somewhere in Russia; and Internet ultra-entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, from his compound in Auckland, New Zealand, where he has remaine