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Valleywag editor Jackson West posing as her personal shopper, is looking for someone to serve as shrink, chef, personal assistant, filling-station attendant, agent, booker, and cheerleader. In other words, a boyfriend. [

Consider this: Ben Huh built a site that takes submissions of stupid cat pictures with pidgin English captions written across them. That site, I Can Has Cheezburger, pulls about 2.2 million pageviews a day. Like the HotOrNot guys — who sold their site for $10 million earlier this year — Huh is a lucky guy who's making bank off an obnoxiously simple idea. The delicious irony: According to the above excerpt from an interview Huh gave with Internet Superstar, he's completely allergic to cats. "If I pet a cat, which I can't resist, I immediately start crying. I get itchy in the face. I look like a diseased cheeseburger guy." Ben, we're oh so sorry to hear that. The full interview is embedded below.

The 50-and-up set form one of the fastest growing demographics of those looking for love online. That nugget of hope, care of Match.com CEO Jim Safka, comes tucked into Newsweek's Sex & the Single Boomer. While the Youngs, who've been barely weaned off of cruising Facebook for casual sex, may eyeroll at Web 1.0 matchmaking, and the Olds themselves scoff at the profitability of Web-based matchmaking, it looks they're going at it as sure as the kids today, with their Twitter hookups and their 150-mile-radius locally sourced organic condoms. The real difference? Baby boomers got over talking about it decades ago. (Photo via foundphotos)

So you know how in Sex and the City: The Movie, Carrie Bradshaw interviews, like, a bazillion young women trying to find a personal assistant before finally deciding on the sassy, "urban," but safe Jennifer Hudson? No? OK, well, if you saw the movie it was you'd know it was such an ordeal. And then you'd have sympathy for famous reporter and author Sarah Lacy — who, like Bradshaw, just found herself a personal assistant and sent a Twitter message about it last night. She writes:

tentatively happy times....i *might* have found the perfect personal assistant! SANITY MAY BE IN REACH!

We're happy for her! The tipster who spotted the message is not and even suggested a headline: "Sarah Lacy wants you to know she's important." But we already knew that!

While political pundits gasp with awe at the amount of money Barack Obama has been able to raise online, the leftist wonks at Alternet are ringing the alarm bell over the candidate's support of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act amendments pending in Congress. The bill would broadly expand executive powers to conduct warrantless wiretaps, as well as grant immunity to telcos which voluntarily participated in the illegal surveillance of American citizens at the current administration's request.

A group of supporters are lobbying the Democratic senator to change his position on the bill on his campaign social network, MyBO. The question is, will Obama actually take serious policy suggestions from supporters using the same website he's already using to mobilize volunteers and, more importantly, raise more cash than any presidential candidate in history? The Magic 8-Ball says "very doubtful." (Photo by AP/Jae C. Hong)

Tonight comedian and Phd Tim Lee’s will be performing his PowerPoint comedy routine, “Off the Charts” at the San Jose IMPROV. It’s like watching a YouTube video only live and you can laugh out loud without the guilt. Comedy, Darling and IFC.Com are also set to tickle your funny bone with the premiere of Mary Van Note’s ten episode series, “Gavin Really Wants Me,” at the Purple Onion Comedy Club. Join host Van Note on her quest to woo the ever coiffed and dreamy Mayor of San Francisco, Mr. Gavin Newsom. Tomorrow, scrap the flag football and celebrate your independence day with a throwback to tech’s early days with a TRON and Brainstorm double feature at the Castro! “Excuse me, did she just say a seminal dose of espionage, gaming, and a young Christopher Walken? Count me in!” Exactly. If none these events have the cultural cache of a Linux Users’ Group, do not fret. Your friends over at SF-LUG have you covered. Their monthly meeting is Sunday, July 6 from 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m at Javacat cafe. Now go play.

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Corporate greenmailer Carl Icahn, some old dude who was stupid enough to buy a lot of shares of Yahoo on the premise that Microsoft would buy the company after it said it wouldn't, wants four seats on Yahoo's board. Yahoo only prepared to reward his intelligence by offering him two, Kara Swisher reports. Why so stingy? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to clear the dead wood out of the boardroom. Make room! Our nominees for the axe:

• Roy Bostock: This guy is chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Can you imagine anyone more out of touch with Yahoo's workforce?
• Art Kern: On the board since January 1996. Used to own some radio stations. Gives a lot of money to good causes. Great — how about you do that full-time, Art?
• Ron Burkle: Politically connected former grocery-store owner.
• Gary Wilson: Used to run Northwest Airlines. Shouldn't that be a disqualifier to do anything?

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Google has expanded its Street View feature, which shows roadside photos taken from vehicles driven by underpaid workers, to include Paris, just in time for us to celebrate the independence we wouldn't have if some French guy named Charles Gravier wasn't still sore about getting slapped around by the English during the Seven Years War.