-- Find a debate-watching party on Obama's site. (Feature not available on McCain's site.) [Obama for America] -- Man-Kitty love article wins honorary Pulitzer from local Boston blog. The traditional prize money for this year's competition is replaced with a treasure chest of snark. [Pax Arcana] -- Harvard T station advertises an alien invasion. One blogger offers up our City Hall as part of the welcome package. [Local Spice] -- The truth behind the Wallstreet......

-- Boston has been ranked the 6th greenest city in the US—behind NYC! WTF? [Sustain Lane] -- Before he becomes annoyed with our local purple food critic, a recent Chicago-transplant reviews the Phantom Gourmet Food Festival. [MenuPages Blog: Boston] -- If you volunteer to plant trees in Mattapan tomorrow, you can go to a Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) concert later in the evening for free. Or you can think about planting a tree and......

-- Yesterday was "OneWebDay" to celebrate the Internet? At least we didn't have buy a card for anyone. [OneWebDay] -- In case you were wondering why all those kids in colored shirts with iPods started shooting each other in front of the Aquarium on Saturday, Chris has your answer. [The Chronicles of Chris] -- Here are 456 reasons to say "thanks to the fans" for the consecutive sellout record. Some are lame, many are redundant;......

-- If you don't know where to vote today, the Internet can tell you. [City of Boston, MA Elections Division] -- Looking for happy hours in your area? The best place to hang out for the over-college under-30 crowd? This Boston Girl's got your Guidespot. [Everyone Loves a Boston Girl] -- What happens when a lesbian/trans- musical duo spends the day at Quincy's August Moon Festival? Wackiness ensues. [Bad Asian Drivers] -- Unless your creepy......

-- The Globe spotlighted two local guys who've created a free online version of the "most badass kind of space checkers." [Quadradius] -- If playing space checkers puts you in the mood to die of dysentery, you can take a trip down memory trail with this online version of the classic Oregon-based game. [Librarian on the Run] -- A Cape Cod blogger is being sued for libel even though the offending passages have been......

-- Who needs MIT hackers when the MBTA Charlie system can fail on it's own? [Zeroday] -- World-record-breaking attempt or largest scale chain mail scam of all time? Send your business card to this Somerville teen and find out! [Wicked Local Blog] -- Gov. Patrick sat down at the keyboard in Denver for about 40 minutes of live-blogging to answer questions. [Blue Mass Group] -- Abraham Lincoln's version of the afterlife involves riding a......

-- When you're not getting your news from Bostonist, NewsCred might offer the best articles available on the Web. [Blogstring] -- Apparently the T has set up a radar gun to monitor the Green Line speed at Packard's Corner. Lo and behold, someone caught the trolley going almost twice the speed limit. [Universal Hub] -- Someone at the Smithsonian wonders which museum is better: the MFA or the the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She's......

-- How to move death fridges in East Boston: a photographic journey. [Fabulously Out There] -- Starving teens on Route 9 give one of the most honest "But Officer!" speeding excuses of all-time. [What Was I Thinking?] -- When you've got lemons, you make lemonade. And when you've got ten days of straight rain in Boston, you make yourself lightning bait. [Suldog] -- Quincy Market in slow-motion and freeze tag in Government Center: Chris was......

-- Justin Timberlake is casting for a new reality game show where you run around trying to find a ringing cell phone called "The Phone." If this show's a hit, you can be sure "Honey, Have You Seen My Car Keys?" will be next. [Loaded Gun] -- NKOTB might not be the only group fulfilling all your post-preteen reunion fantasies. It's time to get funky. [The Beantown Bloggery] -- When a fellow Bostonian is......

-- Bikers and drivers share the "love" in this "so Boston" signage. Good thing bike lanes are on the way. [Boston Biker] -- Someone took a picture of a rather specific T Alert on their phone. In LiveJournal fashion, the thread became a debate about humor and censorship. [LiveJournal b0st0n] -- Menino can't stand the noise, but can he stand the irony of barricading off the Freedom Trail in his pursuit of a bucket drum-free......

-- We can't find Whitey Bulger in Boston, but we have no problem spotting Whitey Squirrel. [Off on a Tangent.] -- Boston Beer Bike. Greaaaaat idea. [That Hotness] -- While Barack was getting buddy-buddy with Berlin, you may have noticed he calls out Boston drivers on global warming. [Universal Hub] -- Someone has really started an online petition to save the Newton Centre Starbucks. (Other locations are 0.2 and 0.8 miles away, but this......

-- Snarky blogger and coffee snob start "The Great Hipster War" with threats of arson and "dick-punching." Is Davis Square next? [Pax Arcana] -- Speaking of hipsters... meet the new hipster ironic fashion accessory: the baby. [Kid Millennial] -- Urban playgrounders Banditos Misterisos have announced their next event: A Revolutionary War-style water gun fight. Fifers wanted. [Banditos Misteriosos] -- When the average Bostonian loses his or her keys a landlord or a locksmith gets......

-- Ready for your dog to take the leap from I Can Has Hotdog to some serious doggy modeling? This may just be Fido's big break. [b0st0n] -- Speaking of doggies, Boston has won the heart of one local blogger by banning "dog sharing" in the city. [The JQ Lounge] -- In case anyone was wondering what happened with that Flash Mob Pillowfight in Central Square last week, apparently it turned into a not......

-- A promotional site for XM Baseball lets you send personalized phone calls from Big Papi and put your face on a virtual bobblehead. [Sirius XM News] -- See the awful results of professional playing with food: a giant bust of Hillary Clinton in hummus. [Boston MenuPages] -- There's a new aggregator on the block to find those undiscovered blogs. [blogstring] -- A Swampscott woman talks to ABC "World News" about blogging at 82-years-old. [Thoroughly......

-- You know it's not a real Boston blog entry if there isn't a post complaining about the T. This week in MBTA-related rants: Would a little walking hurt anyone? [Rageoline & Company] -- And while we're complaining, let's add the Globe's unfortunate title for a recent Obama article. [Hub Arts] -- Nose hair tweezing, toenail clipping, and public flossing, oh my! Cleanliness is next to grossliness when it comes to public grooming at......

-- Bostonist was emailed a photo of Celtics' Glen Davis getting all "Big Baby" with the Trophy and thought it was photoshopped. We were wrong. [Yahoo/Getty Images] -- It might be time for another parade: Sean Sears of Chicopee, MA clinched the Rock Paper Scissors League Championship on Sunday. Aaaand he gets to compete for the international title in Beijing during the Olympics! It's only a matter of time before the tiddilywinks title is ours!......

-- Bostonist/Gothamist makes the Vanity Fair Blogopticon chart as "news-oriented" but slightly "scurrilous." We are honored and will certainly try to pump up the snark. [Vanity Fair] -- Why try to hack your iPhone, when they're available in Chinatown? [The Chinatown Blog] -- There's a new Red Sox fansite with a forum, blog, stats, and AP news items. The Sons of Sam Horn will probably stay put, but the interface is cleaner than the......

Welcome to The Hub-o-sphere! Nothing on the internet is sacred for long and Bostonist is giving our beloved feature A Series of Tubes a well-deserved 2.0 makeover. We've got new contributers, a new name, and a brand new aquatic mascot, but we're still dedicated to bringing you the best from the Boston blogosphere every Tuesday. If you've got a hot Boston blog-to-watch tip, leave it in the comments. -- Jealous you didn't get a......

Bostonist loves stories that prove that the internet is useful for more than virtual poker and porn, and this one's a doozy. When legendary local band Boston lost their frontman, Brad Delp, to suicide last year, lifelong Boston fan Tommy DeCarlo wanted to pay tribute to how much the band's music meant to him. So his daughter created a MySpace page of him singing karaoke to a few of the band's hits. Somehow, through......

-- Brett Rosenberg, former guitar-slinger for local band The Rudds, moved to Nashville last year; but Brett must be hankering to do a Boston show in June because he's put himself on the auction block. What started out as $50 for a 45 minute set has mysteriously ballooned to $199.99, but he'll still play anywhere in a 50-mile radius --a perfect gift for Father's Day or your sister's bat mitzvah. You have until tonight......

--A contrarian perspective on the Red Sox rings--they're tacky. "Don't they look like something out of Flavor Flav's jewelry box? Isn't this awfully Yankee-esque?" [HubArts] --Bostonist loves the ice cream man and will defend the ice cream man from City Councilor Sal LaMattina in any situation. But we must agree that ice-cream-man music doesn't need "the hello a drag queen might give before following it up with 'bitch!'" [Third Decade] --The recent coke bust in......

--Is it possible that a $28 bottle of beer could be indeed "worth every penny"? Find out. [Boston Geek] --Speaking of beverages, after reading about the dubious beverage "Peanut Lolita," find out how to make "Beard Clippings." [Pax Arcana] --That guy who ate a Big Mac in one bite is back, and he just ate six Spike's Junkyard Dogs in one sitting. Oof. [Andy Eats] --How did Mission Hill become its own neighborhood, even though......

--Not something you want to hear from your cab dispatcher: "I'm gonna go take my break. Just going to jump off the Tobin Bridge. Be right back." [Everyone Loves a Boston Girl] --A fun review and even more fun photos (check out the one of the drummer for Frightened Rabbit) at the Sons & Daughters, Bodies of Water, and Frightened Rabbit show at the Middle East. [Shy Turnip] --One of our favorite local bloggers got......

--John Kerry has a funny bone. Who knew? [Blue Mass Group] --A cool history lesson about the old seals of Massachusetts towns. [Third Decade] --There's been an outbreak of Inexplicable Dread Toward Restaurant Lemon Slices, but a former bartender reassures us that it is most likely okay and that "Purell is not a condiment." [Pax Arcana] --Miss Von Schtoop articulates why online comment brawls make for such good reading. (Uh, please don't start a comment......

--What? "Oh Cruel World" is gone from the Weekly Dig? Bring it back! [Loaded Gun Boston] --Anyone else remember Orange Julius? [O'Malley on the Web] --The Dish loves MIT's new foldable, stackable car almost as much as we do. [The Dish] --Dumb new gym trend: Working out while drinking coffee at the same time. Why so dumb? A) Spillage. B) Dehydration. [On Common Ground] --Speaking of coffee shenanigans, ride the blue line and drink coffee......

--Is it really Al Gore Rumor Time? [Media Nation] --We hear there's some good pirate radio to be found on 88.5. [b0st0n] --An expression that sums up just how fed up with winter we all are. [Shamrag] --Barstool Sports thinks a lot of MILFs are at Whole Foods, or at least the one in Hingham. That must be the case, because the top fashion at our local Whole Foods is a look of sneering entitlement......

--Find out where to meet up on March 6 to ask Rep. Ed Markey (aka "Biz Markey") to support Cape Wind. [Blue Mass Group, more on Cape Wind from Bostonist] --Holy crap. This guy eats a Big Mac in one bite. Honest. Where is Morgan Spurlock when you need him? [Andy Eats via Menu Pages] --Following a more highbrow food track, Le Cordon Bleu is opening in Cambirdge on April 7. [Beantown Bloggery] --Apparently Barstool......

--Heating oil, which is already insanely expensive, costs less if you pay cash. Not that it will make you feel any better. [The Big Guy] --A Google map of foreclosures in Boston. [Boston Real Estate Blog] --Remembering what happened five years ago during the horrible fire at the Station nightclub in Rhode Island. [Platinum Elite] --Where to eat if you are living or working in Longwood. [Menu Pages] --Mega Man sighting! [Sushiesque] --Did you say......

--Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub was on NPR this week to discuss Boston Crime, which tracks violent crime on a Google map and allows people to comment on cases. A must-listen. They describe him as a "computer guy by day, crime chronicler by night." [NPR] --What's with the rats all over a recent edition of the Boston Globe? [Massachusetts Liberal] --Where to find pictures of Boston back in the day. [Beantown Bloggery] --Food sniglets! [Cave......

--Matt O'Malley offers a ward-by-ward breakdown of how the city of Boston voted in the Democratic primary. [Matt O'Malley] --Barstool Sports is calling for a boycott of the Boston Herald "except the Inside Track" because of sportswriter John Tomase's story about the Patriots videotaping the Rams. [Barstool Sports] --Massachusetts will be representing on reality TV when Big Brother airs--but will they be representing well? [Third Decade] --Valentine's is coming up, and one local website offers......