#SlowClapForCongress Trending On Twitter

People are really (understandably) angry about the debt ceiling negotiations and how badly they turned out.

So, in order to express their frustrations, a new website has popped up called slowclapforcongress.com. Internet-goers are using the website to post sarcastic, deadpan videos of themselves slow-clapping for Congress. Ouch!

Now, the trend has hit Twitter. Even actress Elizabeth Banks thinks it's funny!

Looks like you're gonna have to do better to impress the Internet, Congress. 

Tagg Romney Wants To Play Xbox With Chad Ochocinco

We already learned that John Kerry is a Chad Ochocinco fan.

Now, Mitt Romney's son, Tagg, has hopped on the Ochocinco welcome wagon.

While Chad is busy being lost in Massachussets, Tagg is hoping he'll find his way over to his house -- for some Xbox. 

TwitPic some adorable bro pictures if you guys do hang out, please!

President Obama Causes Congressional Website Crashes

President Obama urged Americans last night to contact their U.S. Congress members and tell them they need to reach a compromise on the debt ceiling negotiations.

So, what did Americans do? They hit the Internet -- and crashed Congressional sites, Hill leaders' sites, and even the House Democrats' Budget Committee website.

You can use this website to find out if your Congress member's website has actually crashed, or if you're just having Internet problems of your own.

Holy Hi-Tech: Pope Tweets, Uses iPad & Launches New Website

The Pope is going all technological on us.

He tweeted for the first time time (ever!) today, declaring the launch of his new website. He also looks pretty excited about his new iPad in the video, below.

Slow down, Pope! You don't want to get too tech-crazy on your first day!

Have You Heard Of The Mysterious New Harry Potter Website?

Get excited Harry Potter fans!

J.K. Rowling has a mysterious new website that has something to do with everyone's favorite boy wizard. 

Why's it a mystery? Because no one is sure what it's about.

The site -- www.pottermore.com -- simply features a purple backdrop with a couple of owls in the foreground with a message of "coming soon," and J.K.’s official youtube channel has a countdown to the announcement about the site on Thursday.

Theories abound on just what the site will be, though a rep for J.K. told has said it's neither a new book nor anything to do directly with the last Harry Potter movie, which hits theaters next month.

Personally, we don't really care about the specifics as long as we can use this as an excuse to wear our Harry Potter costumes to the office and pretend to have wizard duels with our official Harry Potter toy wands while the Glittarazzi higher ups (KAC and Ali) roll their eyes and yell at us to get back to work.

Expelliarmus!

How Lady Gaga Broke The Internet

Kids today. They're just obsessed with that Lady Gaga.

They buy her music, watch her videos, go to her concerts, and dress like her. ... Seriously, where does one get a Kermit the Frog jacket?

Gaga fans also apparently love a good deal. So much, in fact, so that they’ll take down one of the biggest websites on the Internet to save $15.

It seems that when Lady Gaga released her new album, Born This Way, yesterday, she offered a digital copy via Amazon.com for the low, low price of 99 cents for one day only. 

Well, things went better than expected and fans flocked to the site for the deal -- so many, in fact, that Amazon's servers overloaded.

Eventually, things got sorted out.

Oh, and since Amazon rents out its servers to other major websites, it created a wide swath of general slowness in loading across the web.

Jeez, Lady Gaga, way to ruin the Internet for the rest of us.

New Perfume Will Help You Seduce People ... Via The Internet

As if our love for technology couldn't get any weirder, now we have the means to permanently secure a mate through social media with the new "Social Media Fragrance" Erox.

The fragrance was created by CrowdGather, along with help from Human Pheromone Sciences, Inc., and contains synthetic human pheromones.

Erox is "proven to increase feelings of arousal, excitement, social warmth and friendliness in both female and male users" and is meant for members of both sexes.

The entire campaign for the fragrance will happen over social media networks, so keep an eye out around Facebook and Twitter for the scent that will get you that "Canadian girlfriend" you've always dreamed of.

Website Helps You Find Your Stolen Camera

It's sometimes hard to remember that we live in the 21st century. There are no flying cars or hoverboards, like in Back To The Future II.

It's actually quite disappointing. 

But then, something amazingly cool comes along and reminds us that we live in 2011.

Like StolenCameraFinder.com.

Apparently, when you take a photo with a digital camera, it imprints a unique serial number on the picture file that stays with it. So, if your camera gets stolen, you can then upload any digital photo taken with it to StolenCameraFinder.com, which will troll the Internet looking for any other photos uploaded that feature that same unique serial number. Then, you can catch your camera thief.

That's so cool that we kind of want our camera to get stolen so we can track it down using the site.

OK, not really.

The Smithsonian Hates Fun Fake Ads

We were kind of psyched when we heard there were some supposed ads for the Smithsonian, running under the "Historically Hardcore" tagline.

Could it've been that that the official government education and research institute, which is also the world's largest museum and research complex, wasn't as stuffy as we'd believed?

Nope.

Turns out the ads were a portfolio project by a couple of students from Atlanta's Creative Circus. Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler to be more specific.

On her blog, Jenny, who did the art, explains that of the goal was to create a project that would "reach high school and college students, to try and engage them in a subject that many of them find extremely boring," and "encourage them to learn more about people who they might have disregarded as stiff and dull."

When the fake ads started gaining notoriety on the interwebs, Jenny started getting phone calls from major media outlets. Slow news day and all -- it's not like we bombed Libya or anything -- we decided to look into the matter, too. 

Jenny said that, despite their WWW popularity, the Smithsonian was demanding that she remove their logo from the ads, which now have a generic "museums" design at the bottom.

Way to be a buzz kill, Smithsonian.

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Psst ... You can click here for a full-size version of the above ad, and here and here for two more.